Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: The Surry Heavy Artillery Company D, lOra Battalion. THIS command was composed of men who resided on the borders of Prince George and Surry counties, but none of the Prince George men have been included in our list of names. The company owed its origin largely to the exertions of Mr. William Allen, the wealthy proprietor of Clennont and other large estates in the vicinity. On its organization, May 10, 1861, Mr. Allen was elected captain, with James E. Gray and Charles Shirley Harrison, of Prince George, and John Thomas Williams, of Surry, as first, second and third lieutenants. Jamestown Island, then owned by Captain Allen, was selected for a camp and the post was strongly fortified, Captain Allen setting many of his own slaves to work erecting breastworks. The company remained at the island through the summer of 1861 and until the evacuation of Norfolk in May, 1862. On account of being stationed so long at Jamestown, the command came to be known as the Jamestown Heavy Artillery, and it was regarded as virtually a Surry company, its captain and more than half the men being from Surry county. Other commands having been stationed at the island during the summer of 1861, a battalion was organized, which was known as the 10th Virginia Battalion of heavy artillery, and Captain Allen’s company became Company D of that command. Captain Allen was made the major of the new organization and Lieut. C. Shirley Harrison was promoted to the captaincy of Company D, and Mr. A. P. Bohannan, of Surry, was elected to fill the vacant lieutenancy. On the evacuation of Norfolk, May, 1862, the 10th Battalion was withdrawn from Jamestown and stationed at Battery No. 2, near the river turnpike, Richmond City Defenses, where it remained until the abandonment of Richmond, April, 1865….