CONFEDERATE VIRGINIA TROOPS
11th Regiment, Virginia Infantry
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11th Infantry Regiment was organized at Lynchburg, Virginia, in May, 1861, and accepted
into Confederate service in July. Its members were raised in the counties of Campbell, Botetourt,
Montgomery, Fauquier, Culpeper, and Rockbridge. The unit fought at First Manassas under General Longstreet
and at Dranesville under J.E.B.
Stuart. Later it was assigned to General A.P. Hill's, Kemper's, and W.R. Terry's Brigade, Army
of Northern Virginia. It served with the army from Williamsburg to Gettysburg except when it was at Suffolk with Longstreet. The 11th was
engaged at Plymouth in North
Carolina and after returning to Virginia saw action at Drewry's Bluff and Cold Harbor. It went on to fight in the Petersburg trenches south and north
of the James River and ended the war at Appomattox. This regiment reported 6
killed and 15 wounded at Dranesville, totalled 750 men in April, 1862, and lost 134 at
Williamsburg and 100 at Frayser's Farm. It sustained 63 casualties at Second Manassas, had
about forty percent disabled of the 359 engaged at Gettysburg, and lost 15 killed and 94 wounded
at Drewry's Bluff. Many were captured at Sayler's Creek, and only 1 officer and 28
men surrendered. The field officers were Colonels David Funsten, Samuel Garland, Jr., Maurice
S. Langhorne, and Kirkwood Otey; and Majors Adam Clement, Carter H. Harrison, and J.R.
Hutter.
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