61st Virginia Infantry
Company A
Jackson Grays
| CONFEDERATE MONUMENT - This
picture of Confederate soldiers, snapped in 1905 at the unveiling
of the Confederate Monument at the Pleasant Grove Baptist Church in Hickory, has been obtained by church officials in an effort to find out more about the historic monument. Mrs. Ralph Smithson, Route 2, Chesapeake, has spent the last year searching the records for additional records. She has identified all of the gentlemen in the picture except one. All are members of Jackson Grey's regiment from Lower Norfolk County. The men in the picture were soldiers in the regiment when it camped for ten days in 1861 at the present site of the monument. From left to right are Dr. H. S. Etheridge, Carey Foreman, J. N. Wood, W. A. West, J. W. Creekmore, Alex Lee, Leroy West, Capt. William H. Stewart, Tom West, Caleb Hodges and the man in the big white hat on the right is still unknown. Published in the Chesapeake Post, July 8, 1965, Chesapeake, VA. |
