Faces from the 12th Virginia Infantry, the Petersburg Regiment: Edgar Longden Brockett

Prior to Virginia's secession, several of the companies that would belong to the 12th Virginia Infantry, the Petersburg Regiment, in the Virginia and Confederate services were under the command of Col. Edgar Longden Brockett, a store owner in the 39th Regiment, Virginia State Militia.  On July 1, 1861, Brockett became the 12th Virginia's major.  In May, 1862, Brockett was replaced as the 12th's major by one of the captains he had commanded while colonel of the 39th.  Like all but one of the officers who did not stand for or win election at that time, Brockett left the Petersburg Regiment.  That October he applied for a clerkship in the Second Auditor's Office of the Confederate States Treasury Department.  In 1887, he died in Alexandria, Virginia, where he had been born in 1921.

Caption:  Edgar Longden Brockett

Credit:  Flo Hemming, “Edgar Longden Brockett,” findagrave.com, May 25, 2017