CONFEDERATE VIRGINIA TROOPS
24th Regiment, Virginia Infantry
- Overview:
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24th Infantry Regiment was assembled in June, 1861, with men from Floyd, Franklin,
Carroll, Giles, Pulaski, Mercer, and Henry Counties. It served under Early at First Manassas,
then was assigned to Early's, Kemper's, and W.R. Terry's Brigade, Army of Northern Virginia.
The 24th participated in the campaigns of the army from Williamsburg to Gettysburg except when it was detached to
Suffolk with Longstreet. Later it was involved in the engagements at Plymouth and Drewry's Bluff, the Petersburg siege north of the James River,
and the Appomattox operations. The regiment contained 740 men in April, 1862, and reported
189 casualties at Williamsburg
and 107 at Seven Pines. It lost 4
killed, 61 wounded, and 14 missing at Frayser's Farm, had 8 wounded at Fredericksburg, and had about forty percent
of the 395 engaged at Gettysburg disabled. Many were lost at Sayler's Creek with no officers and 22 men
surrendered on April 9, 1865. The field officers were Colonels Jubal A. Early and William A.
Terry; Lieutenant Colonels Peter Hairston, Jr. and Richard L. Maury; and Majors William W.
Bentley, Joseph A. Hambrick, and J.P. Hammet.
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