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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.
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 ...
The 7th Infantry Regiment is an infantry regiment in the United States Army. In its 200-year history it has participated in 12 wars, been awarded 78 campaign streamers, and 14 unit decorations. [ 3 ] The regiment has served in more campaigns than any other infantry unit in the United States Army.
General Sir Banastre Tarleton, 1st Baronet GCB (21 August 1754 – 15 January 1833) was a British military officer and politician. He is best known as the lieutenant colonel leading the British Legion at the end of the American Revolutionary War.
It is known that Thomas Jefferson asked for one quarter of the county's militia, 65 men, to fight at Green Spring, West Virginia in 1781, near the end of the war. [ 2 ] What is known is that Fluvanna was the site of Point of Fork Arsenal , a major center of arms manufacturing for the Virginia government during the Revolution.
The remaining 350 men from the original ten companies of the Virginia Regiment had been allocated to the two regular regiments of the expedition. [3] [4] After the defeat of the expedition, the Virginia Regiment was immediately reformed, with the General Assembly voting in 1755 to increase its size again, to 1,500 men organized in 16 companies.
7th California Infantry Regiment (1861), also known as the 7th California Volunteer Infantry; 7th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment; 7th Regiment Indiana Infantry (3 months) 7th Regiment Indiana Infantry (3 years) 7th Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment; 7th Regiment Maryland Volunteer Infantry; 7th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry