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List of Virginia units in the American Civil War

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 from a southern state after Tennessee and North Carolina. This list includes Virginia Civil War units to both the Confederate States and Union armies.

Infantry units (PACS)

Infantry brigades

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

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

See also

References

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