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The 1st Battalion, Virginia Infantry Regulars, also known as the Irish Battalion, was raised in Virginia for service in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War and, served as infantry. It fought mostly with the Army of Northern Virginia.
This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the state of Virginia.. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the state had 340 law enforcement agencies employing 22,848 sworn police officers, about 293 for each 100,000 residents.
320th Military Police Battalion - Ashley, PA; 324th Military Police Battalion (I/R) - Fresno, CA; 400th Military Police Battalion - Fort Meade, MD; 607th Military Police Battalion - Grand Prairie, TX; 744th Military Police Battalion - Bethlehem, PA; 200th Military Police Command: Reserve 14th Military Police Brigade. 701st Military Police ...
Prior to 2014 the Virginia Defense Force command structure consisted of a single Light infantry division, the George Washington Division, with its headquarters and attached Military Police Company and Communications Battalion operating out of the Virginia National Guard Headquarters (formerly at the Dove Street Armory in Richmond, Virginia) as ...
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.
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.
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.