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The 2nd Virginia Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment raised in today's western Virginia and what became West Virginia during the American Civil War for service in the Confederate States Army. It would combine with the 4th , 5th , 27th , and 33rd Virginia infantry regiments and the Rockbridge Artillery Battery and fight as part of what ...
By July 1776, Virginia had expanded its forces to include several more infantry regiments and an artillery regiment under the command of General Andrew Lewis. The Virginia forces, including the 2d Virginia Regiment, would bombard Dunmore's position from a shore battery before launching an amphibious assault on the island.
The flag of Virginia during the American Civil War An unidentified soldier in a Confederate States Army uniform with state of Virginia buttons. 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.
Company D, 2nd Virginia Infantry, locally designated the Berkeley Border Guards, was an antebellum Virginia militia company and then a company of the 2nd Virginia Infantry, a Confederate infantry unit during the American Civil War.
The 2nd West Virginia Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Many of its soldiers were actually from Pennsylvania. The regiment fought in Virginia and West Virginia. On May 23, 1863, the regiment was converted to a mounted infantry by Brigadier General William W. Averell. The ...
2nd Virginia Infantry (335 officers & men): Col John Q. A. Nadenbousch; 4th Virginia Infantry (257 officers & men): Maj William Terry; 5th Virginia Infantry (370 officers & men): Col John H. S. Funk; 27th Virginia Infantry (148 officers & men): Ltc David M. Shriver; 33rd Virginia Infantry (236 officers & men): Cpt Jacob B. Golladay
The Army of the Shenandoah originated with the various militia and volunteer companies sent to seize and defend the town of Harpers Ferry, Virginia (modern day West Virginia). To organize and train the companies, Virginia state commander Robert E. Lee initially appointed Thomas J. Jackson to command the post.
22nd Infantry Battalion was organized with six companies of the 2nd Regiment, Virginia Artillery. It served in Field's , Heth's , and H.H. Walker's Brigade, and fought with the Army of Northern Virginia from Cedar Mountain to Cold Harbor, then was involved in the Petersburg siege south of the James River.