Clarke Cavalry (Co. D, 6th Virginia Cavalry)

The Clarke Courier of September 4, 1884 reported that the survivors of Co. D, the Clarke Cavalry, met under the trees in front of Lieut. R. O. Allen's house and formed the "Association of the survivors of the Clarke Cavalry"; 32 answered the roll.

In June 1885 a committee of the survivors, with A. Moore, Jr. as chairman, appealed in the Courier for help to build a monument to the Clarke men "who were slain in battle, or died from wounds received, or sickness contracted" in the war.

A guest at the 1885 reunion wrote to the Courier that it was "possibly just a little grating" to the old infantrymen to be "left out in the cold" while the cavalry raised the monument, but that the cavalry reunion was the best working association for the purpose.

In June 1885 the survivors brought home the remains of F. P. Topper, "a Pennsylvanian" of the company who had fallen near Luray in 1864; the Clarke Rifles escorted them to Grace Episcopal Church to lie under guard, and the survivors, other veterans under T. D. Gold, and citizens followed the hearse to Green Hill in one of the largest processions the cemetery had seen, the Courier reported.

In March 1886 the Courier reported that the Legislature had passed bills to incorporate the association and to let the county's Board of Supervisors give it ground in the court-yard square for a monument to the Confederate dead.

At the reunion of August 22, 1888, A. Moore, Jr. read his own narrative of the company's charge at Trevilian Station, which the Courier printed.

A guest who had been to three reunions wrote in 1891 that "Time has left its impress upon many of these old soldiers" and that they would "one by one drop from the ranks," but that once a year the hardships of the war were "almost forgotten in the pleasure of meeting around the festive board."

At the reunion of 1896, the Courier reported, "Thirty-two survivors of the gallant old company" attended, with ex-Confederates of other commands.

At the twentieth reunion, in 1903, the members stood bareheaded while "the roll of the honored dead was called."

In August 1905 only sixteen of the survivors were present, and six members had died since the reunion of the year before, the Courier reported.

At the 34th reunion, in August 1918, four members answered the roll: J. S. Ware, Nicholas Moore, Jos. N. Wheat and A. Moore, Jr.

Gold’s account of Brandy Station (printed p. 269) says that "One of the men in the woods with Lieutenant Allen was Nicholas Moore, of the Clarke Cavalry, who received a very severe wound from a pistol shot," fell forward on his horse, kept his seat, and was brought off the field.