2nd Virginia Cavalry

Company A - Roster

The "Clay Dragoons"

Company A, the "Clay Dragoons" from Bedford County, was organized in 1857. They enrolled at Liberty on May 11 and were sworn into State service at Lynchburg on May 13. Captain William R. Terry, a V. M. I. Graduate, led this troop.

Alderson, Thomas J.
Allen, Joseph H.
Anderson, William Edward
Arrington, John H. "Jack"
Arrington, William H.
Auld, Charles S.
Balisle, Lee
Ball, F. H.
Ballard, Claiborne Johnson
Ballard, F.H.
Beale, James A.
Bell, Francis Henry
Bell, William Hamner
Bower, Charles Anderson
Bower, Charles Rufus
Bower, James Rufus
Bridges, Hardage
Brown, Albert
Brown, Samuel Edwin
Buford, Julius Blackburn
Caddle, John A.
Campbell, William A.
Carnefix, Robert W.
Carnes, M.
Chancey, John W.
Clark, Isham
Clay, Calhoun Green
Clay, Charles E.
Clay, Dewitt Clinton - transferred from Co. B 1/12/62
Clay, Junius Paul
Clemens, Charles R.
Clemens, John W.
Clinkinbeard, John Lunsford
Cobbs, Thomas
Cochran, Clark
Cofer, John C.
Cofer, Richard Hobson
Coleman, Nicholas A. "Nick"
Coleman, Richard
Coleman, William C.
Creasey, Charles H.
Cundiff, Grigg T.
Cundiff John Fletcher
Davidson, William
Davis, Thomas Edward - quartermaster Sgt
Dickinson, Henry Clay - Captain
Dickinson, John Quincey
Dooley, A. J.
Dooley, Caleb B.
Douglas, Thomas V. - hospital steward
Drewry, Giles B.
Elliott, Milton
Everett, Zachariah William
Ewing, Albert Mitchell
Falls, George W.
Ferrell, Benjamin A. - Sgt
Franklin, John H.
Franklin, John L
Freeman, Robert - Sgt
Freeman, Stephen M.
Freeman, William Thomas
Fulks, John F. - Sgt. Major
Fuqua, George Whitfield - Sgt
Fuqua, Martin Luther
Gibson, James
Gill, Charles H.
Gills, Asa Bellfield
Good, James H.
Goode, John, Jr.
Goode, Reginald Heber
Goode, Thomas R.
Hagerman, Samuel L.
Harris, Charles
Harris, Frank
Harris, J.G.
Harris, James William
Harris, John A.
Harris, Thomas Edwin
Hatcher, Abner Uriah - 3rd Lt
Hatcher, Charles Wilson
Hatcher, Doc
Hatcher, Henry A.
Hatcher, James Wellington
Hatcher, John A.
Hatcher, Joseph W.
Hendricks, William J.
Hodges, Benjamin W.
Hodges, James
Hopkins, Benjamin Watkins
Hopkins, James H. - Sgt
Hopkins, John A.
Howard, Thomas H. - Cpl
Huddleston, Peter Lee
Huddleston, William Camden
Hurt, David L.
Hurt, John Frank
Hurt, Robert C.
Izzard, Walter - 1st Lt
Jefress, Joseph B.
Jeter, Jesse R.
Jeter, Robert Hall - 3rd Sgt
Johnson, J. R.
Jones, Charles P.
Jones, George Morgan
Jones, Joseph A. - 5th Sgt
Jones, Robert A.
Joplin, Bennett F.
Joplin, Ferdinand Martin
Joplin, James Benjamin
Joplin, John C.
Joplin, Josiah B.
Joplin, Josiah C.
Joplin, William Bennett
Kearns, Michael
Kelso, Robert Hugh - 2nd Lt
Kessell, G.
Kinney, Bryant
Lakes, John William
Lay, John W.
Little, John H.
Locks, John W.
Logwood, Charles E.
Lowry, Cephas V.
Lowry, Charles B.
Lowry, John M. - 2nd Sgt
