1861 July 3 Head Qrs 19th Regt. Camp Strange, Centerville [Virginia]

Asst ComS [Commissary] Rice G. Bailey has leave to pass the sentinels
& pickets from this post to Manassas on his
way to Charlottesville, to which place he has
leave to pass & return free of charge with a horse
on his return; and he is to report for duty at this
post on the 5th inst.

Jno. B. Strange
Comdg

By order of Col. Cocke
Jno B Cocke
A.A. Adjt Genl.

John Bowie Strange, 1823-1862, was one of the first graduates of the Virginia Military Institute. At the time of his enlistment in the 19th Virginia, he was principal of the Albemarle Military Academy. Killed in action at South Mountain, Maryland, Septemnber 14, 1862, he is buried in Maplewood Cemetery, Charlottesville, Va.
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