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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.
27th Virginia Infantry: Cpt Charles L. Haynes; 33rd Virginia Infantry: Ltc Edwin G. Lee; Second Brigade Col T.S. Garnett 21st Virginia Infantry: Ltc R. H. Cunningham (k), Cpt W. A. Witcher; 42nd Virginia Infantry: Maj Henry Lane (mw), Cpt Abner Dobyns; 48th Virginia Infantry: Cpt William Y. C. Hannum; 1st Virginia (Irish) Battalion: Maj John Seddon
Company A, 3rd Battalion Virginia Mounted Reserves (87 men): Capt. George Chrisman; Artillery (357 men, 18 guns) Maj William McLaughlin Chapman's (Virginia) Battery (135 men, 6 guns): Cpt George B. Chapman; Jackson's (Virginia) Battery (94 men, 4 guns): 1st Lt Randolph H. Blain; McClanahan's (Virginia) Battery (93 men, 6 guns): Cpt John McClanahan
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.
Organization of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia The following organization of the Army of Northern Virginia on the Peninsula was established on April 30. Prior to this organization, Confederate forces were organized ad hoc, as they arrived in theater.
The 88th was numbered out of sequence after the British 88th Connaught Rangers, and was the 2nd Regiment Irish Brigade. After Chancellorsville, the new Brigade Commander, Col Patrick Kelly of the 88th, formed these "core" NY regiments, now together only numbering 220 effectives, into a single battalion under the flag of the 88th.
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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.