CONFEDERATE VIRGINIA TROOPS
4th Regiment, Virginia Infantry
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4th Infantry Regiment was assembled at Winchester, Virginia, in July, 1861. Its companies
were from the counties of Wythe, Montgomery, Pulaski, Smyth, Grayson, and Rockbridge. It
became part of the Stonewall Brigade and served under Generals T.J. Jackson, T.B. Garnett,
Winder, Paxton, J.A. Walker, and W. Terry. The regiment fought at First Manassas, First Kernstown, and in Jackson's Valley
Campaign. It then participated in many conflicts of the Army of Northern Virginia from the
Seven Days' Battles to Cold
Harbor, was with Early in the Shenandoah Valley, and saw action around Appomattox. The unit reported 5 killed, 23
wounded, and 48 missing at First Kernstown, took 317 effectives to Port Republic, had 7 killed
and 25 wounded at Malvern Hill,
and had 19 killed and 78 wounded of the 180 at Second Manassas. It lost forty-eight percent of
the 355 engaged at Chancellorsville and more than fifty percent
of the 257 at Gettysburg. The
regiment surrendered with 7 officers and 38 men of which only 17 were armed. Its field officers
were Colonels James T. Preston, Charles A. Ronald, and William Terry; Lieutenant Colonels
Robert D. Gardner and Lewis T. Moore; and Majors Matthew D. Bennett, Joseph F. Kent, and
Albert G. Pendleton.
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