Virginia: 8th Infantry Regiment
(aka Old Bloody Eighth)
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Unit History
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Organized in state service on May 8, 1861.
Transferred to Confederate service in July 1861.
Reorganized on April 27, 1862.
Surrendered at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865.
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Field and Staff
- Commander: Eppa Hunton (Colonel)
- Colonel: Norborne Berkeley (Major, Lt. Col. Col.)
- Lieutenant Colonel: Edmund Berkeley (Major, Lt. Col.)
- Major: William N. Berkeley and James Thrift
Assignments
- June-July 1861: 5th (Cocke's) Brigade, Army of the Potomac
- July 1861: 5th (Cocke's) Brigade, 1st Corps, Army of the Potomac
- July 1861: Unattached, 1st Corps, Army of the Potomac
- October 1861: 7th (Evan's) Brigade, 1st Corps, Army of the Potomac
- January 1862: 5th (Cocke's) Brigade, Longstreet's Division, 1st Corps, Potomac District, Department of Northern Virginia
- January-March 1862: 5th (Cocke's) Brigade, Longstreet's Division, Potomac District, Department of Northern Virginia
- March-June 1862: Pickett's Brigade, Longstreet's Division, Army of Northern Virginia
- June-August 1862: Pickett's Brigade, Longstreet's Division, 1st Corps, Army of Northern Virginia
- August-September 1862: Pickett's Brigade, Kemper's Division, 1st Corps, Army of Northern Virginia
- September 1862: Pickett's Brigade, D.R. Jones' Division, 1st Corps, Army of Northern Virginia
- September 1862-February 1863: Pickett's-Garnett's Brigade, Pickett's Division, 1st Corps, Army of Northern Virginia
- February-April 1863: Garnett's Brigade, Pickett's Division, Department of Virginia and North Carolina
- April-May 1863: Garnett's Brigade, Pickett's Division, Department of Southern Virginia
- May-September 1863: Garnett's-Hunton's Brigade, Pickett's Division, 1st Corps, Army of Northern Virginia
- September 1863-May 1864: Hutton's Brigade, Department of Richmond
- May 1864-April 1865: Hutton's Brigade, Pickett's Division, 1st Corps, Army of Northern Virginia
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