Faces of the 12th Virginia Infantry ("Petersburg Regiment"): Augustus S. Andrews, Wounded at Bradshaw's Farm

Caption:  Augustus Spencer Andrews 

Credit:  John Early Andrews, “Augustus Spencer Andrews,” findagrave.com, May 26, 2017

On April 30, 1862, Augustus Spencer Andrews enlisted as a private in the 12th Virginia's Company K, the Archer Rifles, at Craney Island near the mouth of Elizabeth River near Norfolk.  He was born December 21, 1841 in Chesterfield County, Virginia, across the Appomattox River from Petersburg.  The Archer Rifles had been raised in May 1861 at Petersburg and were said to include every kind of man "from a Methodist preacher down to a horse thief."  On May 8, 1864, at the beginning of the fighting around Spotsylvania, Andrews suffered a slight gunshot wound to the head at Bradshaw's Farm.  He surrendered with the Petersburg Regiment at Appomattox.  He died January 29, 1922.