Virginia: 50th Infantry Regiment
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Unit History
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Organized with 10 companies and 3 cavalry companies for one year on July 3, 1861.
Cavalry Compnay B mustered out on September 26, 1861.
Cavalry Companies A and C became Companies A and B, 8th Virginia Cavalry Regiment, respectively, in October 1861.
Company L organized on October 7, 1861, and transferred to the 23rd Infantry Battalion on January 15, 1862.
Regiment organized with nine companies on May 25, 1862.
The 2nd Company G organized on August 26, 1862.
Field consolidation with the 21st, 25th, 42nd, 44th, and 50th Infantry Regiments from May 14, 1864, prior to July 9, 1864.
Dispersed at
Waynesborough on March 2, 1865.
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Field and Staff
- Commander: Alexander W. Reynolds (Colonel)
- Colonel: Thomas Poage and Alexander S. Vandeventer (Lt. Col., Col.)
- Lieutenant Colonel: William W. Finney and Logan H.N. Sayler
- Major: Lunville J. Perkins and Charles E. Thorburn
Assignments
- August-December 1861: Army of the Kanawha
- January-February 1862: Floyd's Division, Central Army of Kentucky, Department #2
- February 1862: McCausland's Brigade, Floyd's Division, Central Army of Kentucky, Department #2
- February-May 1862: McCausland's Brigade, Army of the Kanawha
- May-September 1862: McCausland's Brigade, Department of Southwestern Virginia
- December 1862: Unattachyed, Elzey's Command, Department of North Carolina and Southern Virginia
- December 1862: Colston's Brigade, Elzey's Command, Department of North Carolina and Southern Virginia
- December 1862-February 1863: Colston's-Pryor's Brigade, French's Command, Department of North Carolina and Southern Virginia
- April-June 1863: Wharton's Brigade, Department of Western Virginia
- June 1863-May 1864: J.M. Jones' Brigade, Johnson's Division, 2nd Corps, Army of Northern Virginia
- May-June 1864: Terry's Consolidated Brigade, Gordon's Division, 2nd Corps, Army of Northern Virginia
- June 1864: Terry's Consolidated Brigade, Gordon's Division, Valley District, Department of Northern Virginia
- July 1864-March 1865: Terry's Consolidated Brigade, Gordon's Division, 2nd Corps, Army of Northern Virginia
Companies & Counties of Origin
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