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
McNeil's Company, Virginia Cavalry (McNeil's Partisan Rangers)
McNeill’s Rangers, a Confederate guerrilla force consisting of Company E of the 18th Virginia Cavalry and the First Virginia Partisan Rangers, began operations in September 1862 under the leadership of Capt. John H. ‘‘Hanse’’ McNeill. Operating out of the Moorefield area, the Rangers attacked Union troops, camps, and property of the vital Baltimore & Ohio Railroad.
While most of their operations were independent, the Rangers would on occasion join up with other partisan groups or Confederate regulars in operations against Union forces. In May 1863, they took part in the wide-ranging Jones-Imboden Raid through much of north central West Virginia.
Captain McNeill was mortally wounded on October 3, 1864, at a raid on Union forces at Mount Jackson, Virginia. His son, Jesse, took command of the Rangers and led them until the end of the war. On February 21, 1865, they were successful in kidnapping Union generals George Crook and Benjamin Kelley from their hotels in Cumberland, Maryland, and delivered them to Gen. Jubal Early at Staunton, Virginia.
At the end of the war, Jesse McNeill and 30 men surrendered to Union troops on April 24, 1865, at New Creek (now Keyser), thus ending the exploits of the partisan band. Probably never numbering more than 100 men at any time, they managed to do damage to Union operations and tie down troops to a degree far out of proportion to their number.
[Source: West Virginia Encyclopedia]
West Virginia counties contributing soldiers: Hampshire, Hardy, Pendleton
McNeill’s Partisan Rangers – National Park Service
Phantoms of the South Fork: Captain McNeill and His Rangers, by Steve French, Kent State University Press, 2017.
McNeill’s Rangers, Virginia Regimental History Series, by Roger U. Delauter, H. E. Howard Publishing, 1986.
McNeill’s Rangers, Compendium of the Confederate Armies: Virginia, by Stewart Sifakis, pg. 149, entry #260.
McNeill’s Rangers, A Guide to Virginia’s Military Organizations, 1861-1865, by Lee A. Wallace, Jr., pg. 79.