13th Virginia Infantry Regiment

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13th Virginia Infantry Regiment
Flag of Virginia (1861).png
Flag of Virginia, 1861
ActiveSummer 1861 – Spring 1865
DisbandedApril 1865
Country Confederacy
Allegiance Flag of the Confederate States of America (1865).svg Confederate States of America
Role Infantry
Engagements American Civil War:First Battle of Bull Run-Battle of Cross Keys-Battle of Port Republic-Seven Days' Battles-Battle of Cedar Mountain-Second Battle of Bull Run-Battle of Antietam-Battle of Fredericksburg-Battle of Chancellorsville-Battle of Cold Harbor-Siege of Petersburg-Valley Campaigns of 1864
Commanders
Notable
commanders		Colonel A.P. Hill
Colonel James A. Walker
Private Richard F. Bernard of Co. A, 13th Virginia Infantry Regiment Private Richard F. Bernard of Co. A, 13th Virginia Infantry Regiment, in uniform LCCN2012649887.jpg
Private Richard F. Bernard of Co. A, 13th Virginia Infantry Regiment

The 13th Virginia Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment raised in central and western Virginia for service in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. It fought mostly with the Army of Northern Virginia. [1]

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Its commanders were Colonels George A. Goodman, Ambrose P. Hill, James B. Terrill, and James A. Walker; and Majors Charles T. Crittenden and John B. Sherrard.

Sortable table
CompanyNicknameRecruited atCommanding Officers
AMontpelier Guard Orange County Champ G. Cooke, George Cullen, Benjamin F. Naile Weisiger
BCulpeper Minute Men Culpeper County Charles T. Crittenden, Williamson G. George, Waller T. Patton, Zephaniah T. Ross
CGordonsville Grays Orange County George A. Goodman, Charles H. Richards, William C. Scott
DLouisa Blues Louisa County John W. Hibbs, Henry W. Murray, Frank V. Winston
ECulpeper Riflemen
Brandy Rifles		 Culpeper County Stockton Heth, William A. Ashby, John L. Brooks, Daniel Field
FBarboursville Guards Orange County Andrew J. Eheart, Charles L. Graves, Conway Newman, William S. Parran
GLanier Guard Maryland Frank T. Hill, Alexander G. Taliaferro
HFort Loudoun Guards
Winchester Boomerangs		 Winchester
Frederick County 		Samuel D. Buck, William H. Harrison, Lewis N. Huck, William H. Sherer
IFrontier Rifles
Hampshire Guard		 Hampshire County Job N. Cookus, Abraham Smith, Robert White, Felix Heiskell, John B. Sherrard

The 13th Virginia completed its organization during the summer of 1861 with men from Winchester and Culpeper, Orange, Louisa, and Hampshire counties, and one company from Maryland. [2] The original Companies B and E enlisted only for 6 months, the others for one year. At the end of that year, their service was extended for the duration of the war.

Kennedy Palmer, Co. H. 13th Va. Inft., 1861 Portrait of Kennedy Palmer in uniform.PNG
Kennedy Palmer, Co. H. 13th Va. Inft., 1861

After fighting at First Manassas and in Jackson's Valley Campaign, it served in General Early's, W.Smith's, Pegram's, and J.A. Walker's Brigade. The 13th was prominent in the campaigns of the Army of Northern Virginia from the Seven Days' Battles to Cold Harbor, then it moved with Gen. Jubal Early to the Shenandoah Valley and later was involved in the Appomattox operations.

It reported 16 casualties at Cross Keys and Port Republic, 111 at Gaines Mill, 34 at Cedar Mountain, 46 at Second Manassas, 22 at Fredericksburg, and 36 at Chancellorsville. During the Gettysburg Campaign it was left at Winchester as provost guard. The unit sustained heavy losses at the Battle of Cedar Creek and surrendered at Appomattox Court House with 10 officers and 52 men.

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Notes

  1. ↑ Riggs, David F. (1988). 13th Virginia Infantry, The Virginia Regimental History Series. Lynchburg, VA: H. E. Howard Inc.
  2. ↑ Mountaineers of the Blue and Gray, The Civil War and West Virginia, George Tyler Moore Center for the Study of the Civil War, Shepherd Univ., 2008, CD-Rom

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