These
compiled names of the 182 individuals listed below are known to have served in the 50th Virginia, Company D during
the Civil War. Undoubtedly due to incompleteness or absentia of records there may be some omissions or
possible errors. Where two ranks are given, the first listed is the mustered in rank and then followed
by their last known rank at end of their Confederate service.
Since mustering into service
the company would be commanded by three captains beginning with Lynville J. Perkins in 1861, followed by Thomas Jefferson
Baldwin in early 1863, and lastly by James L. Bishop in early 1864 to the conclusion of hostilities at
the end of the war, April 12th, 1865 when the 50th Virginia Regiment disbanded.
According to records there were known to be that at least 1,734 men that served in the 50th Virginia Regiment
of all companies. Men killed in action or died of wounds totaled at least 148, disease killing at least
116, and another 33 died of unknown causes. Five died in accidents and 125 are known to have died in Union
prisons. At least 290 were known to have been wounded in action. With at least 290 men
that were known to have been wounded in action added to the 427 men that died in service in the regiment, the total comprises
over 40% of the casualties of the 50th Virginia Regiment experienced throughout the war. If
one was to also include the amount of men missing in action and those absent by desertion – whether it be by the conscripted,
enlisted, or officers alike – and further adding into the fact that the 125 that perished in Union prisons were out
of over 500 that were being held, that total percentage of loss in regimental strength rises to nearly 50%.
By the end of the war during the surrender of Robert E. Lee’s Army of North Virginia at Appomattox Courthouse in April
of 1865 very few of the 50th Virginia Regiment was there. As a matter of fact the total of officers
and soldiers in the entire regiment present and able for duty only numbered around 100 men – hardly enough men for one
full strength company. It is noted, however, members of Company D were certainly included in that number.
John Adams – Pvt.
Mastin Adams – Pvt.
Elbert T. Anderson – Cpl.
Spencer
M. Anderson – Pvt.
Stephen F. Anderson – Pvt.
James Arnold – Pvt.
Morgan
Fielden Baker – 2nd Lt.
Hiram Baldwin
– Pvt.
John Baldwin – Pvt.
Noah C. Baldwin – Pvt.
Thomas
Jefferson Baldwin – Capt.
William M. Baldwin – Pvt.
Joseph Ball – Pvt.
Franklin
Barton – Pvt.
Nathan L. Barton – Pvt. / Cpl.
James L. Bishop – Pvt. / Capt.
Calvin
Blevins – Pvt.
Harrison Blevins – Pvt.
Noah Blevins – Pvt.
Richard
Brown – Pvt.
George William Burns – Pvt.
William H. Caldwell – Pvt.
James
M. Calloway – Pvt.
Stephen Comer – Pvt.
Teril Cox – Pvt.
Jacob
Robert Cress – Pvt.
J.W. Davenet – Pvt.
Elisha Davis – Pvt.
Henderson Davis – Pvt.
John F. Davis
– Pvt.
Jonathan Davis – Pvt.
Robert Davis – Pvt.
Solomon
Davis – Pvt.
Troy Davis – Pvt.
G.W. Dillon – Pvt.
Marion
Dillon – Pvt.
Franklin Dollinger – Pvt.
Aquilla M. Draughn – Pvt.
Henderson Duncan – Pvt.
John
D. Duncan – Pvt.
Calvin Farmer – Pvt.
Isaac Farmer – Pvt.
John
Franklin Gore – Pvt.
William J. Gore – 1st
Lt.
Edwin Dudley Greer – Pvt.
John Freeland Greer – Pvt.
Conrad
Grubb – 2nd Lt.
Mitchell Grubb – Cpl.
James Halsey – Pvt.
Andrew
Hash – Pvt.
Byron B. Hash – Pvt.
Jackson B. Hash – Pvt.
James
M. Hash – Pvt.
Jerome C. Hash – Pvt.
Joseph B. Hash – Pvt.
Robert
Hash – Pvt.
Wesley Hash – Pvt.
William Henderson – Pvt.
Jeremiah
Hopkins – Pvt.
Marion Jackson – Pvt.
Elijah P. Johnson – Pvt.
George
Washington Jones – Pvt.
Granville W. Jones – Pvt.
John B. Jones – Pvt. / 4th Sgt.
James
Martin – Pvt.
W.A. Matheny – Pvt.
Wesley Wade McClellan – Pvt.
William
H. McGrady – Pvt.
E.A. Miller – 1st.
Lt.
Calvin Madison Mink – Pvt.
David F. Mink – Pvt.
Hiram
R. Mink – Pvt.
Jacob T. Mink – Pvt.
