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It fought mostly with the Army of Northern Virginia. The battalion was organized in May 1861, with men from the city of Richmond and Hanover County in five companies. It moved to western Virginia and participated in Lee's Cheat Mountain Campaign, then fought at First Kernstown, McDowell, and in Jackson's Valley Campaign.
Major Michael John O'Leary VC (29 September 1890 – 2 August 1961) was an Irish soldier and police officer who was a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth military personnel.
The flag of Virginia during the American Civil War An unidentified soldier in a Confederate States Army uniform with state of Virginia buttons. Virginia provided the following units to the Virginia Militia and the Provisional Army of the Confederate States (PACS), part of the Confederate States Army, during the American Civil War.
With their official entry into confederate service, the regiment was placed in John Clifford Pemberton's 1st Brigade which was composed of the 3rd Virginia, 3rd North Carolina Volunteers (13th North Carolina), 4th North Carolina Volunteers (14th North Carolina), Wilson's Virginia Battalion and Manley's North Carolina Light Artillery. [1]
18th Virginia (600 men): Col George W. Imboden; 23rd Virginia (315 men): [4] Col Robert White; 43rd Virginia Battalion Partisans: Ltc John S. Mosby; 2nd Maryland Battalion (40 men): Maj Harry W. Gilmor; McNeill's Company, Partisans (60 men): Cpt John H. McNeill; Company A, 3rd Battalion Virginia Mounted Reserves (87 men): Capt. George Chrisman
32 units of the United States Army have lineages which date back to the colonial history of the United States.Of those, 31 are Army National Guard units, including regiments, battalions, companies, batteries and troops, while one is a battalion of the Regular Army's Field Artillery Branch. 29 of the 31 Army National Guard units trace their lineage back to units formed in British America, while ...
Portion of an 1865 map showing the location of Fort Corcoran. To the northeast is the Potomac River and Georgetown.The Aqueduct Bridge can also be distinguished.. Over 13,000 men marched into Northern Virginia on the 24th, bringing with them "a long train of wagons filled with wheelbarrows, shovels, &c." [7] These implements were put to work even as thousands of men marched further into Virginia.
Anaheim Police Department Mounted Enforcement Unit, California; East Bay Regional Park District Police Department Mounted Patrol Unit, California; Frank G. Bonelli Regional Park Volunteer Mounted Assistance Unit, San Dimas, California [47] Los Angeles Police Department Mounted Unit, California [48]