Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
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.
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
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]
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 62nd Virginia Mounted Infantry Regiment, raised in Virginia for service in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War, served in many capacities including the war, including as an infantry regiment, a cavalry regiment, a mounted infantry unit, a partisan unit of rangers, and even as a combined arms unit.
It fought in western Virginia, East Tennessee, with the Army of Northern Virginia and the Shenandoah Valley. [1] The 1st Battalion, Virginia Mounted Rifles was organized in December, 1861 and was absorbed into Virginia's 34th Cavalry Battalion in December 1862. Lieutenant Colonel Vincent "Clawhammer" Witcher and Majors John A. McFarlane and ...