James Owen Mink – Pvt.
Wiley
F. Mink – Pvt.
William H. Mink – Cpl.
Thomas F. Mitchell – 2nd Lt.
William
D. Mitchell – Pvt.
Ezekiel Morgan – Pvt.
N.B. Morgan – Pvt.
Pierce
Mullen – Pvt.
Joseph Mullin – Pvt.
N.J. Newton – Pvt.
Martin Noonkester – Pvt.
James
Osborn – Pvt.
Noah Osborne – Pvt.
Osborn Kesterson Parsons – Pvt.
James
Patrick – Pvt.
Daniel Peak – Pvt.
John A.
Peak – Pvt.
Noah Peak – Sgt.
Uriah R. Peak – Pvt.
Washington Troy Peak – Pvt.
Wilborn Peak – Pvt.
Andrew R. Penington – Pvt.
Andrew Jackson Penington – Pvt.
Clayborn
Harvey Penington – Pvt.
David Penington – Sgt.
Elijah Ansel Perkins – Pvt.
Emory
Thompson Perkins – Pvt.
Fleming T. Perkins –Pvt.
Hiram J. Perkins – Pvt.
Ira
Gordon Perkins – Pvt.
James C.A. Perkins – Pvt.
Jerod G. Perkins – Pvt.
John
M. Perkins – Pvt.
Leander N. Perkins – Cpl.
Lynville Jackson Perkins – Capt. / Major
Orvil
M. Perkins – Pvt.
Robert H. Perkins – Pvt.
Stephen G. Perkins – Pvt.
William Troy Perkins – Pvt.
John M. Phipps – Pvt.
James
Alexander Pickle – Pvt.
Joseph H. Pickle – Color
Sgt. / 1st Lt.
Samuel C. J. Plummer – Pvt.
David Price – Pvt.
Ambrose
Pugh – 1st Lt.
James T. Pugh – 1st
Sgt.
John M. Pugh – Cpl.
Mitchell Martin Pugh – Sgt.
Robert
Pugh – Sgt.
William Eli Pugh – Pvt.
William F. Pugh – Pvt.
George
Washington Quillen – Pvt.
Marion Quillen – Pvt.
Abram Reedy – Pvt.
Andrew
Jackson Reedy – Cpl.
Andrew Reedy – Pvt.
Christopher Columbus Reedy – Pvt.
Elias
Reedy – Pvt.
James M. Reedy – Pvt.
James Wesley Reedy – Pvt.
Solomon
C. Reedy – Pvt.
William B. Reedy – Pvt.
William Reedy – Pvt.
King
M. Roop – Pvt.
William Roop – Pvt.
William C. Ross – Pvt.
Thompson
Rutherford – Pvt.
John W. Sage – Pvt.
John K. Scott – Pvt.
William
M. Sebastian – Pvt.
C.D. Sells – Pvt.
Daniel J. Sells – Pvt.
George
Washington Sells – Pvt.
William Franklin Sells –
Pvt.
Archibald Sexton – Pvt.
Campbell Sexton – Pvt.
Clark Sexton – Pvt.
George
Washington Sexton – Pvt.
Andrew Jackson Sheets –
Pvt.
Frederick Sheets –
Pvt.
James P. Sheets – Pvt.
James Sheets – Sgt.
John
Harvey Sheets – Pvt.
Samuel L. Sheets – Pvt.
Nathan Shelton – Pvt.
William
Smyth – Pvt.
Robert A. Spencer – Pvt.
Elihu P. Stamper – Pvt.
Francis
Marion Strange – Pvt.
Francis A.B. Stringer –
Pvt.
James Sullivan – Pvt.
Jordan G. Sullivan – Pvt.
Lewis
Sullivan – Pvt.
N. Sutton – Pvt.
Pheocian L. Thompkins – Pvt.
Robert
L. Thompkins – Pvt.
Robert S. Thompkins – Pvt.
William Walker – Pvt.
Loftin
N. Walton – Pvt.
Thomas P. Walton – Pvt.
Wiley Walton – Pvt.
Rolen
T. Washington – Pvt.
Simeon Watson – Pvt.
William Weaver – Pvt.
Silas
Montgomery Weiss – Pvt.
R. Yeatman – Pvt.
Daniel York – Pvt.
Levi
York – Pvt.
Andrew M. Young – Pvt.
Source Material:
Much of the information herein is derived from the book titled “50th Virginia Infantry” by John
D. Chapla, a part of “The Virginia Regimental Histories Series”. Published 1997 by H.E. Howard,
Inc.