Virginia Civil War Confederate Artillery Units

Regiments

• 1st Regiment, Richmond Howitzers, Virginia Artillery

  Enlisted on April 21, 1861.

  Reorganized in May 1862.

  Captured as part of Walker's column on April 8, 1865.

• 1st Regiment, Virginia Artillery

  Organized in September, 1861

  On September 2, 1864, the unit was reduced to a battalion and its designation changed to the 1st Battalion Virginia Artillery

• 2nd Regiment, Virginia Artillery

  Organized in February, 1862

• 3rd Artillery Regiment
• 3rd Regiment, Virginia Light Artillery (Local Defense)

  organized on March 5, 1862

• 4th Virginia Heavy Artillery Regiment

  Formed in May 1862

• 5th Regiment, Virginia Artillery

Battalions

• 1st Battalion, Virginia Light Artillery
• 10th Battalion, Virginia Heavy Artillery

  Organized April 14, 1862

  Surrendered at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865

• 12th Battalion, Virginia Light Artillery

  organized with four companies during May, 1862

• 13th Battalion, Virginia Light Artillery
• 16th Battalion, Virginia Heavy Artillery
• 18th Battalion, Virginia Heavy Artillery

  organized in June 1862

  It surrendered ar Appomattox with 2 officers and 23 men

• 18th Battalion, Virginia Light Artillery
• 19th Battalion, Virginia Heavy Artillery (Atkinson's)
• 20th Battalion, Virginia Heavy Artillery

  organized June, 1862

• 38th Battalion, Virginia Light Artillery

Companies

• Pelham's Company, Virginia Horse Artillery
• Moorman-Shoemaker's Company, Virginia Horse Artillery 
• Petersburg Light Artillery

Batteries

• 1st Regiment, Virginia Light Artillery

  An attempt was made to organize this regiment during early 1861, but it was evidently not completed.

  It appears to have been disbanded prior to April 26, 1862.

• 2nd Richmond Battery, Virginia
• Albemarle Artillery
• Alleghany Light Artillery
• Amherst Light Artillery
• Barr's Company, Virginia Light Artillery
• Bedford Artillery
• Bedford Light Artillery
• Botetourt Light Artillery
• Botetourt Artillery

  AKA - Bowyer's Company, Virginia Heavy Artillery

• Branch Field Artillery

  AKA - Pegram's Company, Virginia Light Artillery

• Bryan Artillery

  AKA - Bryan's Company, Virginia Artillery or Monroe Artillery

  Roster

• Campbell Battery

  AKA - Patterson's Company, Virginia Heavy Artillery

• Caroline Light Artillery
• Charlottesville Light Artillery 
• Crenshaw Battery
• Danville Artillery
• Dixie Light Artillery
• Fluvanna Light Artillery
• Fredericksburg Light Artillery
• Giles Light Artillery 
• Halifax Heavy Artillery

  AKA - Wright's Company, Virginia Heavy Artillery

  Roster

• Halifax Light Artillery

  AKA - Young's Company, Virginia Artillery

  Roster

• Hanover Light Artillery
• Henrico Artillery

  AKA - Courtney Artillery, Virginia

• Jackson Light Artillery
• James City Artillery
• Johnston Artillery

  AKA - Epes' Company, Virginia Heavy Artillery

  Roster

• Letcher Light Artillery
• Long Island Light Artillery
• Loudoun Light Artillery
• Lunenberg Heavy Artillery
• Magruder Light Artillery
• Manchester Light Artillery

  AKA - Weisiger's Company, Virginia Light Artillery

  Roster

• Marion Artillery

  AKA - Richmond Local Guards Wilkinson's Company, Virginia Heavy Artillery (Company A)

• Matthews' Artillery

  AKA - Armistead's Company, Virginia Light Artillery

• Middlesex Light Artillery
• Monroe "Dixie" Artillery 
• Nelson Light Artillery No. 1
• Nelson Light Artillery No. 2
• New Market Artillery

  AKA - Rice's Company, Virginia Light Artillery or 8th Star Artillery

• Norfolk Blues Light Artillery
• Nottoway Light Artillery
• Orange Light Artillery
• Pamunkey Heavy Artillery 
• Pittsylvania Artillery

  AKA - Motley's Company, Virginia Light Artillery

Roster

• Portsmouth Light Artillery
• Powhatan Light Artillery
• Purcell Light Artillery
• Richmond Howitzers
• Rockbridge Light Artillery
• Salem Flying Artillery

  AKA - Griffin's Company, Virginia Light Artillery

• Saltville Artillery

  AKA - King's Company, Virginia Light Artillery

• Southside Light Artillery
• Staunton Light Artillery 
• Staunton Hill Light Artillery
• Surry Light Artillery
• Turner Light Artillery
• United Light Artillery
• Wise Artillery

Misc

• Stonewall Artillery, Virginia
• Virginia Artillery
• Coffin's Company, Virginia Heavy Artillery
• Coleman's Company, Virginia Heavy Artillery
• Forrest's Company, Virginia Artillery (Chesapeake Artillery)
• Johnston's Battery, Virginia Artillery
• Kyle's Company, Virginia Heavy Artillery
• Lanier's Company, Virginia Artillery (Local Defense and Special Service)
• Read's Company, Virginia Heavy Artillery
• Artillery Detachment, Virginia Military Institute
• Wise Legion, Virginia Artillery
• Ancell's Company, Virginia Light Artillery
• Clutter's Company, Virginia Light Artillery
• Cooper's Company, Virginia Light Artillery
• Donald's Company, Virginia Light Artillery
• E.J. Anderson's Company, Virginia Light Artillery
• Goochland Light Artillery, Virginia
• Jackson's Battalion, Light Artillery, Virginia State Line

  Jackson Light Artillery was organized at Winchester, Virginia, during March, 1862. It was active in Jackson's Valley Campaign, then served with the Army of Northern Virginia from the Seven Days' Battles to Sharpsburg. In September the unit was mustered out of service and the men joined in the Alleghany Light Artillery. Its commander was Captain Wilford E. Cutshaw.

• J.R. Johnson's Company, Virginia Light Artillery
• Lamkin's Company, Virginia Light Artillery
• Lowry's Company, Virginia Light Artillery (Centreville Rifles)
• Lumkin's Company, Virginia Light Artillery
• Montgomery's Company, Virginia Light Artillery
• Moore's Company, Virginia Light Artillery
• Otey's Company, Virginia Light Artillery, Local Defense
• Virginia Light Artillery, Provisional Army of the Confederate States
• Parker's Company, Virginia Light Artillery
• Penick's Company, Virginia Light Artillery
• Sturdivant's Company, Virginia Light Artillery
• Taylor's Company, Virginia Light Artillery
• Turner's Company, Virginia Light Artillery
• Utterback's Company, Virginia Light Artillery
• Waters' Company, Virginia Light Artillery
• W.P. Carter's Company, Virginia Light Artillery
• Woolfolk's Company, Virginia Light Artillery (Ashland Light Artillery)
• Virginia Horse Artillery
• Shank's Company, Virginia Horse Artillery
• McClanahan's Company, Virginia Horse Artillery
• Jackson's Company, Virginia Horse Artillery (2nd Organization 1863-65)
• J.W. Carter's Company, Virginia Horse Artillery
• G.W. Brown's Company, Virginia Horse Artillery
• Lurty's Company, Virginia Horse Artillery