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.

Military Companies

Union Companies

Infantry

• 1st Regiment, Loyal Eastern Virginia Volunteers
• 1st Regiment, Virginia Infantry (3 months, 1861)
• 16th Regiment, Virginia Infantry
• Dameron's Independent Company, Virginia Volunteers

Cavalry

• Loudoun County Virginia Rangers

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

See Cemetery Records

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 & New Market
Darbytown Road

Deep Bottom I
Deep Bottom II
Dinwiddie Court House
Dranesville

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

Five Forks
Fort Stedman
Fredericksburg
Fredericksburg II

Front Royal
Gaines' Mill
Garnett's & 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