Company B "Botetourt Dragoons", 2nd Virginia Cavalry, Cavalry Division, Army of Potomac, C.S.A.

Residence: Botetourt County, VA; Deputy Sheriff, farmer; 39 years old.

Enlisted on 5/17/1861 at Fincastle, VA, he traveled 54 mile to Lynchburg, VA, where on 5/20/1861 he was mustered into his kinsman Captain Andrew L. Pitzer's Company Mounted Rangers, Radford's Regiment Mounted Rangers, as a 1st Sergeant. His horse was valued at $200, his equipments $40. (This company subsequently became Company B, 2nd Virginia Cavalry.)

Present on all Rolls from enlistment until 11/2/1861 when he furnished James S. Breckenridge as Substitute, then discharged for "chronic Hemorrhoides".

The 2nd Virginia Cavalry was organized by Colonel Jubal Early in Lynchburg, Virginia, in May, 1861 as the 30th Virginia Volunteer Regiment under Col. Richard C.W. Radford (whence "Radford's Rangers"—not to be confused with Troop G's similar nickname). Its troops (the cavalry equivalent of infantry companies) were recruited across several counties of Central Virginia. At the end of October, 1861 the unit was re-designated the 2nd Virginia Cavalry Regiment.

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Scott,

My name is Jeanette and Albert Baker Pitzer # 9733237 is a 1st cousin 4 x removed from me. I have additional information you may be interested in adding to his memorial. I am including the memorial numbers for the people who can be linked to Albert Baker Pitzer if you would like to do so.

The information I have for his is he was married three times. 1st marriage to Virginia E L Welch # 63158430 evidenced by the 1850 census record. The names listed are:

Pitzer, Albert - 29 Head - Dep. Sheriff

Pitzer, Virginia E L - 34

Pitzer William B - 3

Pitzer, Fielding J - 7/12

Welch, William - 16 - farmer (probably Virginia's brother or nephew)

Virginia's parents are Benjamin Welch # 26685712 and Charlotte Pitzer # 26685758

The 1860 census lists

Pitzer, Albert - 35 - Head - Dep. Sheriff

Pitzer, Catherine - 38

Pitzer, William B - 12 - # 11806514

Pitzer, Fielder - 10 - # 113208014

Pitzer, Earnest - 6

Pitzer, Fannie - 4

Per Virginia Selected Marriage record database

Albert B Pitzer and Catherine Boswell (b. abt. 1820 Alleghany, Virginia) m. 22 Aug 1855 in Covington, Virginia. Per Virginia deaths and burials data base she died 5 Jul 1864 in Botetourt, Virginia

Then of course the marriage to Jane Maria Morton on 12 Sep 1865 per Virginia Selected Marriages database which you already listed in the memorial.

The 1870 census record lists Albert & Jennie (Jane), Children: Fielder - 26, Fannie - 14, Charles - 4, Lucy J - 2 & Rufus - 8 mos.

The 1880 census record lists Albert & Jane, Children: Fannie - 20, Charles M - 13, Lucy J - 12 & Rufus - 10

The residence for all of the above census records is Botetourt County and then Nelson County in 1880.