One of the "Immortal 600".
Company I, 41st Virginia Infantry, Weisiger's Brigade, Mahone's Division, 3rd Corps, Army of Northern Virginia, C.S.A.
Residence: Nansemond County, VA.; 5'9"; dark complexion, dark hair, black eyes.
Enlisted on 4/18/1861 in Norfolk, VA, he was mustered into (1st) Company H, 16th Virginia Infantry, as a Private.
On 7/22/1861 he was transferred into his brother Captain Robert Brinkley's Company, 41st Virginia Infantry, as 1st Sergeant. (This company subsequently became Company I, 41st Virginia Infantry.)
Listed on March & April 1862 Roll as having Re-enlisted for the duration of the war.
Elected 2nd Lieutenant 5/1/1862, Commanding company.
Present or accounted for on all Rolls from enlistment until Wounded In Action (gunshot wound of left hand) 7/1/1862 in Battle of Malvern Hill, VA (part of Seven Days' Battles); hospitalized 7/2/1862 in C.S.A. General Hospital #7, Richmond, VA; given 30-day Medical Furlough 7/19/1862.
Present on all subsequent Rolls until 7/21/1863 when admitted into C.S.A. General Hospital #4, Richmond, VA, with chronic diarrhea; transferred to another hospital 7/30/1862, released.
POW 9/1/1863 while recuperating at home in Nansemond County, VA; confined 9/22/1863 Fort Norfolk, VA; confined 9/24/1863 in Old Capitol Prison, Washington, DC; sent 11/11/1863 to Johnson's Island, OH, arriving there 11/14/1863; transferred to Baltimore, MD 2/9/1864; confined 2/15/1864 in Point Lookout, MD; confined 6/25/1864 Fort Delaware, DE; exchanged 7/10/1864.
POW 7/15/1864 in Petersburg, VA; confined in Fort Delaware, DE; released from there 6/12/1865.
[Erroneously listed as dying in Ft.Delaware on 12/26/64. While there, he changed places with another man, probably 3rd LT Richard W.Heath, Company G, 41st Virginia Infantry; Heath is probably buried under Brinkley's name at Finn's Point National Cemetery, NJ.]
The 41st Virginia Infantry Regiment completed its organization in July, 1861. Men of this unit were recruited in Petersburg and Sussex, Chesterfield, Norfolk, and Nansemond counties.
One of the "Immortal 600".
Company I, 41st Virginia Infantry, Weisiger's Brigade, Mahone's Division, 3rd Corps, Army of Northern Virginia, C.S.A.
Residence: Nansemond County, VA.; 5'9"; dark complexion, dark hair, black eyes.
Enlisted on 4/18/1861 in Norfolk, VA, he was mustered into (1st) Company H, 16th Virginia Infantry, as a Private.
On 7/22/1861 he was transferred into his brother Captain Robert Brinkley's Company, 41st Virginia Infantry, as 1st Sergeant. (This company subsequently became Company I, 41st Virginia Infantry.)
Listed on March & April 1862 Roll as having Re-enlisted for the duration of the war.
Elected 2nd Lieutenant 5/1/1862, Commanding company.
Present or accounted for on all Rolls from enlistment until Wounded In Action (gunshot wound of left hand) 7/1/1862 in Battle of Malvern Hill, VA (part of Seven Days' Battles); hospitalized 7/2/1862 in C.S.A. General Hospital #7, Richmond, VA; given 30-day Medical Furlough 7/19/1862.
Present on all subsequent Rolls until 7/21/1863 when admitted into C.S.A. General Hospital #4, Richmond, VA, with chronic diarrhea; transferred to another hospital 7/30/1862, released.
POW 9/1/1863 while recuperating at home in Nansemond County, VA; confined 9/22/1863 Fort Norfolk, VA; confined 9/24/1863 in Old Capitol Prison, Washington, DC; sent 11/11/1863 to Johnson's Island, OH, arriving there 11/14/1863; transferred to Baltimore, MD 2/9/1864; confined 2/15/1864 in Point Lookout, MD; confined 6/25/1864 Fort Delaware, DE; exchanged 7/10/1864.
POW 7/15/1864 in Petersburg, VA; confined in Fort Delaware, DE; released from there 6/12/1865.
[Erroneously listed as dying in Ft.Delaware on 12/26/64. While there, he changed places with another man, probably 3rd LT Richard W.Heath, Company G, 41st Virginia Infantry; Heath is probably buried under Brinkley's name at Finn's Point National Cemetery, NJ.]
The 41st Virginia Infantry Regiment completed its organization in July, 1861. Men of this unit were recruited in Petersburg and Sussex, Chesterfield, Norfolk, and Nansemond counties.
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