Category: 24th Regiment, Virginia Infantry, United States Civil War
Categories: Battle of Gettysburg | Battle of Fredericksburg | Virginia, United States Civil War | Confederate Army Regiments, United States Civil War
24th Regiment, Virginia Infantry assembled in June, 1861, with men from Floyd, Franklin, Carroll, Giles, Pulaski, Mercer, and Henry Counties. It served under Early at First Manassas, then was assigned to Early's, Kemper's, and W R Terry's Brigade, Army of Northern Virginia. The 24th participated in the campaigns of the army from Williamsburg to Gettysburg except when it was detached to Suffolk with Longstreet. Later it was involved in the engagements at Plymouth and Drewry's Bluff, the Petersburg siege north of the James River, and the Appomattox operations. The regiment contained 740 men in April, 1862, and reported 189 casualties at Williamsburg and 107 at Seven Pines. It lost 4 killed, 61 wounded, and 14 missing at Frayser's Farm, had 8 wounded at Fredericksburg, and had about forty percent of the 395 engaged at Gettysburg disabled. Many were lost at Sayler's Creek with no officers and 22 men surrendered on April 9, 1865.
Colonels: Jubal A Early and William A Terry; Lieutenant Colonels Peter Hairston, Jr and Richard L Maury; and Majors William W Bentley, Joseph A Hambrick, and J P Hammet.
See:
This category is managed by the US Civil War Project in association with the Categorization Project. For assistance with this or related categories ask in G2G making sure to tag your question with both categorization and US_Civil_War.
Person Profiles (27)
B
C
D
G
H
J
K
L
M
M cont.
P
R
S
W
This page was last modified 22:41, 1 July 2021. This page has been accessed 653 times.