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
Chew’s Battery
Chew’s Battery, also known as Ashby Horse Artillery, and John W. Carter’s Horse Artillery. Organized at Flowing Spring, Jefferson County, on November 13, 1861. Reorganized on May 19, 1862. Temporarily disbanded on January 16, 1865, with orders to reassemble on April 1, 1865, at Lynchburg. Armed with one 3-inch Rifle, one 12-lb. Howitzer, and one 3.1-inch Blakely Rife from March 23, 1862, to April 9, 1865. Surrendered at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, on April 9, 1865.
First Commander was Captain Robert Preston Chew, followed by Captains James Walton Thomson and John Wright Carter.
[Source: Compendium of the Confederate Armies: Virginia, by Stewart Sifakis]
West Virginia counties contributing soldiers: Jefferson, Berkeley
Ashby’s Horse Artillery – The Civil War in the East
Chew’s Ashby, Shoemaker’s Lynchburg & The Newton Artillery; Virginia Regimental History Series, by Robert H. Moore, II, H.E. Howard Publishing, 1995.
Virginia Ashby Horse Artillery Battery, Compendium of the Confederate Armies: Virginia, by Stewart Sifakis, pp. 19-20, entry #37.
Capt. John W. Carter’s Co. Va. Horse Artillery, A Guide to Virginia’s Military Organizations, 1861-1865, by Lee A. Wallace, Jr., pg. 15.
Three Years In The Confederate Horse Artillery: A Gunner In Chew’s Battery, Stuart’s Horse Artillery, Army Of Northern Virginia; by George M. Neese, Createspace, 2012.
A History of the Laurel Brigade: Originally the Ashby Cavalry of the Army of Northern Virginia and Chew’s Battery; by William N. McDonald (Author), Bushrod C. Washington (Editor), Eric J. Mink (Introduction); Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.