List of Virginia Civil War units


List of Virginia Civil War units


Virginia provided the following units to the Virginia Militia and the Provisional Army of the Confederate States (PACS) during the American Civil War. Despite the state's secession from the Union, it would supply them with third most troops from a Southern state (next to Tennessee and North Carolina) along with the newly created West Virginia totaling at 22,000. Also listed are the units of Virginian origin in the service of the Union Army.

Infantry units (PACS)

Infantry brigades

  • 1st Virginia Brigade (Stonewall Brigade)
  • 2nd Virginia Brigade
  • 3rd Virginia Brigade
  • Wise Legion

Infantry regiments

Infantry battalions

Cavalry units (PACS)

Cavalry brigades

  • 1st (Stuart's) Virginia Cavalry Brigade
  • 2nd Virginia Cavalry Brigade
  • 3rd (Wickham's) Virginia Cavalry Brigade
  • 4th Virginia Cavalry Brigade (Laurel Brigade)

Cavalry regiments

Cavalry battalions, companies, and mounted rifle guards

Irregular units

Artillery units (PACS)

Artillery regiments

  • 1st Regiment, Virginia Artillery
  • 1st Regiment, Virginia Light Artillery (Pendleton's)
  • 2nd Regiment, Virginia Artillery
  • 5th Regiment, Virginia Artillery

Artillery battalions

  • 1st Battalion (Hardaway's, Moseley's)
  • 4th Battalion, Virginia Heavy Artillery
  • 7th Battalion, Virginia Heavy Artillery
  • 10th Battalion, Virginia Heavy Artillery (Allen's)
  • 12th Battalion, Virginia Light Artillery
  • 13th Battalion, Virginia Light Artillery
  • 16th Battalion, Virginia Heavy Artillery
  • 18th Battalion, Virginia Light Artillery
  • 18th Battalion, Virginia Heavy Artillery
  • 19th Battalion, Virginia Heavy Artillery (Atkinson's)
  • 20th Battalion, Virginia Heavy Artillery
  • 38th Battalion, Virginia Light Artillery (Read's)

Light artillery batteries

Stafford Light Artillery

  • VMI Artillery Section

Heavy artillery batteries

  • Bayley's Battery (Virginia Heavy Artillery)
  • Bethel Artillery (Coffin's)
  • Botetourt Artillery (Bowyer's)
  • Campbell Battery (Patterson's)
  • Coleman's Battery (Neblett's)
  • Halifax Artillery (Wright's)
  • Johnston Artillery (Epes')
  • Kyle's Battery
  • Lunenberg Artillery (Allen's)
  • Marion Artillery (Wilkinson's)
  • Pamunkey Artillery (A.J. Jones')

Horse artillery

  • 1st Stuart's Horse Artillery (Pelham's)
  • 2nd Stuart's Light Horse Artillery
  • Callahan's Horse Artillery
  • Chew's Battery
  • Moorman's/Shoemaker's Battery
  • Petersburg Artillery

Virginia State units

Virginia State Line

  • 1st Regiment, Virginia State Line
  • 2nd Regiment, Virginia State Line
  • 3rd Regiment, Virginia State Line
  • 4th Regiment, Virginia State Line
  • 5th Regiment, Virginia State Line

Virginia militia regiments

Virginia local defense battalions

  • 1st Battalion, Virginia Cavalry, Local Defense (Browne's)
  • 1st Battalion, Virginia Infantry, Local Defense (Ordnance Battalion)
  • 2nd Battalion, Virginia Infantry, Local Defense (Waller's/Quartermaster Battalion)
  • 3rd Battalion, Virginia Infantry, Local Defense (Departmental)
  • 4th Battalion, Virginia Infantry, Local Defense (Naval/Navy Department Battalion)
  • 5th Battalion, Virginia Infantry, Local Defense (Arsenal Battalion)
  • 6th Battalion, Virginia Infantry, Local Defense (Tredegar Battalion)
  • 7th Battalion, Virginia Infantry, Local Defense (1st Nitre Battalion)

Union Virginia units

  • 1st Regiment Loyal Eastern Virginia Volunteers
  • 1st Regiment, Virginia Infantry
  • 4th Virginia Infantry (later became 4th West Virginia Infantry)
  • 5th Virginia Infantry (later became 5th West Virginia Infantry)
  • 16th Regiment, Virginia Infantry
  • 167th Regiment of Virginia Militia (originally a Confederate unit. Changed to Union after creation of the Restored Government of Virginia. Later became the 167th Regiment of West Virginia Militia)
  • Dameron's Independent Company, Virginia Volunteers
  • Loudoun Rangers
  • 1st West Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment (3 Month)
  • 1st West Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment (3 Year)
  • 1st West Virginia Veteran Volunteer Infantry Regiment
  • 2nd West Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment
  • 2nd West Virginia Veteran Volunteer Infantry Regiment
  • 3rd West Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment
  • 4th West Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment
  • 5th West Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment
  • 6th West Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment
  • 7th West Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment
  • 8th West Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment
  • 9th West Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment
  • 10th West Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment
  • 11th West Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment
  • 12th West Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment
  • 13th West Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment
  • 14th West Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment
  • 15th West Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment
  • 16th West Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment
  • 17th West Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment
  • Independent Battalion West Virginia Infantry
  • 1st Independent Company Loyal Virginians
  • 1st West Virginia Volunteer Cavalry Regiment
  • 2nd West Virginia Volunteer Cavalry Regiment
  • 3rd West Virginia Volunteer Cavalry Regiment
  • 4th West Virginia Volunteer Cavalry Regiment
  • 5th West Virginia Volunteer Cavalry Regiment
  • 6th West Virginia Volunteer Cavalry Regiment
  • 7th West Virginia Volunteer Cavalry Regiment
  • Battery "A" West Virginia Light Artillery
  • Battery "B" West Virginia Light Artillery
  • Battery "C" West Virginia Light Artillery
  • Battery "D" West Virginia Light Artillery
  • Battery "E" West Virginia Light Artillery
  • Battery "F" West Virginia Light Artillery
  • Battery "G" West Virginia Light Artillery
  • Battery "H" West Virginia Light Artillery

