Virginia in the Civil War

Introduction
Virginia was a prominent part of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. Many of the battles fought during the war were fought on Virginian land. The first and last significant battles were held in Virginia and the men that Virginina supplied for the fight were men from all economic and social levels, both slaveholders and nonslaveholders, as well as former Unionists. The only areas that sent few or no men to fight for the Confederacy were located on the border with the North.

The state was the focal point for a number of reasons. It had more manufacturers and more mines than any other state, it had nearly 20% of the railroad track of the Southern states. Its state capital, Richmond, was also the Confederacy's capital. Because armies focus on capturing the enemy's capital, the Federals concentrated on capturing Richmond. The Confederates in turn worked to capture Washington D.C. The counties in between were doomed to suffer mass devastation. By 1865, the state's handsome towns were wrecked, its manufacturing centers destroyed, its farms ruined. Virginians starved and found themselves prey to foraging soldiers, looters and lawless bands. And a half million men became casualties within its borders.

Union Companies

 * 1st Regiment, Loyal Eastern Virginia Volunteers "Compendium of the War of the Rebellion" by Frederick H. Dyer contains no history for this unit.


 * 1st Regiment, Virginia Infantry (3 months, 1861) "Compendium of the War of the Rebellion" by Frederick H. Dyer contains no history for this unit.


 * 16th Regiment, Virginia Infantry "Compendium of the War of the Rebellion" by Frederick H. Dyer contains no history for this unit.


 * Dameron's Independent Company, Virginia Volunteers "Compendium of the War of the Rebellion" by Frederick H. Dyer contains no history for this unit.


 * Loudoun County Virginia Rangers Organized at Waterford, Virginia (Company A on 20 June 1862) and Point of Rocks, Maryland (Company B on 26 January 1864). Mustered out at Bolivar, West Virginia, 31 May 1865.

Confederate

 * List of Field Officers Regiments and Battalions in the Confederate States Army 1861-1865 Google Books

Regiments

Battalions

Companies

Additional Units Listings
For those that know the type of regiment that an ancestor served in, select the type below.

Artillery

Infantry

Cavalry

Militia

Other

Military Cemeteries
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Battles Fought in Virginia
Aldie Amelia Springs Appomattox Courthouse Appomattox Station

Aquia Creek Auburn Auburn Ball's Bluff

Beaver Dam Creek Berryville Big Bethel Blackburn's Ford

Boydton Plank Road Brandy Station Bristoe Station Buckland Mills

Cedar Creek Cedar Mountain Chaffin's Farm Chancellorsville

Chantilly Chester Station Cloyd's Mountain Cockpit Point

Cold Harbor Cool Spring Cove Mountain Crater

Cross Keys Cumberland Church Darbytown &amp; New Market Darbytown Road

Deep Bottom I Deep Bottom II Dinwiddie Court House Dranesville

Drewry's Bluff Eltham's Landing Fair Oaks &amp; Darbytown Rd Fisher's Hill

Five Forks Fort Stedman Fredericksburg Fredericksburg II

Front Royal Gaines' Mill Garnett's &amp; Golding's Farm Glendale

Globe Tavern Guard Hill Hampton Roads Hanover Courthouse

Hatcher's Run Haw's Shop Jerusalem Plank Road High Bridge

Kelly's Ford Kernstown I Kernstown II Lewis's Farm

Lynchburg Malvern Hill Manassas I Manassas II

Manassas Gap Manassas Station Ops. Marion McDowell

Middleburg Mine Run Morton's Ford Namozine Church

New Market New Market Heights North Anna Oak Grove

Old Church Opequon Peebles' Farm Petersburg

Petersburg Petersburg Piedmont Port Republic

Port Walthall Junction Proctor's Creek Rappahannock Station Rappahannock Station

Ream's Station Ream's Station Rice's Station Rutherford's Farm

Saint Mary's Church Salem Church Saltville Saltville

Sappony Church Savage's Station Sailor's Creek Seven Pines

Sewell's Point Staunton River Bridge Spotsylvania Court House Suffolk / Hill's Point

Suffolk /Norfleet House Sutherland's Station Swift Creek Thoroughfare Gap

Tom's Brook Trevilian Station Totopotomy Ck/Bethesda Ch Upperville

Walkerton Ware Bottom Church Waynesboro White Oak Road

White Oak Swamp Wilderness Williamsburg Wilson's Wharf

Winchester I Winchester II Yellow Tavern Yorktown