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The 7th Virginia Regiment was raised on January 11, 1776, at Gloucester, ... James Patton, The Life of Andrew Jackson (New York: Mason Bros., 1869), 89. Andrew ...
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.
James Lynn Patton, (1690 or 1692 – 30 July, 1755) was a merchant, pioneer frontiersman, and soldier who settled parts of Virginia's Shenandoah Valley.Between his immigration to Virginia in 1740, and his death there in 1755, he was a prominent figure in the exploration, settlement, governance, and military leadership of the colony.
8th Virginia Regiment (1779) (Constituted in Virginia Line by redesignation of 12th Virginia Regiment of 1777. Captured in Siege of Charleston, May 12, 1780. Disbanded January 1, 1783). 9th Virginia Regiment (1779) (Constituted in Virginia Line by redesignation of 13th Virginia Regiment of 1777. Redesignated 7th Virginia Regiment, January 1, 1781).
3rd Virginia Regiment; 7th Virginia Regiment; 11th Virginia Regiment; 15th Virginia Regiment; 4th Virginia Brigade: Brigadier General Charles Scott. 4th Virginia Regiment; 8th Virginia Regiment; 12th Virginia Regiment; Grayson's Additional Continental Regiment [40] Patton's Additional Continental Regiment [41] Lord Stirling
George Patton, Jr.'s paternal grandfather was George Smith Patton, who commanded the 22nd Virginia Infantry under Jubal Early in the Civil War and was killed in the Third Battle of Winchester, while his great-uncle Waller T. Patton was killed in Pickett's Charge leading the 7th Virginia Infantry regiment during the Battle of Gettysburg.
Elizabeth's father, Henry Patton, was a prominent shipwright and merchant, and his son (this man's uncle) James Patton served in the Royal Navy. In 1737 James Patton and his Virginia partner, Col. William Beverley, had secured the right to develop 30,000 acres in then-huge Orange County (in the part that became still-vast Augusta County in 1745 ...
The regiment ceased to exist on 13 January 1779 when it consolidated with Hartley's Additional Continental Regiment. [1] The exception was Captain Allen McLane's Delaware company which separated from Patton's Regiment on 16 December 1778 and joined the 1st Delaware Regiment in the 3rd Virginia Brigade.