CONFEDERATE VIRGINIA TROOPS
21st Regiment, Virginia Infantry
- Overview:
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21st Infantry Regiment was organized in June and mustered into Confederate service in
July, 1861, at Fredericksburg, Virginia. Most of the men were recruited in the city of Richmond
and the counties of Charlotte, Mecklenburg, Cumberland, and Buckingham. After participating in
Lee's Cheat Mountain and Jackson's Valley campaigns, the unit was assigned to J.R. Jones's and
W.Terry's Brigade, Army of Northern Virginia. It took an active part in many conflicts from the
Seven Days' Battles to Cold
Harbor, then fought with Early in the Shenandoah Valley and the Appomattox Campaign. This regiment
reported 60 casualties at First
Kernstown and in May, 1862, totalled about 600 effectives. It lost 37 killed and 85 wounded
at Cedar Mountain, had 3 killed
and 9 wounded at Second
Manassas, and reported 4 killed and 40 wounded at Chancellorsville. Of the 236 engaged at Gettysburg about twenty percent
were disabled. Only 6 officers and 50 men surrendered. The field officers were Colonels William
Gilham, John M. Patton, Jr., and William A. Witcher; Lieutenant Colonels Richard H.
Cunningham, Jr., and William P. Moseley; and Majors William R. Berkeley, Alfred D. Kelly, John
B. Moseley, and Scott Shipp.
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