Colonel T. P. August. After Virginia had passed the ordinance of secession (April 17, 1861), T. P. August, one of her prominent citizens, at once began to raise a regiment, and on May 21, 1861, was on the peninsula at the head of a regiment of Virginia volunteers in the army operating under General Magruder. His regiment became the Fifteenth Virginia and he received from the Confederate government the confirmation of his rank as colonel. He continued to serve under General Magruder until after the Seven Days' battles around Richmond in the summer of 1862. In his report of these battles General Magruder says: "Col. T. P. August was particularly distinguished." He was wounded and was unableto participate in the Second Manassas and Maryland campaigns. At Fredericksburg he was again at the head of his regiment.At the time of the battle of Chancellorsville he was with Longstreet in southeast Virginia. He was afterward on detached duty, and was not engaged in active campaigning again during the war. Since the return of peace he has spent most of his time in Richmond, engaged in the practice of law.
Confederate Military History, Vol. III.
