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Confederate Troops: Virginia

Infantry:

1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th (Liberty Hall Volunteers), 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th, 21st, 22nd, 23rd, 24th, 25th, 26th, 28th, 29th, 30th, 31st, 32nd, 33rd (see Notes below), 36th, 37th, 38th, 40th, 41st, 42nd, 44th, 45th, 47th, 48th, 49th, 51st, 52nd, 54th, 55th, 56th, 57th, 58th, 61st, 62nd, 63rd, Stonewall Brigade (see Notes below).

Cavalry:

1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 6th, 8th, 9th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 20th, 21st, 35th, 36th, 37th, 43rd (Mosby's Partisan Rangers), 56th, Laurel Brigade, McNeill's Partisan Rangers, Mounted Reserves.

Light Artillery:

38th (see Notes below), Alexandria Artillery, Alleghany Artillery (Carpenter's Battery; "Alleghany Roughs"), Bedford Artillery, Botetourt Artillery, Brooke Artillery, Bryan's Battery (Monroe Artillery; Lewisburg Artillery), Chapman's Battery (Monroe "Dixie" Artillery), Charlottesville Battery, Danville Artillery, Dixie (Page County) Artillery, Fauquier Artillery, Fredericksburg Artillery (see Notes below), French's Battery, Giles Light Artillery, Grandy's Battery (Norfolk "Light Artillery Blues" Battery), Jackson Artillery (Winchester Artillery), Jeff Davis Artillery, King William Artillery, Lamkin's Battery (Amherst-Nelson Light Artillery), Loudoun Artillery, Lowry's Battery ("Centreville Rifles"), Lynchburg "Lee" Battery, Page-Shenandoah "Eighth Star" ("New Market") Artillery, Page's Battery (Louisa "Morris" Artillery), Pegram's Battalion (see Notes below), Richmond "Crenshaw" Artillery (see Notes below), Richmond "Fayette" Artillery (see Notes below), Richmond Howitzers, Richmond "Letcher" Artillery (see Notes below), Richmond "Orange" Artillery, Richmond "Parker" Battery, Richmond "Purcell" Artillery (see Notes below), Rives' Battery (Nelson Light Artillery), Rockbridge Artillery, Staunton Artillery, Stuart Horse Artillery, Surry Light Artillery.

Notes:

33rd Infantry/Stonewall Brigade: The Virginia 33rd Infantry Regiment was part of the Stonewall Brigade from October 1861 to May 1864. See Stewart Sifakis, Compendium of the Confederate Armies: Virginia (New York, Oxford: Facts on File, 1992), p. 221.

38th Artillery Battalion/Richmond "Fayette" Artillery: In November 1862, the Fayette Artillery Battery formed part of a Virginia artillery battalion commanded by Captain (from January 1863, Major) James Dearing. Dearing's battalion was designated the 38th Artillery Battalion in June 1863, and the Fayette Artillery became Company B of that battalion. See Robert H. Moore, The Richmond Fayette, Hampden, Thomas, and Blount's Lynchburg Artillery (Lynchburg, VA: M.E. Howard, 1991), pp. 65-67, 74; Sifakis, pp. 9-10.

Pegram's Battalion: This unit comprised a number of batteries from Virginia and elsewhere, including the Crenshaw, Fredericksburg, Letcher, and Purcell Artillery. See Sifakis, pp. 35-36, 67-68, 76-77, 81-82.

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