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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.
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 ...
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).
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 ...
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.
William Ingles was among the founders of Draper's Meadow (present day Blacksburg, Virginia) in 1748. The Ingles and the Draper families established the settlement with Colonel James Patton. [10]: 13 William built and operated Ingles Mill, one of the first mills in western Virginia, at Draper's Meadow in 1750, when he was only 21 years old.
3rd Virginia Brigade: Brigadier General William Woodford (absent) [25] [26] 3rd Virginia Regiment, Lieutenant Colonel T. Will Heth [27] 7th Virginia Regiment, Colonel Alexander McClanachan [24] 11th Virginia Regiment, Lieutenant Colonel Christian Febiger; 15th Virginia Regiment; 4th Virginia Brigade: Brigadier General Charles Scott. 4th ...