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Known in Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia as “The Boy Company,” this prominent battery had an average member age of 25 but included several lads between 14 and 19. Under Captain William Parker, it built a strong record on many of the Civil War’s greatest battlefields, and some of the men who spent the final months of the war here had survived the carnage at Second Manassas (Bull Run), Sharpsburg (Antietam), and Gettysburg. Private David A. Brown helped give the company its nickname; he enlisted in the spring of 1862 just before his 16th birthday, served throughout the war, was wounded twice, captured twice, died in 1918, and was buried in Richmond’s Hollywood Cemetery.
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