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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 7th Virginia was organized in May, 1861, at Manassas Junction, Virginia, with men from Giles, Madison, Rappahannock, Culpeper, Greene, Mercer, Monroe and Albemarle counties. [1] It fought at First Manassas under General Jubal Early, then served with Richard Ewell, Ambrose P. Hill, James L.Kemper, and William R. Terry.
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)
The First Virginia Regiment is memorialized in a statue in Meadow Park, a triangular park in Richmond’s (VA) Fan District by sculptor Ferruccio Legnaioli. Dedicated on 1 May 1930, to commemorate the regiment for fighting in seven American Wars, including the Civil War when they served in the Confederate Army.
The 7th West Virginia Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. For much of the war, it was a part of the famed " Gibraltar Brigade " in the Army of the Potomac .
Union Cavalry and Infantry regiments—some 4,500 soldiers in total—left Tennessee on December 17 for southwestern Virginia. [ 4 ] Through two days of fighting, a Confederate force under the command of John C. Breckinridge —totalling 1,200–1,500 infantry and cavalry—was successful in holding defensive positions in and around the town of ...
The 8th Virginia Regiment or German Regiment was an infantry unit that served in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. Authorized in January 1776, the regiment was raised from men of several northwestern counties in the strength of 10 companies. Its first commander was Colonel Peter Muhlenberg, a clergyman and militia leader.
The Union brigade consisted of 365 men from the 2nd West Virginia Volunteer Cavalry Regiment and 505 men from the 34th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. [Note 3] This combined force is considered undersized for a Civil War brigade, which usually consisted of about 2,600 soldiers. [20]