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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. Despite Virginia's secession from the Union, along with newly created West Virginia, it also supplied 22,000 troops to the Union Army, the third-most troops ...
Virginia: Virginia Kekoas Norfolk: Campbell County Militia Campbell County: Washington: Washington Light Foot Militia [D] Spokane County: West Virginia: Ohio Valley Minutemen Citizen's Volunteer Militia [E] Charleston: Wisconsin: Kenosha Guard [34] Kenosha
(Virginia Militia) 1754–1901 (Virginia Regiment) 1917–1921 (Virginia Volunteers) 1941–1947 (Virginia State Guard) 1985–present (Virginia Defense Force) Country: United States: Allegiance: Virginia: Type: State defense force: Role: Defense support of civil authority: Size: 275 [1] Part of: Virginia Department of Military Affairs: 1st ...
Private Elijah S. Leach of Co. B, 31st Virginia Infantry Regiment. The 31st Virginia Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment raised in Virginia for service in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. It fought mostly as part of the Army of Northern Virginia.
In July, the Legion infantry boarded a train and headed north to join the Army of Northern Virginia as part of Cobb's Brigade. The cavalry followed later, and was assigned to a different brigade. [5] They would remain separated for the remainder of the war (a common fate for Confederate legions), a situation made official by Special Order 104. [10]
The 59th Virginia Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment raised in Virginia's western counties for service in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. It fought mostly with the Army of Northern Virginia, and in the Carolinas. The 59th Virginia (also called 2nd Regiment, Wise Legion) was organized in August 1861.
Cobb's Legion (also known as the Georgia Legion) was an American Civil War Confederate States Army unit that was raised from the state of Georgia by Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb during the summer of 1861. [1] A legion in the Civil War usually meant a combined-arms unit, consisting of two or three branches of the military: infantry, cavalry, and ...
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.