13th Virginia Infantry Regiment
Flag of Virginia, 1861
ActiveSummer 1861 – Spring 1865
DisbandedApril 1865
CountryConfederacy
AllegianceConfederate States of America Confederate States of America
RoleInfantry
EngagementsAmerican 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

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]

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
Company Nickname Recruited at Commanding Officers
AMontpelier GuardOrange CountyChamp G. Cooke, George Cullen, Benjamin F. Naile Weisiger
BCulpeper Minute MenCulpeper CountyCharles T. Crittenden, Williamson G. George, Waller T. Patton, Zephaniah T. Ross
CGordonsville GraysOrange CountyGeorge A. Goodman, Charles H. Richards, William C. Scott
DLouisa BluesLouisa CountyJohn W. Hibbs, Henry W. Murray, Frank V. Winston
ECulpeper Riflemen
Brandy Rifles		Culpeper CountyStockton Heth, William A. Ashby, John L. Brooks, Daniel Field
FBarboursville GuardsOrange CountyAndrew J. Eheart, Charles L. Graves, Conway Newman, William S. Parran
GLanier GuardMarylandFrank 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 CountyJob 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

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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