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The Stonewall Brigade constructed Camp Winder for their winter quarters in December of 1862. Located in the forests of Moss Neck, Camp Winder was easily accessible to the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad and offered good drainage, wood and water supplies (Robertson, The Stonewall Brigade, 175).

Guinney Station was located south of Fredericksburg and was the site of General Stonewall Jackson's death on May 10, 1863 after the battle of Chancellorsville.

John Telford McKee (1845-1912) was a farmer who enlisted in Company I on June 8, 1861. He was captured on March 23, 1862 at Kernstown along with Andrew Brooks. After being exchanged on August 5, 1862, he was promoted to Corporal. McKee was captured during the Battle of Gettysburg and imprisoned at Fort Delaware until February of 1865 when he was exchanged. He died in Buena Vista, Virginia (Robertson, 63). Edward A. Moore, a cannoneer in the Rockbridge Artillery Company, includes an interesting anecdote about McKee's capture at Gettysburg in his memoirs. He relates that the "stalwart Irish Federal" who pulled McKee up over the breastworks said, "Gim-me your hand, Johnny Reb; you've give' us the bulliest fight of the war!" (Moore, 199).

Sutlers were people who followed an army in order to sell provisions to the troops.

Cyrus W. (1842-1906) and George Henry Killian (1840-1888) of Waynesboro, Virginia joined the 5th Virginia Infantry, Company H on March 10, 1862 and April 19, 1861 respectively. George was promoted to Second Lieutenant in April of 1862. Sometime between December 1862 and late January 1863, he went AWOL. He was arrested and sentenced on January 26 to forfeit a month's pay. George was wounded at Chancellorsville (May 3, 1863) and captured at Spotsylvania (May 12, 1864) along with his brother Cyrus. Both were imprisoned at Fort Delaware; George was later transfered to Hilton Head and Morris Island, SC and then Fort Pulaski. The brothers were released in June of 1865. Cyrus went on to become a farmer and merchant in Salem, VA, whereas George eventually moved to Alabama and died of yellow fever in 1888 (Wallace, 136).