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Yorktown Battlefield
Confederate Units page 3

ARMY OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA
General Joseph E. Johnston

Right Wing: Maj. Gen. John B. Magruder

McLaws's Division: Brig. Gen. Lafayette McLaws

Semmes's Brigade: Brig. Gen. Paul J. Semmes

5th Louisiana 15th Virginia
10th Louisiana Noland's Virginia Battalion
10th Georgia 1st Louisiana Battalion (Dreux)
Garrett's Williamsburg (Virginia) Battery Young's Halifax (Virginia) Battery

 

 

 

 

 

Griffith's Brigade: Brig. Gen. Richard Griffith

13th Mississippi 1st Louisiana Zouave Battalion (Coppens)
18th Mississippi 21st Mississippi
McCarthy's Richmond Howitzers, 1st Co.  

 

 

 

 

Kershaw's Brigade: Brig. Gen. Joseph B. Kershaw

2d South Carolina 7th South Carolina
3d South Carolina 8th South Carolina
Gracie's Alabama Battalion Kemper's Alexandria (Virginia) Battery

 

 

 

Cobb's Brigade: Brig. Gen. Howell Cobb

16th Georgia 2d Louisiana
24th Georgia 17th Mississippi
Cobb's Georgia Legion 15th North Carolina
Page's Morris Louisa (Virginia) Battery  

 

 

 

 

Artillery: Col. H.C. Cabell

Cosnahan's Peninsula (Virginia) Battery Manly's North Carolina Battery
Sands's Henrico (Virginia) Battery Read's Pulaski (Georgia) Battery

 

 

 

D.R. Jones's Division: Brig. Gen. David R. Jones

Toombs's Brigade: Brig. Gen. Robert Toombs

1st Georgia Regulars 17th Georgia
2d Georgia 20th Georgia
15th Georgia  

 

 

 

G.T. Anderson's Brigade: Col. George T. Anderson

7th Georgia 11th Georgia
8th Georgia 1st Kentucky
9th Georgia  

 

 

 

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Source: To The Gates of Richmond by Stephen Sears, 1992

Yorktown National Cemetery  

Did You Know?
During the Civil War, 632 Union dead were buried in the heart of the 1781 battlefield. In 1866 this cemetery became a national cemetery. Within a 50 mile radius, the remains of over 1500 Union soldiers were disinterred from their war burials and honorably placed in the Yorktown National Cemetery.

Last Updated: June 17, 2006 at 16:44 EST