CONFEDERATE VIRGINIA TROOPS
19th Regiment, Virginia Infantry
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19th Infantry Regiment, organized at Manassas Junction, Virginia, in May, 1861, contained
men recruited at Charlottesville and in the counties of Albemarle, Nelson, and Amherst. It fought
at First Manassas under General Cocke, then was assigned to General Pickett's, Garnett's, and
Hunton's Brigade. The 19th participated in the campaigns of the Army of Northern Virginia from
Williamsburg to Gettysburg except when it was with
Longstreet at Suffolk. Later it served in North Carolina, returned to Virginia, and was active at Drewry's Bluff and Cold Harbor. Continuing the fight, it was
engaged in the Petersburg siege
north of the James River and the Appomattox Campaign. It reported 6
casualties at First Manassas and
in April, 1862, totalled 650 effectives. The regiment had 138 casualties during the Seven Days'
Battles and lost forty-two percent of the 150 in the Maryland Campaign and more than forty-five
percent of the 328 engaged at Gettysburg. Many were captured at Sayler's Creek, and only 1 officer and 29
men surrendered. The field officers were Colonels P. St. George Cocke, Henry Gantt, Armistead
T.M. Rust, and John B. Strange; Lieutenant Colonels John T. Ellis, Charles S. Peyton, and
Bennett Taylor; and Majors Waller M. Boyd and William Watts.
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