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25th Regiment, Virginia Infantry (Heck's)
- Overview:
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25th Infantry Regiment was organized during the early summer of 1861 and included the
four companies of the 9th Battalion Virginia Infantry. Its members were raised in Upshur,
Augusta, Highland, Bath, Pendleton, and Rockbridge counties. The unit participated in Lee's Cheat Mountain Campaign and
Jackson's Valley operations before being assigned to General Early's, J.R. Jones', and W.Terry's
Brigade, Army of Northern Virginia. It took an active part in the campaigns of the army from the
Seven Days' Battles to Cold
Harbor, then fought with Early in the Shenandoah Valley and in various conflicts around Appomattox. This regiment reported
18 casualties at Camp
Alleghany, 72 at McDowell,
and 29 at Cross Keys and Port Republic. It lost 1 killed and 24
wounded at Cedar Mountain, had
3 killed and 20 wounded at Sharpsburg, and reported 1 killed and 13
wounded at Fredericksburg. Of
the 280 engaged at Gettysburg,
twenty-five percent were disabled. There were no members of the 25th at Appomattox on April
9, 1865. The field officers were Colonels John C. Higginbotham, George A. Porterfield, and
George H. Smith; Lieutenant Colonels Patrick B. Duffy, Jonathon M. Heck, Robert D. Lilley, and
John A. Robinson; and Majors Wilson Harper, Albert G. Reger, and William T. Thompson.
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