Virginia 25th Infantry Regiment


HISTORICAL NOTES:

The Virginia 25th Infantry Regiment was organized during the early summer of 1861. Its members were raised in Upshur, Augusta, Highland, Bath, Pendleton, and Rockbridge counties.

The unit participated in Lee's Cheat Mountain Campaign and Jackson's Valley Campaign. In the spring of 1862 the 9th Battalion, Virginia Infantry, four companies under the command of Lt. Colonel George W. Hansbrough that had served in the Army of the Northwest and fought at Greenbrier River and Camp Allegheny were merged into the 25th Virginia. After the July 11, 1861 battle of Rich Mountain, the regiment was severely depleted due to Col. Pegram's surrender of Camp Garnett. Members of 1st Co. A (Upshur Grays) and 1st Co. B (Rockbridge Guards) were dispatched to Hart's Farm under command of Capt. Julius A. DeLagnel to ward off an expected Federal assault. Men of the 20th VA and 25th VA, along with a lone cannon took position in the stable yard of the Hart farm and awaited the Federal assault. As the Federals appeared on the hillside, the long-awaited battle that the boys of Virginia had anticipated commenced. The small (310 men) force of Confederates held back the initial attacks, but overwhelming numbers, along with a final charge of the 19th Ohio forced the surviving members of the Confederate outpost to flee. The following morning, being cut off and surrounded, Col. Pegram surrendered the balance of his command at Camp Garnett, including the majority of the 25th VA. The 25th lost 5 killed, 11 wounded, and 2 captured at Hart's farm. Included in the dead were Upshur Gray privates Henry Clay Jackson and Oscar Sherwood, whose names can be seen engraved in the rock that they defended to this day.

After Jackson's campaign finished, the regiment was assigned to General Early's, J.R. Jones', and W.Terry's Brigade, Army of Northern Virginia. It took an active part in the campaigns of the army from the Seven Days' Battles to Cold Harbor, then fought with Early in the Shenandoah Valley and in various conflicts around Appomattox.

This regiment reported 18 casualties at Camp Alleghany, 72 at McDowell, and 29 at Cross Keys and Port Republic. It lost 1 killed and 24 wounded at Cedar Mountain, had 3 killed and 20 wounded at Sharpsburg, and reported 1 killed and 13 wounded at Fredericksburg. Of the 280 engaged at Gettysburg, twenty-five percent were disabled. There were 15 members (1 officer, 14 enlisted) of the 25th at Appomattox on April 9, 1865.



FIELD OFFICERS:

Colonels John C. Higginbotham, George A. Porterfield, and George H. Smith; Lieutenant Colonels Patrick B. Duffy, Jonathon M. Heck, Robert D. Lilley, and John A. Robinson; and Majors Wilson Harper, Albert G. Reger, and William T. Thompson.

ASSIGNMENTS:



BATTLES:

Battle of Rich Mountain

Battle of Cheat Mountain

Jackson's Valley Campaign

Seven Days' Battles

Second Battle of Manassas

Battle of Antietam

Battle of Fredericksburg

Siege of Suffolk

Battle of Gettysburg

Battle of Cold Harbor

Valley Campaigns of 1864

Appomattox Campaign

ROSTERS:

The rosters of this unit contains the names of 945 men.



Company A (Upshur Grays) - Upshur County

Company B (Rockbridge Guards) - Rockbridge County

Company C (Augusta Lee Rifles) - Augusta County

Company D (Highland Rangers) - Highland County

Company E (Pendleton Rifles) - Pendleton County

Company E (2nd) (Fighting Company E)

Company F (Franklin Guards) - Pendleton County

Company G ( Bath Grays) - Bath County

Company H (Hardy Blues) - Hardy County

Company I (Mount Crawford Cavalry) (formerly Valley Rifles) - Rockingham County

Company K (South Branch Riflemen) Hardy County and Pendleton County

When the regiment was reorganized in 1862 to bring it back to full strength the following companies were added from the 9th Battalion Virginia Infantry.

Company A, Letcher Guards, Capt. John A. Robinson

Company C, Braxton Blues, Capt. Patrick B. Duffy

Company E, Fighting Company E (composed from several parts of depleted companies)

Company G, Mollohan's Company, Capt. William H. Mollohan

Company I, Pocahontas Rescuers, Capt. Daniel A. Stofer

Company K, Pendleton Minute Men, Capt. D.C. Anderson (company transferred from the 31st Virginia Infantry to the 25th)

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