Confederate Regiments & Batteries * Virginia
The 26th Virginia Infantry Regiment was formed in Virginia in June of 1861 and was surrendered at Appomattox Court House in April of 1865.
1861
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May-June | Organized on the Virginia Peninsula for one years service under the command of Colonel Charles A. Crump. Company B was made up of volunteers from Mississippi. |
July 1 | Transferred to Confederate service and assigned to the Department of the Peninsula. |
October 16 | Company B was transferred to the 2nd Mississippi Infantry Battalion. All the companies were relettered and a new Company K was created. Assigned to Gloucester Point, Department of the Peninsula, Crump’s Command. |
1862
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April-May |
Siege of YorktownAssigned to Gloucester Point, Rains’s Division, D.H. Hill’s Command, Department of Northern Virginia |
May | Assigned to Rodes’s Brigade, D.H. Hill’s Division, Army of Northern Virginia |
May 5 |
Battle of Williamsburg |
May 13 | The regiment was reorganized for the duration of the war. Powhatan Page was elected colonel. It mustered 31 officers and 424 enlisted men. Assigned to Wise’s Brigade, D.H. Hill’s Division, Army of Northern Virginia. |
June 25-July 1 |
Seven Days Battles |
July | Assigned to Wise’s Brigade, D.H. Hill’s Division, Army of Northern Virginia |
August | Assigned to Wise’s Brigade, Department of North Carolina and Southern Virginia |
December | Assigned to Wise’s Brigade, Elzey’s Command, Department of North Carolina and Southern Virginia |
1863
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April | Assigned to Wise’s Brigade, Department of Richmond |
September | Assigned to Wise’s Brigade, 1st Military District of South Carolina, Department of South Carolina, Georgia and Florida |
October | Assigned to 6th Military District of South Carolina, Department of South Carolina, Georgia and Florida |
December | Assigned to Wise’s Brigade, 6th Military District of South Carolina, Department of South Carolina, Georgia and Florida |
1864
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April | Assigned to the District of Florida, Department of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida |
May 8 | Nottoway Bridge (2 companies) |
May 16 |
Drewry’s Bluff |
May 17-June 14 |
Bermuda Hundred |
June-April | Siege of Petersburg |
June 15 | Jordan’s Farm |
June 17 |
Taylor’s FarmColonel Powhatan R. Page was mortally wounded. |
May | Assigned to Wise’s Brigade, Johnson’s Division, Department of North Carolina and Southern Florida |
August 6 | Blake’s Farm |
August-September |
Charleston Harbor |
October | Assigned to Wise’s Brigade, Johnson’s Division, Department of North Carolina and Southern Virginia |
December 25 |
Legaresville, South CarolinaThe regiment took on the gunboat USS Marblehead in its engagement with Confederate coastal batteries. |
1865
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April 6 |
Sayler’s Creek |
April 9 |
Appomattox Court HouseThe 26th Virginia Infantry Regiment surrendered 16 officers and 81 enlisted men. Private Alanson B. Hicks of Company D was killed in some of the final fighting and is buried in the small Confederate Cemetery at Appomattox. |