Captain Litrille enlisted on May 15, 1862, at Camp Jackson, Wytheville, Virginia. He was one of four brothers that enlisted on the same day. He was 34 years old and left a wife and six children to tend the farm on the day he rode out of Hampton Valley to join the Confederate Army.
The first action for the Regiment occurred when they marched to Princeton, West Virginia, and drove the Union forces from the city. Fighting continued with the Union troops retreating past Flat Top Mountain, some 20 miles north of Princeton. The Southern Troops then marched back south to the Wytheville area. On July 10, the Regiment as part of the Army of Western Virginia, marched from Dublin, Virginia, to repel the Yankee invaders from what is now the Kanawaha River area of West Virginia. They marched by way of Pearisburg, Narrows, Princeton, and Beckley, West Virginia and drove the enemy out of Fayetteville, West Virginia. They then crossed the Kanawaha River and seized the Federal camp. The Regiment continued to push the Yankee troops across the Gauley River with a skirmish taking place at Montgomery Ferry and another Confederate victory. Fighting continued as the Army of Western Virginia drove on past Elk River and captured Charleston, West Virginia. A calvary unit drove on to Point Pleasant on the Ohio River. Over $1,000,000 worth of military supplies were captured by troops of Western Virginia.
Captain Litrille's Regiment camped at Camp Lee near Charleston until ordered to join Lee's Army of Northern Virginia in Southampton County, Virginia. The troops marched back to Narrows and then on to Wytheville. One soldier in Company F wrote home to Grayson County that they had marched over 416 miles. On December 17, 1862, they boarded a train for Richmond, Virginia. The 63rd left Richmond on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day found them marching toward Suffork. A fight ensued at Kelly's Store and one also near Suffork, as well as numerous skirmishes along the Blackwater River. By March 15, 1863, the 63rd Regiment was ordered back to western Virginia to protect the salt works at Saltville, the lead mines at Austinville, and the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad, which was a very valuable supply line for General Lee's Army. Upon arriving back at Dublin, Captain Litrille was discharged on March 22, 1863, due to a Surgeon's Certificate of Disability. (Copied from Civil War Ancestors, 1861-1865 written by Earl Shaw, Jr., 481 Shepherd Avenue, Winter Park, FL 32789, 1999)∼Littrelle Hickerson Hampton was the son of Griggs Hampton and Phyllis (Sutherland) Hampton, the husband of Nancy (Blevins) Hampton, and the father of Littrelle Z. Hampton, Griggs Jasper Hampton, John Newton Hampton, William Haywood Hampton, Charles Augustus Hampton, Fidella Jane (Hampton) Collins, Rebecca Francis Hampton, Phoebe Adeline (Hampton) Collins, Granville Thomas Hampton, Walter Joseph Hampton, Kemper Houston Hampton, and Alice Sarah Hampton.