 The unit's original leader was Captain John Quincy Adams Nadenbousch.They were stationed around Martinsburg, in what is now West Virginia.During the Civil War, the company was a part of the original "Stonewall Brigade," commanded by General Thomas J. Jackson of Lexington, Virginia, originally a native of Clarksburg, Virginia (now West Virginia), and Jackson's Mill, near present-day Weston, West Virginia.