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The 7th Virginia Regiment was raised on January 11, 1776, at Gloucester, Virginia, for service with the Continental Army. The regiment would see action at the Battle of Brandywine , Battle of Germantown (after which it wintered at Valley Forge [ 1 ] ), Battle of Monmouth and the Siege of Charleston .
The Battle of Cowpens was a military engagement during the American Revolutionary War fought on January 17, 1781, near the town of Cowpens, South Carolina.American Patriot forces, estimated at 2,000 militia and regulars under Brigadier General Daniel Morgan faced 1,000 British troops under Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton.
The 7th continued the fight in the Petersburg trenches south of the James River and around Appomattox. The regiment sustained 47 casualties at First Manassas, 77 at Williamsburg, 111 at Frayser's Farm, 59 at Second Manassas, and 4 at Fredericksburg. About 40% of the 335 engaged at Gettysburg were disabled.
7th Virginia Regiment, Colonel Alexander McClanachan [24] 11th Virginia Regiment, Lieutenant Colonel Christian Febiger; 15th Virginia Regiment; 4th Virginia Brigade: Brigadier General Charles Scott. 4th Virginia Regiment, Colonel Robert Lawson [24] 8th Virginia Regiment, Colonel Abraham Bowman (Major William Darke captured) [24] 12th Virginia ...
2nd Virginia Regiment: Colonel Christian Febiger 6th Virginia Regiment: Colonel John Gibson: 10th Virginia Regiment: Colonel John Green 14th Virginia Regiment: Colonel William Davies * Detached from regiment to lead a detachment of picked men. Source: Lender & Stone 2016, pp. 460–461.
Col James L. Kemper. 1st Virginia; 7th Virginia; 11th Virginia; 17th Virginia: Col Montgomery D. Corse; Roger's (Virginia) Battery; R. H. Anderson's Brigade Col Micah Jenkins (w) 5th South Carolina: Col John R.R. Giles (k), Ltc Andrew Jackson; 6th South Carolina: Col John Bratton (w&c), Ltc John M. Steedman; 4th South Carolina (Battalion)
Tarleton commanded the British Legion, a primarily Loyalist provincial regiment. The force he took in pursuit of Buford consisted of 170 Legion and British Army dragoons, 100 mounted British Legion infantry, and a three-pounder cannon. [1] [7] Tarleton reached Camden late on May 28, and set off in pursuit of Buford around midnight early the ...
On December 25, 1782, the regiment was taken onto the British establishment, suggesting that there may have been some thought to maintain the regiment as part of the postwar army. [7] The infantry of the Legion still in Charleston, and such of the regiment as had escaped to New York, were eventually evacuated to Nova Scotia in 1783. [9]