63rd Virginia Infantry, Confederate States Army


Organization
Memoir of Calvin Livesay
Roster

Organization of the Regiment

Recruiting Poster for the 63rdThe 63rd Regiment was organized May 24, 1862, with 10 companies, A to K, all enlisted for 3 years or the duration of the war. These companies were raised under an order from the Secretary of War, April 9, 1862 to Major John J. McMahon. McMahon was rewarded by being made Colonel of the 63rd in May, when the regiment was formally organized at Abingdon in Washington County, Virginia. Colonel McMahon was succeeded by Lieutenant Colonel David C. Dunn. Major James M. French, who was later promoted to Colonel, succeeded Colonel Dunn and the 63rd ended the war with Captain (later Lieutenant Colonel) Connally H. Lynch in command. Lynch was also commander of the 54th Battalion, a consolidation of the 54th and 63rd Virginia Infantry regiments. The regiment was apparently reorganized January 17, 1863. At that time, the first Company I was dissolved and the second one created. Members of Co. I(1) were discharged to join other companies. The Second Company I took many of the Carroll County residents of Company G and a few others and organized a company. Company C, a Grayson County Company gave up 36 soldiers to go into fill out the now reduced Company G, and bring it back up to strength. Note the table at the end of this chapter for statistics on enlistment locations.

Regimental Officers (Field & Staff)
John J. McMahon, Colonel
David Campbell Dunn, Lieutenant Colonel
James M. French, Major, Colonel
Connally Lynch, Captain, Lieutenant Colonel
William C. Bramblett, Surgeon
James H. Dunn, Surgeon
Robert P. Hunt, Assistant Surgeon
John C. Pendleton, Assistant Surgeon
G. T. Gray, Chaplain
Alexander Anderson, Adjutant
John W. Farmer, Adjutant
A. J. Dunn, Commissary Officer (Captain)
David Denton Hull, ACS
A. F. Henderson, QM Captain
J. M. Phillippi, Color Sergeant
Emmett B. Vance, Ensign
James K. Davis, Sergeant Major

Regimental Musters for the 63rd were made: