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7th Virginia Infantry
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William L HailRank Unknown
My Great Great Grand-Father enlisted in the 7th Virginia Inf
in 1861 But he enlisted under the name of Daniel J Moore
and he was listed as 'In the hand's of the enemy' in 1864
at Milford Va and sent to Point Look-Out Md,were he eleted to go west and never return home to Virginia. My question were may I contain a copy of said enlistment papers out of
Virginia.
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Date Added: 7/7/2010

Company A
Sanford Dallas Embrey - Private
Sanford was a student when he was conscripted in the Confederate Army on March 10, 1862 in Co. A. He was present with his unit until he went AWOL from May 30, 1864 through June 6, 1864. He was present at the October 6, 1864 final roll call. However, he was reported to the Bureau of Conscription on February 25, 1865 as being AWOL in Fauquier County, Virginia. He died March 15, 1924 and was buried in the Cedar Grove Cemetery, in Bealton, Fauquier County, VA.
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Date Added: 2/5/2011

Company B
James J Boleyn - Private
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Date Added: 10/18/2014

Company B
James O Elliott - Private
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Date Added: 8/30/2014

Company B
William E Elliott - Private
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Date Added: 8/30/2014

Company B
Joseph Boston Norman - Private
Born in Culpeper County (now Rappahannock Co.) 16 Feb 1832. Married Mary Elizabeth Scott 22 Dec 1870 in Rappahannock County. He and his brother, James Gideon Norman, mustered in Co. B (The Washington Virginia Grays), 7th Virginia Infantry on 20 Apr 1861, wounded at Fredericksburg, VA 14 Dec 1862, and captured at Saylor's Creek 5 Apr 1865. Joseph died 15 Aug 1877 and is buried in the Gore Family Cemetery, VA Rt. 622, Rappahannock Co., VA.
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Date Added: 3/13/2011

Company C
Thomas F. Brown - Private
Born in Culpeper, Virginia. Enlisted April 25 1861, served until 1863 under Col. C.M. Wager and Capt. T.B. Harris
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Date Added: 5/9/2007

Company C
Coleman Herndon Dempsey - Private
Enlisted in Orange Co., Virginia on March 10, 1862; died of disease at the Orange Co. Va. Courthouse on Christmas Day, 1863. Cousin to Thomas, Daniel, Lemuel, Churchill, Cornelius and Thornton Brown all of VA 7th Inf, Company C.
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Date Added: 2/18/2009

Company C
Levi J Dempsey - Private
Enlisted March 10, 1862 in Orange Co., VA. Wounded at Frayser's Farm in the arm. Wounded on the battlefield of Gettysburg and captured by Union troops on July 3, 1863. Sent to a federal prison in New Jersey, Ft. Delaware, where he died on Oct. 3, 1863 and was buried at Finn's Point National Cemetery, R.F.D. No. 3, Box 542 Fort Mott Road Salem, NJ 08079, Section Cm Site 569. Cousin to William and Coleman Dempsey and Brown Brothers; all of Company C.
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Date Added: 2/18/2009

Company C
Robert Douglas Dempsey - Private
Captured at Harpers Farm, VA on Apr. 6 1865 and held as a Prisoner of War until his release on June 26, 1865. He was 5'10 1/12'; fair complexion, and had light brown hair with blue eyes. He was 19y.o. when he enlisted in 1862. He lived as a Shoemaker before the war. Born in Orange Co., lived in Culpeper.
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Date Added: 3/3/2009

Company C
William A Dempsey - Private
Enlisted in Orange Co., Virginia, Sept. 10, 1864. 5'10', Florid complexion, blue eyes, grey hair. Cousin to Coleman H. Dempsey of 7th VA Inf, Co C. Captured by Union troops at Dinwiddie Court House, VA on April 3,1865. Sent to Pt. Lookout. Released on June 12, 1865 after swearing Oath of Alliegiance.
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Date Added: 2/18/2009

Company C
joseph C. Sorrell - Private
Joesph served in the civil war in 1862 he died in lynchburg,Va at the lynchburg hospital from dyptheria. Joseph has a brother whom also served in the civil war in the 7th reg't Co c. but his were abouts are unknown.both are my 4th great grandfather.
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Date Added: 7/13/2012

Company C
James B Tapp - Private
James enlisted between Sept and Oct. 1862 at Orange Co. Courthouse, Virginia. His mother was Catherine Tapp aka the 'Widow' Tapp of the Battle of the Wilderness. James was wounded in 1863 at Chancellorsville and then detailed in 1864 as courier to General Robert E. Lee. Sadly he did not survive the war. His older brother, William, served in Stuarts Light Horse Artillery.
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Date Added: 4/16/2011

Company C
John A Tinder - Private
Enlisted May 10, 1861 in Orange Co., Va.
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Date Added: 2/18/2009

Company C
alfred wiltshire - Private
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Date Added: 10/10/2010

Company D
Travis Burton - Private
Mustered into service in Pearisburg, Virginia on April 25, 1861, and known as the 'Mountain Boomers'. Travis joined the unit on August 15, 1861. Initially the Giles Company was assigned to the 24th but due to the loss of two companys that left the hostility existed between 'D' Company and another Company in the 24th, they were transferred to the 7th in mid-June 1861.
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Date Added: 6/25/2009

Company D
Andrew Jackson French - Private
Andrew French enlisted in Company D, 7th Regiment Virginia Infantry. He was discharged September 4, 1861 of dyspepsia.
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Date Added: 6/25/2009

Company D
David Alexander French - 1st Lieutenant
David French enlisted in June 1861 as a First Lieutenant in the Artillary Company of Capt. William W. McComas. Capt McComas was killed in April 1862 in the Battle of South Mills, North Carolina. David then commissioned as a Captain and commanded the unit until the end of the war.
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Date Added: 6/25/2009

Company D
James Harvey French - Captain
Organized the 7th Virginia Infantry Company D on April 25, 1861 in Pearisburg, Virginia.
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Date Added: 6/25/2009

Company D
William Augustas French - Private
When he was 15 he enlisted in French's Company D, 7th Virginia Infantry. He was in the first Battle of Manassas and transferred to French's Battery, which he joined near Norfolk. He was in the Battles of Fuzzel's Mill and Ft. Harrison, where he was wounded in the leg. Re-joining after 3 months, he served till the end of the war.
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Date Added: 6/25/2009

Company D
David Emmons Johnston - Private
David enlsited, at age 16, in Company D, 7th Virginia Regiment, born April 10, 1845, was 5' 9 1/2', brown hair, hazel eyes and fair complexion. He was wounded at Williamsburg June 5, 1862. Severely wounded in his side at Gettysburg on July 3, 1863 and a POW there. He was in a hospital at Chester, Pennsylvania and exchanged in November 1863. He was again a POW at Sailor's Creek on April 6, 1865. Oath of Allegiance on June 28, 1865.
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Date Added: 6/25/2009

Company D
David Emmons Johnston - Other
Need to expand their rank list to include Sergeant-Major, which he was.
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Date Added: 6/25/2008

Company D
John Fray Keyser - Private
He enlisted from Luray, Page County, VA on Sep 8, 1971, and was killed June 30, 1862 at Malvern Hills. Buried at Rileyville, Page County, VA.
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Date Added: 1/25/2013

Company D
Isaac Newton Koontz - 4th Sergeant
He enlisted from Luray, Page County, VA on Apr 15, 1862, at the age of 17. He was killed Rude's Hill, VA. on June 27, 1865.
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Date Added: 1/25/2013

Company D
William Witt McComas - Captain
He was an eminent physician, and at the beginning of the Civil War raised in Giles County a company of artillery, which he led into the service, and at the Battle of South Mills, North Carolina, April 19th, 1862, he was killed.
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Date Added: 6/28/2009

Company D
Raleigh Edward Merricks - Private
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Date Added: 11/25/2007

Company D
Hugh J. Wilburn - Private
Enlisted in April 1861, 7th Virginia Company D
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Date Added: 6/25/2009

Company E
Churchill G. Brown - Private
Enlisted April 25, 1861 at Stevensburg, Culpeper Co., Va., Killed at Frayser's Farm, Va, June 30, 1862.
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Date Added: 1/20/2008

Company E
Cornelius Peyton Brown - Private
Enlisted April 25, 1861, Stevensburg, Culpeper Co. Va. 'Discharged for majority' (overage) September 26, 1862.
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Date Added: 1/20/2008

Company E
Daniel T Brown - Private
Enlisted April 25, 1861 at Stevensburg, Culpeper Co., VA. Wounded at the Battle of Gettysburg, PA, July 3, 1863.
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Date Added: 1/20/2008

Company E
Lemuel F Brown - Private
5'6', blond hair, blue eyes. Enlisted April 25, 1861 at Stevensburg, Culpeper Co., VA.
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Date Added: 1/20/2008

