Company E, 38th Regiment, Virginia Infantry, United States Civil War

Date: 30 May 1861 to 1865
Location: Virginia

Company E of the 38th Virginia Infantry, also known as Cabell's Guards, came into service on May 28, 1861. Named for the first commander, Captain Joseph Robert Cabell, this company was organized in Danville, on the border of Pittsylvania County and North Carolina.

Sources include FamilySearch database(1860 census, and United States Civil War soldiers index), pittsylvaniacountyhistory.com and "Confederate Soldiers of Pittsylvania County & Danville", Mike K. Williams, 1988.

A partial roster of soldiers assigned to the company is:

John O. Adkins

Allen C. Anglea

Henry S. Ashby

William F. Ashby

Obediah L. Atkins

Robert S. Baugh

David E. Bays

Hillery Bolton

John T. Brown

William L. Brown

Benjamin Harrison Burks

Joseph Burks

William R. Clayton

Thomas Edward Crane

William R. Crawley

Creed O. Davis

John Thomas Davis

Larkin Davis

George W. Dillard

Henry Jackson Dillard

Robert M. Dillard

John K. Elliott

William Anthony Elliott

George C. Emmerson

Joseph B. Ferrell

Robert R. Gaines

George Henry Gosney

George William Gravely

John Green

Beverly B. Hall

John O. Hall

George W. Harris

William P. Harris

Thomas W. Lovelace

William H. Mann

Robert Jordan Motley

James W. Ragsdale

James P. Rice

Reuben Ricketts

John H. Robinson

Armistead F. Shackelford

James T. Shackelford

Francis S. Shackleford

William A. Shackleford

Robert M. Shelton

George H. Sutherlin

Creed Tanner Thomas

William N. P. Thomas

David Augustine Tyree

Thomas Martin Tyree

William H. Voss

Thomas A. Warf

Linnaeus DuPuy Watkins

Joel L. Willis