A Complete Roster of This Gallant Confederate Organization.

An issue of the Petersburg Express, published September 14, 1861, gives the roll of the Sussex Light Dragoons, a number of the members of which are still living, some in this city. The roster is as follows:

Officers
Captain, B. W. Belsches.
First Lieutenant, G. H. Dillard.
Second Lieutenant, Wm. N. Blow.
Third Lieutenant, P. S. Parker.
First Sergeant, H. O. Moyler.
Second Sergeant, T. A. Dillard.
Third Sergeant, E. T. Thornton.
Fourth Sergeant, T. L. Johnson.
First Corporal, F. L. Vellines.
Second Corporal, J. E. Barker.
Third Corporal, T. E. Dillard.
Fourth Corporal, G. S. Rives.

Privates
J. D. Atkins
T. W. Adkins
Wm. L. Adkins
A. M. Adkins
B. R. Birdsong
Henry Birdsong
A. S. Birdsong
S. J. Birdsong
J. A. Bishop
H. C. Briggs
Andrew Briggs
R. R. Bains
O. H. Baird
E. T. Chappell
J. L. Chappell
Wm. D. Chappell
J. R. Chappell
D. A. Cocke
J. A. Cotton
J. J. Dillard
W. H. Dillard
J. H. Dobie
A. T. Dobie
R. M. Dobie
R. L. Dobie
A. H. Ellis
G. W. Gilliam
Robert J. Gwaltney
Wm. H. Gwaltney
B. F. Harrison (commissary)
R. K. Harrison
T. J. Harrison
J. H. Harrison
R. S. Harrison
J. W. Harrison
Trezvant Harrison
B. L. Hargrave
W. F. Hansberger
James B. Harrell
L. D. Holt
J. H. Jones
J. R. Jones
L. E. Jordan
H. G. Kelly
Samuel Little
Jesse Little
W. H. Marable (forage master)
J. M. H. Marable
T. S. Morgan
J. Edward Moyler
F. D. Nibbett
J. R. Norris
J. A. Parker
Wm. H. Parker
R. A. Parker
J. S. Parker
J. W. Parker
J. M. Presson
Nathaniel Raines
B. F. Raines
G. E. Rives
W. B. Scott
J. D. Spain
P. Thorp
R. G. West
J. L. White
R. W. White
A. D. White
H. B. Walker
George Walker
A. C. Winston
W. W. Woodson

The paper from which the above was taken is in the possession of Captain George J. Rogers, of this city.



Source: Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume XXVII, Edited by R. A. Brock, Richmond, Virginia, 1899