35th Battalion, Virginia Cavalry (Confederate)

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Brief History
The 35th Battalion, Virginia Cavalry Organized in January 1862, by adding companies to E. V. White's Cavalry Company. Containing six companies, it was assigned to W. E. Jones', Rosser's, and J. Dearing's Brigade in the Army of Northern Virginia. This unit skirmished in western Virginia and during the Gettysburg operations remained in the state. Later it was active in the Shenandoah Valley and disbanded during April 1865. Lieutenant Colonel Elijah V. White, and Majors George M. Ferneyhough and Franklin M. Myers were in command.

Companies in this Regiment with the Counties of Origin
Men often enlisted in a company recruited in the counties where they lived though not always. After many battles, companies might be combined because so many men were killed or wounded. However if you are unsure which company your ancestor was in, try the company recruited in his county first.

Company A (Captain Frank Myers'Company) (formerly White's Rebels)

Company B (Chiswell's Maryland Exiles)

Company C (Captain R. B. Grubb)

Company D ( Captain James Trayhern's Company)

Company E (Captain John H. Grabill's Company) - many men from Page and Shenandoah County

Company F Captain George N. Ferneyhough's Company)

The information above is from 35th Battalion Virginia Cavalry, by John E. Divine.


 * Field &amp; Staff
 * Company A


 * Company C


 * Company D


 * Company E


 * Company F
 * Company G
 * Company H

Other Sources

 * Bushong, Millard K. General Turner Ashby and Stonewall's Valley Campaign. Waynesboro, Va.: McClung Companies, 1992, c1980..


 * McDonald, William Naylor. A History of the Laurel Brigade: Originally the Ashby Cavalry of the Army of Northern Virginia and Chew's Battery. n.p.: K.S. McDonald, 1907. Digital version at Internet Archive;.


 * McDonald, William Naylor and Bushrod Corbin Washington. Laurel Brigade, Originally Ashby's Cavalry. 1907; reprint, Gaithersburg, Md.: Olde Soldier Books, 1987..


 * Myers, Frank M. The Commanches: A History of White's Battalion, Virginia Cavalry, Laurel Brig., Hampton Div., A.N.V., C.S.A. Baltimore, Md.: Kelly, Piet & Co., 1871..

National Park Service, The Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System, (accessed December 2010).