Confederate Regiments & Batteries > Virginia
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1861
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| September | Organized under the command of Colonel Lewis Armistead and Lieutenant Colonel George W. Carr. The regiment was created on the nucleus of Keene’s Infantry Battalion, to which five new companies were added. |
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1862
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| April 1 | Colonel Armistead was promoted to brigadier general. The 9th, 14th, 38th, 53rd and 57th Virginia were brigaded together under Brigadier General Lewis Armistead in Richard Anderson’s Division of Longstreet’s Command, |
| April 24 | Lieutenant Colonel Carr was promoted to colonel. and Captain Garland B. Hanes of Company A was promoted to major. |
| May | Colonel Carr and Major Hanes were dropped in the army reorganization. Captain Elisha Ford Keen was elected colonel and Captain David Dyer was elected major. |
| June | Major Dyer was elected to lieutenant colonel. |
| July 1 |
Malvern HillThe regiment lost 113 casualties. |
| July 30 | Colonel Keen resigned. Lieutenant Colonel Dyer was promoted to colonel and Captain John Bowie Magruder of Company H to lieutenant colonel. |
| August 30 |
Second Battle of Manassas (Bull Run) |
| September 13 |
Capture of Harpers Ferry |
| September 17 |
Battle of Sharpsburg (Antietam)The regiment was commanded by Captain William Ramsey, while Colonel Dyer was absent from the regiment. |
| September 19 |
Battle of ShepherdstownThe regiment covered the river bank at Pack Horse Ford. Colonel Hodges, commanding the brigade since Armistead was wounded at Sharpsburg, reported that the brigade consisted of no more than 50 to 60 men. |
| November 7 | The regiment was transferred with the rest of Armistead’s Brigade to Pickett’s Division of Longstreet’s newly-designated First Army Corps. |
| December 13 |
Battle of FredericksburgCommanded by Colonel David Dyer |
| December | Winter quarters at Guiney Station |
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1863
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| January 12 | Colonel Dyer resigned. Lieutenant John B, Magruder was promoted to colonel. |
| February 4 | Captain Clement R. Fontaine of Company A was promoted to major. |
| February-April | Detached from the Army of Northern Virginia on Longstreet’s Suffolk Expedition |
| April 29 | Left Suffolk for the Rappahannock |
| June 25 | Crossed the Potomac at Williamsport, Maryland |
| July 2-3 |
Battle of GettysburgThe regiment was commanded by Colonel John B. Magruder and brought 476 men to the field. It “woke at 3 a.m. on July 3 and moved to Seminary Ridge. That afternoon it took part in Pickett’s Charge as the support brigade on the right flank of the attack, breaking the Union line at The Angle before being thrown back with heavy casualties. Colonel John B. Magruder and Lt. Colonel Benjamin H. Wade were both mortally wounded, with Colonel Magruder also captured. Major Clement R. Fontaine took over the regiment.” Officer casualties were heavy. Captain John Smith and Lieutenants P. Fletcher Ford, Isaac Prillaman, Andrew Styne, and James Styne were killed. Captains David P. Heckman, William Ramsey, and John Taylor and Lieutenants Abram Holland, Christian Prillaman, and William Thomson were wounded. Lieutenant Marquis Boone was wounded and captured. Captains Daniel Arrington and David Dickinson and Lieutenants Leroy Dyer, Benjamin Philpott, and Edward Robinson were captured. From the monument to Armistead’s Brigade on the Gettysburg battlefield: July 2. Arrived about sunset and bivouacked on the western border of Spangler’s Woods. July 3. In the forenoon formed line behind Kemper and Garnett east of the woods. When the cannonade ceased advanced to support Kemper’s and Garnett’s Brigades forming the right of Longstreet’s Corps. Its losses being less at first than those of the other brigades it passed the Emmitsburg Road in compact ranks and as the front line was going to pieces near the stone wall pushed forward and many of its men and some from other commands responding to the call and following Gen. L. A. Armistead sprang over the wall into the Angle and continued the desperate struggle until he fell mortally wounded beyond the stone wall. July 4. Spent the day in reorganization and during the night began the march to Hagerstown. |
| July 5 | Major Clement R. Fontaine was promoted to colonel and Captain David Heckman of Company C was promoted to major. |
| Brigadier General George Steuart took command of the brigade | |
| July | Escorted prisoners back to Virginia |
| September | Detached from the Army of Northern Virginia and assigned to the Department of Richmond |
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1864
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| May 16 |
Drewry’s BluffThe regiment lost 7 men killed, 31 wounded, and 3 missing |
| May 21-23 | Rejoined the Army of Northern Virginia, assigned to Kemper’s-Terry’s Brigade, Pickett’s Division, 1st Corps. |
| May 23-26 |
North Anna |
| June 1-3 |
Battle of Cold Harbor |
| June |
Petersburg Siege begins |
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1865
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| April 1865 | Commanded by Lieutenant Colonel William H. Ramsey |
| April 1 |
Battle of Five ForksMajor Heckman was captured at Dinwiddie Court House. |
| April 6 |
Battle of Sayler’s Creek |
| April 9 |
Appomattox Court HouseThe regiment surrendered 7 officers and 74 enlisted men. |