2nd Virginia Infantry Regiment

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2nd Virginia Infantry Regiment
Flag of Virginia, 1861
ActiveMay 1861 – Spring 1865
Disbanded1865
Country Confederate States of America
Allegiance Virginia
Branch Confederate States Army
TypeRegiment
RoleInfantry
EngagementsAmerican Civil War
Commanders
Notable
commanders		Colonel J.Q.A. Nadenbousch
Major Bernard Likens Wolff of Co. D, 2nd Virginia Infantry

The 2nd Virginia Infantry Regiment was an

33rd Virginia infantry regiments and the Rockbridge Artillery Battery and fight as part of what became known as the Stonewall Brigade, mostly with the Army of Northern Virginia.[1]

Units

The 2nd Virginia was assembled at

Harper's Ferry to seize the armory. Its ten companies were from the counties of Clarke, Frederick, Jefferson, and Berkeley
.

Sortable table
Company Nickname Recruited at First Commanding Officer
A Jefferson Guards Jefferson County John W. Rowan
B Hamtramck Guards Shepherdstown, Jefferson County Vincent Moore Butler
C Nelson Rifles Millwood, Clarke County William N. Nelson
D Berkeley Border Guards Martinsburg, Berkeley County John Q.A. Nadenbousch
E Hedgesville Blues Hedgesville, Berkeley County Raleigh T. Colston
F Winchester Riflemen Winchester, Frederick County William L. Clark, Jr
G Botts Greys Charles Town, Jefferson County Lawson Botts
H Letcher Riflemen Duffields, Jefferson County James H.L. Hunter
I Clarke Rifles Berryville, Clarke County Strother H. Bowen
K Floyd Guards Harpers Ferry, Jefferson County George W. Chambers

Campaigns

Private Samuel T. Cowley of Co. A, 2nd Virginia Infantry Regiment

As the volunteer units approached the armory, they heard a roar and saw a flash as Lt. Roger Jones and his U.S. army regulars blew up the arsenal at 10p.m.[2] Capt. John Rowan and the Jefferson Guards led the volunteers into Harpers Ferry three hours later, meeting no opposition and noticing that while 15,000 weapons had been destroyed, townspeople had saved the buildings and weapon-producing machinery inside. That machinery was soon shipped to the Tredegar Iron Works in Richmond, Virginia for Confederate use.

VMI professor Thomas Jonathan Jackson arrived on Monday, April 29 and organized the volunteer craftsmen, laborers and farmers of the ten drilled companies into regiments, revolutionizing their notions of war in a short time. Col. Allen and Lt. Col. Francis Lackland had both graduated in the VMI class of 1849. Captains John W. Rowan (of the Jefferson Guards of Charles Town), Vincent Moore Butler (of the Hamtramck Guards of Shepherdstown), William N. Nelson (of the Nelson Rifles of Millwood) and George W. Chambers (of the Floyd Guards raised in Harpers Ferry) had military experience in Mexico. Throughout May (as the units were mustered officially into Virginia state service mid-month), Jackson assiduously drilled the men, 12 hours each day; they learned complex maneuvers and began jelling into a single unit.[3][4]

The unit became part of the

1st Virginia Infantry was established at Richmond in May 1861 and composed of regular Virginia troops. As part of the Stonewall Brigade, the 2nd Virginia fought under Generals T.J. Jackson, R.B. Garnett, Winder, Paxton, J.A. Walker, and W. Terry
.

The 2nd Virginia fought at many famous battles throughout the conflict. In addition to First Manassas, it fought at Second Manassas (after

operations in the Shenandoah Valley and finally surrendered at the end at Appomattox Court House
on April 9, 1865, with 9 officers and 62 men. A notable death from the Regiment was that of Private John Wesley Culp, who was killed on his uncle's farm in Gettysburg (hence "Culp's Hill").

Significant members

Its field officers were Colonels James W. Allen (who died at the Battle of Cold Harbor),[6] Lawson Botts (of the Botts Greys, initially raised at Charles Town as Company G, killed in skirmishes shortly before Second Manassas), and John Q.A. Nadenbousch (initially of Company D, the Berkeley Border Guards, raised at Martinsburg); Lieutenant Colonels Francis Lackland (a VMI graduate of the same 1849 VMI class as Col. Allen, who would be hospitalized with pneumonia and die in September 1861); Raleigh T. Colston (initially of Company E, the Hedgesville Blues, and who became the unit's colonel after Nadenbousch was forced to retire following complications after the Battle of Gettysburg and who died at the Battle of Mine Run in November 1864), and William W. Randolph; and Majors Francis B. Jones, Edwin L. Moore, and Charles H. Stewart.

Dr.

Isaac Trimble after Gettysburg), initially enlisted as a private in Company F. He became active with the Medical Society of Virginia and a president of the American Medical Association, and later contributed to the First Geneva Convention
.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Stonewall Brigade – Encyclopedia Virginia".
  2. ^ Dennis E. Frye, 2nd Virginia Infantry (Lynchburg, H.E. Howard Inc. Virginia Regimental History Series, 1st edition 1984) p. 4
  3. ^ Frye pp. 6-8
  4. ^ "2nd Virginia Infantry Regiment".
  5. ^ Frye pp. 9-11
  6. ^ Walker, Charles D. (1875). Memorial, Virginia Military Institute: Biographical Sketches of the Graduates and Élèves of the Virginia Military Institute who Fell During the War Between the States. J. B. Lippincott & Company.
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