Confederate Regiments & Batteries > Virginia
“White’s Cavalry Battalion” “White’s Comanches”
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1862
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| Fall | Unofficially organized as White’s Cavalry Battalion under the command of Major Elijah V. White. The battalion consisted of six companies. |
| November | Assigned to Jones’s Brigade, Cavalry Division, Army of Northern Virginia. |
| November 10 | Philomont |
| November 25 | Poolesville (Company B) |
| November 29 | Berryville |
| December | Assigned to Jones’s Cavalry Brigade, Army of the Valley District. |
| December 24 | Poolesville |
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1863
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| February 4 | Officially organized as the 35th Virginia Cavalry Battalion. |
| May-September | Assigned to Jones’s Brigade, Cavalry Division, Army of Northern Virginia |
| June 9 |
Battle of Brandy StationLieutenant Colonel Elijah V. White was wounded. |
| June | Temporarily attached to Ewell’s Second Corps for the invasion of Pennsylvania. |
| June 23 | Entered Pennsylvania and accompanied Major General Jubal Early’s Division. |
| June 26 |
Skirmish at GettysburgThe battalion clashed with militia cavalry scouts, killing Private George Sandoe, said to be the first Federal casualty at Gettysburg. |
| June 28 | Reached the Susquehanna at Wrightsville |
| August 27 | Edwards’s Ferry |
| September 1 | Barbee’s Crossroads |
| September | Assigned to Jones’s-Rosser’s Brigade, Hampton’s-Butler’s Division, Cavalry Corps Army of Northern Virginia |
| October 1 | Lewinsville |
| October |
Bristoe Campaign |
| November-December |
Mine Run Campaign |
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1864
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| May 5-6 |
Battle of the Wilderness |
| May 8-21 |
Battle of Spotsylvania Court House |
| May 22-26 |
Battle of North Anna |
| May 28 |
Battle of Haw’s Shop |
| June 1-3 |
Battle of Cold Harbor |
| June |
Siege of Petersburg |
| September 14-17 |
Beefsteak Raid |
| September-March | Assigned to Rosser’s Brigade, Fitzhugh Lee’s-Rosser’s Cavalry Division, Army of the Valley District |
| October 9 |
Tom’s Brook |
| October 19 | Battle of Cedar Creek |
| November 28 | New Creek |
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1865
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| March-April | Assigned to Dearing’s Brigade, Rosser’s Division, Cavalry Corps, Army of Northern Virginia |
| April 9 |
Appomattox Court HouseThe battalion escaped the surrender and returned to Loudon County to disband. |