45th Virginia Infantry Battalion was organized by detachments between April and December, 1863. Its six companies were composed of men from the 1st Regiment Cavalry Virginia State Line which had disbanded. The unit served in the Department of Western Virginia, lost 4 killed and 11 wounded at Cloyd’s Mountain, then was involved in various conflicts in the Shenandoah Valley. It disbanded during April, 1865. Lieutenant Colonel Henry M. Beckley and Major Blake L. Woodson were in command.

[Source: National Park Service, Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System]

West Virginia counties contributing soldiers: Boone, Cabell, Logan, McDowell, Wayne, Wyoming

45th Virginia Infantry Battalion – National Park Service

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45th Virginia Infantry Battalion, Compendium of the Confederate Armies: Virginia, by Stewart Sifakis, pp. 233-234, entry #377.

45th Virginia Infantry Battalion, A Guide to Virginia’s Military Organizations, 1861-1865, by Lee A. Wallace, Jr., pp. 125-126.

The Other Feud: William Anderson “Devil Anse” Hatfield in the Civil War, by Philip Hatfield Ph.D., Createspace, 2010.