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The Virginia militia is an armed force composed of all citizens of the Commonwealth of Virginia capable of bearing arms. The Virginia militia was established in 1607 as part of the English militia system. Militia service in Virginia was compulsory for all free males.
Virginia: Virginia Kekoas Norfolk: Campbell County Militia Campbell County: Washington: Washington Light Foot Militia [D] Spokane County: West Virginia: Ohio Valley Minutemen Citizen's Volunteer Militia [E] Charleston: Wisconsin: Kenosha Guard [34] Kenosha
The VDF is the descendant of the Virginia State Guard, the Virginia Regiment, and ultimately the Colonial Virginia militia of the Virginia Colony. The Virginia Defense Force Command is headquartered at the historic Old City Hall, but drills out of the Waller Armory in Richmond, Virginia. State law allows the command to grow to as many as 7,800 ...
Vane came to authorities’ attention after an online news outlet reported that a militia group, the Virginia Kekoas, had severed ties with him because they were alarmed by what they considered ...
Vane had previously been kicked out of the Virginia Kekoas, a self-described “prepper militia.” Leaders of the group insisted he leave after he made increasingly alarming comments about home ...
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. Despite Virginia's secession from the Union, along with newly created West Virginia , it also supplied 22,000 troops to the Union Army , the third-most ...
The Anglo-French conflict over the Ohio Country led to raising of the first provincial regiment in the British colony of Virginia.In 1754, the Virginia General Assembly voted to raise a regiment of 300 men and send it to the confluence of the Alleghany and Monongahela rivers.
Some soldiers served in the Continental Army and the Virginia militia; they should be listed in both categories. Militiamen from Kentucky County (and the three counties that Kentucky County was divided into) are listed in Category:Kentucky militiamen in the American Revolution rather than here.