See also

  • Virginia in the Civil War
  • List of American Civil War regiments by state
  • Southern Unionists
  • United States Colored Troops

References

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  • Alderman, John P., Twenty Ninth Virginia Infantry (The Virginia regimental histories series). H. E. Howard, 1st edition, 1989. ISBN 978-0-930919-66-5
  • Ashcraft, John M., Thirty First Virginia Infantry (The Virginia regimental histories series). H. E. Howard, 1st edition, 1988. ISBN 978-0-930919-59-7
  • Cavanaug, Michael A., Sixth Virginia Infantry (The Virginia regimental histories series). H. E. Howard, 1st edition, 1988. ISBN 978-0-930919-57-3
  • Chapla, John D., Forty Eighth Virginia Infantry (The Virginia regimental histories series). H. E. Howard, 1st edition, 1989. ISBN 978-0-930919-67-2
  • Davis, James A., 51st Virginia Infantry (The Virginia regimental histories series). H. E. Howard, 2nd edition, 1984. ISBN 978-0-930919-13-9
  • Delauter, Roger U., McNeill's Rangers (The Virginia regimental histories series). H. E. Howard, 1st edition, 1986. ISBN 978-0-930919-34-4
  • Dickinson, Jack L., Eighth Virginia Infantry (The Virginia regimental histories series). H. E. Howard, 2nd edition, 1986. ISBN 978-0-930919-28-3
  • Driver, Robert J., The First and Second Rockbridge Artillery (The Virginia regimental histories series). H. E. Howard, 2nd edition, 1987. ISBN 978-0-930919-35-1
  • Hearn, Chet, The Civil War: Virginia. Salamander Books, Ltd., 2005. ISBN 978-1-84065-558-2
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  • O'Sullivan, Richard, Fifty Fifth Virginia Infantry (The Virginia regimental histories series). H. E. Howard, 1st edition, 1989. ISBN 978-0-930919-73-3
  • Rankin, Thomas M., 37th Virginia Infantry (The Virginia regimental histories series). H. E. Howard, 1st edition, 1987. ISBN 978-0-930919-44-3
  • Riggs, David F. Thirteenth Virginia Infantry (The Virginia regimental histories series). H. E. Howard, 1st edition, 1988. ISBN 978-0-930919-65-8
  • Riggs, Susan A., Twenty First Virginia Infantry (The Virginia regimental histories series). H. E. Howard, 1st edition, 1991. ISBN 978-1-56190-013-8
  • Ruffner, Kevin Conley, Forty Fourth Virginia Infantry (The Virginia regimental histories series). H. E. Howard, 1st edition, 1987. ISBN 978-0-930919-47-4
  • Scott, J. L., Forty Fifth Virginia Infantry (The Virginia regimental histories series). H. E. Howard, 1st edition, 1989. ISBN 978-0-930919-80-1
  • Sherwood, W. Cullen, The Nelson Artillery - Lamkin and Rives batteries (The Virginia regimental histories series). H. E. Howard, 1st edition, 1991. ISBN 978-1-56190-019-0
  • Sublett, Charles W., 57th Virginia Infantry (The Virginia regimental histories series). H. E. Howard, 1st edition, 1986. ISBN 978-0-930919-24-5
  • Trask, Benjamin H., 9th Virginia Infantry (The Virginia regimental histories series). H. E. Howard, 1st edition, 1984. ISBN 978-0-930919-10-8
  • Trask, Benjamin H., Sixty First Virginia Infantry (The Virginia regimental histories series). H. E. Howard, 1st edition, 1988. ISBN 978-0-930919-64-1
  • Wallace, Lee A, Jr., Fifth Virginia Infantry (The Virginia regimental histories series). H. E. Howard, 1st edition, 1988. ISBN 978-0-930919-51-1
  • Wallace, Lee, The Richmond Howitzers (The Virginia regimental histories series). H. E. Howard, 1st edition, 1994. ISBN 978-1-56190-057-2
  • Wallace, Lee A, Jr., Seventeenth Virginia Infantry (The Virginia regimental histories series). H. E. Howard, 1st edition, 1990. ISBN 978-1-56190-003-9
  • Weaver, Jeffrey C., The Nottoway Artillery & Barr's Battery Virginia Light Artillery (The Virginia regimental histories series). H. E. Howard, 1st edition, 1994. ISBN 978-1-56190-063-3
  • Weaver, Patti O., Reserves (The Virginia regimental histories series). H. E. Howard, 1st edition, 2002. ISBN 978-1-56190-120-3
  • West, P. Michael, 30th Battalion Virginia Sharpshooters (The Virginia regimental histories series). H. E. Howard, 1st edition, 1995. ISBN 978-1-56190-081-7

Text submitted to CC-BY-SA license. Source: List of Virginia Civil War units by Wikipedia (Historical)

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