Confederate Regiments & Batteries > Virginia
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1863
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| August 27 | Created from troops of the Virginia State Line under the command of Colonel William E. Peters, Lieutenant Colonel David Edmundson, and Major Stephen P. Halsey. Assigned to Jones’s Cavalry Brigade, Ransom’s Division, Department of Western Virginia and East Tennessee. |
| November-December |
Siege of Knoxville |
| November 6 | Rogersville, Tennessee |
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1864
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| January-February | Assigned to Jones’s Cavalry Brigade, Ransom’s Division, Department of Western Virginia |
| February-March | Assigned to Jones’s Brigade, Cavalry, Department of East Tennessee |
| February 22 | Gibson’s and Wyerman’s Mills, Indian Creek |
| March-April | Assigned to Jones’s Brigade, Jones’s Division, Cavalry Corps, Department of East Tennessee |
| April | Assigned to Jones’s Brigade, Cavalry, Department of East Tennessee. The regiment mustered 317 men. |
| May | Assigned to Jones’s-B.T. Johnson’s Brigade, Department of West Virginia |
| May 9 |
Battle of Cloyd’s Mountain |
| June 5 |
Battle of Piedmont |
| June |
Lynchburg Campaign |
| July | Assigned to B.T. Johnson’s Brigade, Ransom’s-Lomax’s Cavalry Division, Army of the Valley District |
| July 9 |
Battle of Monocacy |
| July 30 |
Burning of ChambersburgColonel William Peters refused to obey the order to burn the town. He was placed under temporary arrest and his regiment sent out of town. |
| August 1 |
Battle of Folke’s Mill |
| August 2 |
Battle of Oldtown (Green Spring) |
| August 7 |
MoorfieldColonel Peters was badly injured when the Confederate forces were surprised in a dawn attack by Averill’s Union cavalry. |
| September 19 |
Third Battle of Winchester |
| September 22 |
Battle of Fisher’s Hill |
| October 19 |
Battle of Cedar Creek |
| November | Assigned to McCausland’s Brigade, Lomax’s Cavalry Division, Army of the Valley District |
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1865
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| March | Assigned to McCausland’s Brigade, Rosser’s Division, Cavalry Corps, Army of Northern Virginia |
| April 9 | Appomattox Court House |