Benjamin Andrews enlisted with the 41st Virginia Cavalry, was recorded as having been transferred to the Navy, however, it appears that before this transfer was effected, he was with those transferred to the 62nd Virginia and killed at New Hope, Virginia June 5, 1864 in Col. Imboden's command.

George Martin

Benjamin T Andrews enlisted July 30, 1863 by Captain Hobson at Richmond in Captain McN. Hobson's Company, Major Robert White's Battalion, transferred to the Navy ca May 2/21, 1864 [Note - His file contains only one,-non dated muster roll]

This company subsequently became Company C, 41st Battalion Virginia Cavalry. It was later assigned to the 23rd Regiment Virginia Cavalry as (1st) Company K and finally became Company L, 62nd Regiment Virginia Mounted Infantry April 28, 1864

Company C, 41st Battalion, Virginia Cavalry, subsequently (1st) Company K, 23rd Regiment Virginia Cavalry (no rolls),
afterwards assigned as Company L, 62nd Regiment Virginia Mounted Infantry (or "Cav.") - first roll on files " . . . cover from April 1 to December 31, 1864."
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He has no records within the rolls of the 23rd Virginia Cavalry, however, we find one card in that of the 62nd Virginia Mounted Infantry which record he enlisted July 23, 1863 at Richmond by Captain Hobson, and on the November 1, 1864 he is recorded as "Killed in the battle of New Hope", June 5, no further records

June 5, 1864, Battle of New Hope, Virginia

The Battle of Piedmont, June 5, in which the commander, BGen. Grumble Jones was killed, ended at New Hope, see:

http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=8250

My ggrandfather with the 43rd Tennessee in J. C. Vaughn's brigade were also participants.

See: http://www.mycivilwar.com/regiments/csa-va/va_inf_62_reg.htm

http://openlibrary.org/b/OL1755543M/62nd-Virginia-Infantry

http://epistolary.org/849.html

http://www.worldcat.org/isbn/093091953X

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The U. S. Army History Institute, Carlisle Barracks, Pa lists the following two books in their unit bibliography:

23rd Virginia Cavalry Regiment

Kleese, Richard B. 23rd Virginia Cavalry. Lynchburg, VA: Howard, 1996. 108 p.

See: http://www.worldcat.org/isbn/1561900915

http://www.alibris.com/search/books/qwork/51325/used/23rd%20Virginia%20Cavalry

http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?sts=t&tn=23rd+Virginia+Cavalry&x=0&y=0

O'Ferrall, Charles T. Forty Years of Active Service: Being Some History of the War Between the Confederacy and the Union and of the Events Leading Up to it.... NY: Neale, 1904. 367 p.

http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?sts=t&tn=Forty+Years+of+Active+Service&x=0&y=0

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41st Battalion Virginia Cavalry, "The Comanches: A History of White's Battalion, Virginia Cavalry," by Frank M. Myers. Originally published in 1871 at Baltimore, Maryland, it was reprinted in 1956 at Marietta, Georgia, by the Continental Book Company. 1st edition and 2nd edition may both prove hard to locate