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Note: Formerly known as the 5th Regiment Virginia Reserves and Preston’s Regiment (Battalion).
Muster In: Organized with seven companies as Preston’s Infantry Battalion Reserves on August 27, 1864. Increased to a regiment on November 24, 1864.1,2
Muster Out: Disbanded on April 12, 1865.3
Commander(s):
Colonel Robert Taylor Preston
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First Offensive Order of Battle: Danville, Va. | First Military District | Department of North Carolina and Southern Virginia | Confederate Army4
- Commander: Colonel Robert Taylor Preston (?)5
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Second Offensive Order of Battle: Danville, Va. | First Military District | Department of North Carolina and Southern Virginia | Confederate Army6
- Commander: Colonel Robert Taylor Preston (?)7
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Third Offensive Order of Battle: Danville, Va. | First Military District | Department of North Carolina and Southern Virginia | Confederate Army8
- Commander: Colonel Robert Taylor Preston (?)9
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Fourth Offensive Order of Battle: Danville, Va. | First Military District | Department of North Carolina and Southern Virginia | Confederate Army10
- Commander: Colonel Robert Taylor Preston (?)11
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Fifth Offensive Order of Battle: Danville, Va. | First Military District | Department of North Carolina and Southern Virginia | Confederate Army12
- Commander: Colonel Robert Taylor Preston (?)13
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Sixth Offensive Order of Battle: Danville, Va. | First Military District | Department of North Carolina and Southern Virginia | Confederate Army14
- Commander: Colonel Robert Taylor Preston (?)15
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Seventh Offensive Order of Battle: Danville, Va. | First Military District | Department of North Carolina and Southern Virginia | Confederate Army16,17
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Eighth Offensive Order of Battle: Danville, Va. | First Military District | Department of North Carolina and Southern Virginia | Confederate Army21,22
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Ninth Offensive Order of Battle: Danville, Va. | First Military District | Department of North Carolina and Southern Virginia | Confederate Army26,27
- Commander: Colonel Robert Taylor Preston (?)28
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Dyer’s/Sifakis’ Compendium Info:
Siege of Petersburg Battles29:
- None listed.
Bibliography:
Siege of Petersburg Documents Which Mention This Unit:
Sources:
- Compendium of the Confederate Armies: Virginia by Stewart Sifakis, p. 169, 262 ↩
- Wallace, Lee A., Jr. A Guide to Virginia Military Organizations 1861-1865, 2nd Ed. (Lynchburg, Va.: H. E. Howard, 1986), p. 222 ↩
- Compendium of the Confederate Armies: Virginia by Stewart Sifakis, p. 169, 262 ↩
- The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., p. 116 ↩
- Wallace, Lee A., Jr. A Guide to Virginia Military Organizations 1861-1865, 2nd Ed. (Lynchburg, Va.: H. E. Howard, 1986), p. 222: Preston is listed as the unit’s only commander, from “1864-65”. I am unsure if he was consistently present from the beginning to the end of the unit’s existence, or if he was away at times. More research is needed. ↩
- The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., p. 116 ↩
- Wallace, Lee A., Jr. A Guide to Virginia Military Organizations 1861-1865, 2nd Ed. (Lynchburg, Va.: H. E. Howard, 1986), p. 222: Preston is listed as the unit’s only commander, from “1864-65”. I am unsure if he was consistently present from the beginning to the end of the unit’s existence, or if he was away at times. More research is needed. ↩
- The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 125 ↩
- Wallace, Lee A., Jr. A Guide to Virginia Military Organizations 1861-1865, 2nd Ed. (Lynchburg, Va.: H. E. Howard, 1986), p. 222: Preston is listed as the unit’s only commander, from “1864-65”. I am unsure if he was consistently present from the beginning to the end of the unit’s existence, or if he was away at times. More research is needed. ↩
- The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 135 ↩
- Wallace, Lee A., Jr. A Guide to Virginia Military Organizations 1861-1865, 2nd Ed. (Lynchburg, Va.: H. E. Howard, 1986), p. 222: Preston is listed as the unit’s only commander, from “1864-65”. I am unsure if he was consistently present from the beginning to the end of the unit’s existence, or if he was away at times. More research is needed. ↩
- The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 143 ↩
- Wallace, Lee A., Jr. A Guide to Virginia Military Organizations 1861-1865, 2nd Ed. (Lynchburg, Va.: H. E. Howard, 1986), p. 222: Preston is listed as the unit’s only commander, from “1864-65”. I am unsure if he was consistently present from the beginning to the end of the unit’s existence, or if he was away at times. More research is needed. ↩
- The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 151 ↩
- Wallace, Lee A., Jr. A Guide to Virginia Military Organizations 1861-1865, 2nd Ed. (Lynchburg, Va.: H. E. Howard, 1986), p. 222: Preston is listed as the unit’s only commander, from “1864-65”. I am unsure if he was consistently present from the beginning to the end of the unit’s existence, or if he was away at times. More research is needed. ↩
- The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 160 ↩
- The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 169 ↩
- Wallace, Lee A., Jr. A Guide to Virginia Military Organizations 1861-1865, 2nd Ed. (Lynchburg, Va.: H. E. Howard, 1986), p. 222: Preston is listed as the unit’s only commander, from “1864-65”. I am unsure if he was consistently present from the beginning to the end of the unit’s existence, or if he was away at times. More research is needed. ↩
- The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 160 ↩
- The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 169 ↩
- The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 178 ↩
- The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 189 ↩
- The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 178 ↩
- The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 189 ↩
- Wallace, Lee A., Jr. A Guide to Virginia Military Organizations 1861-1865, 2nd Ed. (Lynchburg, Va.: H. E. Howard, 1986), p. 222: Preston is listed as the unit’s only commander, from “1864-65”. I am unsure if he was consistently present from the beginning to the end of the unit’s existence, or if he was away at times. More research is needed. ↩
- The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 198 ↩
- The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 207 ↩
- Wallace, Lee A., Jr. A Guide to Virginia Military Organizations 1861-1865, 2nd Ed. (Lynchburg, Va.: H. E. Howard, 1986), p. 222: Preston is listed as the unit’s only commander, from “1864-65”. I am unsure if he was consistently present from the beginning to the end of the unit’s existence, or if he was away at times. More research is needed. ↩
- Compendium of the Confederate Armies: Virginia by Stewart Sifakis, p. 169, 262 ↩