Lowry, John W. - 1st Lt
Lowry, Nelson M
Lucas, Calvin
Lucas, Caswell
Lucas, Creed
Luck, Edward William
Luck, George Simmeon
Luck, Julian M.
Luck, Marshall Anderson
Marce, W. P.
McAllister, John H.
McDaniel, Walker
McGhee, William Green
Mead, John W.
Mead, Oliver G.
Mead, Robert
Mead, William
Mennis, William C. - 1st Sgt
Michaels, Samuel W.
Miller, Jesse H. - 5th Sgt
Mitchell, Burwell D.
Mitchell, Charles E.
Mitchell, D.E.
Mitchell, Edward Dudley
Mitchell, R. D.
Mock, James H.
Moreland, Edward
Moreland, H. - Cpl
Moseley, Bennett Williamson
Moseley, Henry Winston
Moseley, William Henry
Motley, John W.
Meyers, George N
Nance, William Pleasant "Pless"
Nelms, Charles Dandridge
Nelms, James E.
Nelms, Samuel Preston
Nelms, Thomas Preston
Nelson, Samuel P.
Newman, Robert C.
Nichols, George Augustus - 3rd Sgt
Noell, B. D.
Noell, Cornelius Fonrose
Noell, J. J.
Noell, James Monroe
, Noell, John C.
Noell, John Richard
Noell, Marcus B.
Noell, Milan B.
Noell, Thomas Benjamin
Noell, Thomas Edward II
Noell, William Lafayette
Noell, William Leonard
Noell, William P.
Noell, William Thomas
Norcross, Samuel
Otey, S.
Otey, William D.
Overstreet, Nicholas
Overstreet, Richard D.
Owen, Nicholas W., Jr.
Page, Thomas Mann
Poindexter, James W. - transferred to Co. F 11/13/62
Pointer, William
Pollard, James H.
Pollward, John M.
Pollard, Samuel C.
Powell, G. E.
Powell, John E.
Price, J. W.
Richardson, Clinton C.
Saunders, A. W.
Saunders, Daniel J - transferred to Co. G 9/22/62
Saunders, John Lowndes - Cpl
Saunders, John M.
Saunders, John M. - transferred to Co. G 9/22/62
Schultz, John
Scott,
Smith, Robert M.
Smith, William G.
Spencer, John M.
Sublett, Thomas C.
Terrell, John
Terry, William Richard - Capt
Thomas, Rufus N.
Thomas, Samuel M.
Thomas, William Rufus
Thompson, David E.
Thompson S.
Tinsley, William Henry
Tucker, J.
Turpin, Caswell
Turpin, William Lambert
Wade, William H.
Walker, B. O.
Watson, Benjamin P.
Watson, Benjamin R.
Watson, Barnett Owen
Watson, Barnett Owen - different person from above
Watson, Cabell F.
Watson, James Albert
Watson, Owen Burnett
Watson, W. D.
Watson, William
Watson, William Edgar
Watson, Wyatt J.
Watts, John H. N.
West, Robert McKean
West, Thomas Scott - 2nd Lt
West, Van Buren
Wheat, Forest Davis
Wheat, Levi Curtis
White, Hensley D.
White, Julius
Wilkerson, Holcombe C.
Wilkerson, William Owen - 1st Cpl
Williams, E. B.
Williamson, William Callohill
Wilson, John - 2nd Lt
Wilson, John - different person from above
Wilson, Robert C. - 1st Lt
Willson, William C.
Wilson, William L.
Wingfield, William A - 4th Cpl
Winn, Thomas Benjamin
Wood, Harvey Lewis "Harry" - 4th Sgt
Woolfolk, Albert G. - 3rd Cpl
Wright, James A.
Wright, James E.
Wright, Joel Wilson
Wright, John Mays
Wright, John W.
Wright, Thomas C.
Wright, William Matthew
Youst, Jacob
Youst, Lamich