Confederate Regiments
Infantry
- 2nd Virginia Infantry
- 7th Virginia Infantry
- 13th Virginia Infantry
- 22nd Virginia Infantry
- 23rd Virginia Infantry Battalion
- 24th Virginia Infantry
- 25th Virginia Infantry
- 26th Virginia Infantry Battalion
- 27th Virginia Infantry
- 29th Virginia Infantry
- 30th Virginia Infantry Battalion (Sharpshooters)
- 31st Virginia Infantry
- 33rd Virginia Infantry
- 36th Virginia Infantry
- 45th Virginia Infantry Battalion
- 59th Virginia Infantry
- 60th Virginia Infantry
- 62nd Virginia Mounted Infantry
Cavalry
- 1st Virginia Cavalry
- 2nd Battalion Kentucky Mounted Rifles
- 7th Virginia Cavalry
- 8th Virginia Cavalry
- 10th Virginia Cavalry
- 11th Virginia Cavalry
- 12th Virginia Cavalry
- 14th Kentucky Cavalry
- 14th Virginia Cavalry
- 16th Virginia Cavalry
- 17th Virginia Cavalry
- 18th Virginia Cavalry
- 19th Virginia Cavalry
- 20th Virginia Cavalry
- 21st Virginia Cavalry
- 23rd Virginia Cavalry
- 26th Virginia Cavalry
- 34th Battalion, Virginia Cavalry
- 36th Battalion, Virginia Cavalry
- 37th Battalion, Virginia Cavalry
- 43rd Battalion, Virginia Cavalry (Mosby’s Partisan Rangers)
- 44th Battalion, Virginia Cavalry (Thurmond’s Partisan Rangers)
- McNeil’s Company, Virginia Cavalry (McNeil’s Partisan Rangers)
- Swann’s Battalion, Virginia Cavalry
Artillery
- Bryan’s Battery
- Chapman’s Battery
- Chew’s Battery
- French’s Battery
- Gauley Artillery
- Jackson’s Horse Artillery
- Kanawha Artillery
- Lowry’s Battery
- Lurty’s Battery
- McClanahan’s Battery
- Penick’s Battery
- Taylor’s Battery
- Western Artillery
- Wise Artillery
36th Virginia Infantry
36th Virginia Infantry, formerly known as the 2nd Kanawha Regiment, was organized in July, 1861. Assigned to Floyd’s Brigade, the unit fought at Kessler’s Cross Lanes and Carnifex Ferry in western Virginia, then moved to Tennessee. Here it was captured in the fight at Fort Donelson in February, 1862. After being exchanged it returned to Virginia and served in McCausland’s and T. Smith’s Brigade. The 36th went on to fight at Cloyd’s Mountain and Piedmont, and later was involved in Early’s Shenandoah Valley operations. It fought its last battle at Waynesborough.
This unit reported 14 killed and 46 wounded at Fort Donelson, and there were 18 killed, 58 wounded, and 35 missing at Cloyd’s Mountain. Many were lost at Third Winchester, and in mid-April, 1865, it disbanded.
The field officers were Colonels John A. McCausland and Thomas Smith, and Lieutenant Colonels William E. Fife, Benjamin R. Linkons, and L. Wilber Reid.
[Source: National Park Service, Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System]
West Virginia counties contributing soldiers: Boone, Clay, Jackson, Logan, Nicholas, Putnam, Raleigh, Roane, Wayne, Wood
36th Virginia Infantry – National Park Service
36th Virginia Infantry – The Civil War in the East
36th Virginia Infantry, Virginia Regimental History Series, by J.L. Scott, H.E. Howard Publishing, 1987.
36th Virginia Infantry, Compendium of the Confederate Armies: Virginia, by Stewart Sifakis, pp. 223-224, entry #367.
36th Virginia Infantry, A Guide to Virginia’s Military Organizations, 1861-1865, by Lee A. Wallace, Jr., pp. 118-119.