CONFEDERATE VIRGINIA TROOPS
1st Regiment, Virginia Reserves (Fairnholt's)
- Overview:
- 1st Regiment Reserves was organized in August, 1864, by consolidating Fainholt's and Averett's Battalions Virginia Reserves which had just been formed. With 318 effectives the unit was assigned to General J.A. Walker's Brigade, Department of North Carolina and Southern Virginia, and was posted at High Bridge, Mattoax, and the Staunton River Bridge. Then in February, 1865, it was on duty at Clover Depot, Richmond and Danville Railroad, and contained 17 officers and 206 men. Later the regiment was transferred to General P.T. Moore's Brigade in the Department of Richmond. During the Appomattox Campaign most of its members were captured at Sayler's Creek. The field officers were Colonel Benjamin L. Farinholt, Lieutenant Colonel Thomas T. Boswell, and Major C.E. Averett.
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