Andrew Paine CIRCLE

Another source says middle initial "T" and buried in Oxford Presbyterian Cemetery in Rockbridge Co.,Va. Douthat's Company, Botetourt Virginia Light Artillery, King's Battalion of Artillery, 1st Corps, Army of Northern Virginia, C.S.A. A 27 year-old farmer, he enlisted on 5/15/1861 at Buchanan, VA., and traveled 50 miles to Lynchburg, VA., where on 5/16/1861 he was mustered into Captain Joseph W. Anderson's Company "Mountain Rifles", 28th Virginia Infantry, as a Private. (This company subsequently became Company H, 28th Virginia Infantry.) On 12/24/1861 the company was transferred into Botetourt Virginia Light Artillery as Company A. He was discharged after furnishing Samuel Booze as substitute on 2/8/1862. The Botetourt Light Artillery was organized with men from Botetourt County in May, 1861, as an infantry company. It was assigned to the 28th Regiment Virginia Infantry but in December transferred to the artillery. The unit soon moved west and was attached to the Department of East Tennessee and later the Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana. It contained 43 men in January, 1863, and it was the only Virginia unit to be captured at Vicksburg. After being exchanged, it served in the Department of Western Virginia and East Tennessee where it was active in various conflicts. During April, 1865, the company disbanded.

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