22nd Virginia Cavalry

Elisha John Dodson was my GG Grandfather. He was in the 22nd Va Calvary, Co. K. He was wounded in the hand and foot by a bullet, and also received a wound in his side from a cannon shell fragment at (according to family history) the Battle of Seven Pines, near Richmond Va. He is buried on the old family farm near Ferrum, Va.

Samuel served as a 2nd Corporal in Col. Reese Bowen 22nd Virginia Cavalry which was attachted to J.E.B. Stuarts Cavalry Division. Samuel was the son of Thomas and Rachel Gibson of Russell County, Virginia. (Flats section of Moccasin Ridge in Southwest, Virginia) Samuel's two brothers: Flavius Marion Gibson, served with Co C 37th Regmt Virginia Infantry, died a P.O.W. at Pointlook out, Md Aug. 24th, 1864. William Ward Gibson served with Augusta Co., Staunton Artillery. Both Samuel and William survived the war and went on to become prosperous Tanners and Farmers. (in spite of the so called reconstruction years)

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Cpl. Robbins Previously served in the 37th Virginia Infantry and the Virginia State Line Rangers. Captured at Moorefield, West Virginia on August 7, 1864. Taken to Camp Chase, Ohio and later transferred to Point Lookout, Maryland where he was paroled on March 18, 1865.

Squire, son of John and Jane Thompson, and husband of Susannah Hart Thompson, enlisted in Co. D, 22nd VA Cav. after serving in the local 72nd militia. He survived the war, raising his 5 children w. Susannah born before the war (including my ggrandma Julia Ann Thompson, who married her cousin Fullen Thompson), and after Susannah's death, had 4 more children born in the 1870s and 1880s w. his second wife Mary (Cosby, Catherine, Virginia and Charles Thompson). Our family knows nothing of what became of Squire Thompson after 1890, as he moved back and forth between Russell Co. VA and Roane Co. WV. An unusual first name in a family prone to such.

Brother of William Kilgore. Genealogy records indicate he died in 1864. Southwest Virginia's 22nd Virginia Cavalry, one of the last regular Confederate regiments raised in Virginia during the War for Southern Independence.

Son of Charles Kilgore & Mary Gray, born Copper Creek, Scott Co.Va. Double-first Cousins served in the Union 39th Ky. Company E - Captain Reese M. Baldwin's Company (originally Captain William M. Baldwin's Company) formerly served in Baldwin's Squadron Virginia Cavalry or Partisan Rangers. The original company was mustered into Confederate service on August 4, 1862 from Washington and Russell Counties.

Enlisted on 8/8/1863 in Tazewell County, Virginia. Present on 10/31/1863. Absent, WIA before 8/31/1864. Disabled in the fall of 1863 by a severe gunshot wound through the left arm at Moorefield, Virginia.

Private Company F. ' Bowen's Mounted Rifles'. Born 4/13/1827 in Tazewell County, Va. Died 4/29/1906.

GGGGrandfather Buried at the Necessary Cemetary, Tannersville Va. Tazewell co Va.

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Eldridge died as a P.O.W. in Camp Chase Colombus, Ohio prison Dec. 21 or 25 1864. He was born in Tazwell co, Va.

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Served Co G, 22nd VA Calvary on August 1, 1863. Served 1 1/2 years to the end of the Civil War. Brother to William Riley Stricklin of the Co. C, 24th VA INF who died in the war.

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This man was a soldier, in the Confederate army, who is my ancester, on my mother''s side. He was from Braxton County, VA (Now WVA). He survived the war.

Captured at Harpers ferry VA @Oct 3rd 1864