The Comanches: A History of White's Battalion, Virginia Cavalry

by Frank M. Myers

Late First Lieut. Co. A, White’s Battalion.

WM. F. DOWDELL,

Late Captain Co. C, Thirty-fifth Va. Cav.

J. MORT. KILGOUR,

Late Capt. and A.Q.M., Thirty-fifth Va. Cav.

PREFACE.

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To the Members of the Thirty-Fifth Virginia Cavalry:

The following pages have been prepared under many and great difficulties, and while they exhibit the history of the command we were so proud of in the dark days of the war for States Rights and the old Constitution, they are very far from[from] presenting a full history of our Battalion.

Almost all the papers relating to the operations of the “Comanches,” whether belonging to the field and staff or to company officers, were lost at the surrender of the army, in consequence of which I have been compelled to draw nearly all that is recorded from my own memory, assisted materially by Col. White, in the account of the “battle of Brandy Station,” and of the raids in Fairfax and Loudoun in 1863.