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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 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.
2nd Virginia Regiment; 6th Virginia Regiment; 10th Virginia Regiment; 14th Virginia Regiment; Pennsylvania State Regiment, Colonel Walter Stewart; Anthony Wayne. Division: Brigadier General Anthony Wayne (2,000) [32] 1st Pennsylvania Brigade: Colonel Thomas Hartley [33] 1st Pennsylvania Regiment, Colonel James Chambers; 2nd Pennsylvania ...
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).
Memorial plaque to Colonel James Patton and pioneers killed at Draper's Meadow Massacre. The story of Mary Draper Ingles' escape and journey home has inspired a number of books, films, and living history programs, including the popular 1981 novel Follow the River by James Alexander Thom , a 1995 ABC television movie Follow the River , and the ...
Virginia Patton, who played George Bailey’s sister-in-law in the holiday staple It’s A Wonderful Life, died in an assisted living facilty on Aug. 18. She was 97. Patton was Ruth Dakin Bailey ...
The 7th Virginia Regiment (1781) (Constituted by redesignation of the 9th Virginia Regiment of 1779). ... 1774-1787, (c) Virginia State Library, Richmond, VA, 1978 ...