Company E
Thornton Stringfellow Brown - Private
by P. Moynahan: Thornton Stringfellow Brown was a young man when he enlisted in April 1861. The state of Virginia seceded on 17 April and Thornton and six of his brothers wasted no time in enlisting in Stevensburg, VA on 25 April. He joined the 7th Virginia Volunteer Infantry, Company E. They were very proud of the name 'Volunteer' ---they were not Bounty men or Conscripts! He received more training and settling in to the military way of life at Camp Wigfall, Manassas. In July, the Company was stationed along Bull Run at Blackburn's Ford where the first action of what was later to be called First Bull Run bythe Federals and First Manassas by the Confederacy. Just to the north of Blackburn's Ford, Generals Johnston, Jackson and Beauregard needed help in repulsing the Federals and so called the 7th Virginia to assist them in repulsing the Federals back to Centerville and Washington. The rest of the year was spent in guard duties while both armies regrouped. Pvt. Brown was with General A. P. Hill on what is known as the Peninsular Campaign, Yorktown, Williamsburg, Seven PInes, Frazier's Farm and Second Manassas. When they marched north to Maryland and wound up at the little town called Sharpsburg, or as the Federals named it, Antietam Creek Company E, 7th Virginia Infantry, was on the right flank of Lee's Army and held up the Federal General Burnside long enough for General A. AP. Hilll to make in from Harper's Ferry in time to push the Federals back. Lee had accomplished his purpose, or at least oneof them, by drawing back the Federal penetration to Richomond, VA (Sept. 1862). The 7th Virginia Infantry spent the winter of 1862-63 in southern Virginia and North Carolina around New Bern, for one place. That summer they marched orth again and wound up in a small town called Gettysburg. Thornton was part of Pickett's Charge. He and one brother were wounded. Thornton was captured, spent time in Fort McHenry, MD, Fort Delawareon Pea Patch Island where the ground was only about one foot below the surfact of the surrouding bay. (Dikes held back the water but you can imagine that in winter with the wind blowing and high tide, it was not a fun palce to be.) Thornton was transferred to Point Lookout prisoner or warcamp in MD. In November and December of 1863 and January 6, 1864, he was in the hospital, Hammong Hospital. Upon his release from the hospital he was returned to the prisoner of war compound where he remained until March 1864 when he ws exchanged. We hope he was able to come home for a while. His home was just about one half mile in the woods. He went back to the army. Private Brown was no Jckson, no Lee, no Johnston---just a common, everyday soldier. He went back, He knew the food was not all that plentiful, In fact, while in the prisoner of war camp, hs daily rations consisted of 8 ounces of bread, one slice of fatback and one pint of bean soup, if there were any beans. The rations in normal camp life were not all that much better. He went back to Petersburg where the 7th was stationed on Howlett Line, guarding the railroad into Richmond, holding back Benjamin Butler from cutting the line. The 7th was down to about 700 men this time. In April 1865, when Lee broke the Federal stranglehold and tried to link up with Johnston or Kirby Smeith, Thornton was again captured at Saylor's Creek, VA. The 7th was down to about 200 men at this time. (Due to wounding, killed, missing in action and desertions.) Thornton was returned to Point Lookout where he spent threee more months as a prisoner of war. In July 1865, he took the oath of allegience and returned to his home in Lignum to his wife and children. Her had been 25 with two children and an exoectant wife when he joined during the war. His third child had been born, a boy who Thornton named after his company commander, John Taylor. The legend has it that not only did his wife keep the homefires burning while Thornton was away but that she did it with the aid of a shotgun. One Federal captain told her that if all the women in the south were as mean as she was, the South would have won the war. Thornton was a good man, a good husband, a good father, a good Virginian and a good American.

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Date Added: 1/20/2008

Company E
William C Brown - Private
Enlisted April 25, 1861 in Stevensburg, VA along with six of his brothers in this company.
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Date Added: 5/7/2009

Company E
A J GarnerRank Unknown
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Date Added: 2/16/2009

Company E
George H. Hitt - Private
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Date Added: 12/8/2005

Company E
Alexander Legg - Private
Enlisted at Occoquan, Va on July 10, 1861 and died at the battle of Gettysburg on July 3, 1863. Brother to Sgt. John F. Legg of same Company.
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Date Added: 3/27/2009

Company E
John T Legg - Sergeant
Enlisted at the Culpeper Court House, Culpeper, VA on July 1, 1861 and was promoted to Full Sergeant in 1862. He was wounded at First Manasas, Fredericksburg and Drewry's Bluff near Richmond. He was captured at Gettysburg, July 3rd, 1863, held at Fort Delaware and Point Lookout for eight months. He had dark hair and complexion with grey eyes. Newspaper reported him KIA. RICHMOND DISPATCH 18 MAY 1864: List of killed and wounded in the 7th Virginia infantry, Kemper's brigade, in the fight of Mondaymorning, 16th May, near Drewry's Bluff.

Killed: Sergt W B Carpenter, co A; John Jenkins, co K. Wounded: W R Clatterback — Cooper, and E S Partlow, co B; V B Collius and F. Hume, co C; G T Stewart and J T Legg, co E; J R. Rayner, W H Brown, J S Marshall, and W M Cox, co F; J W Jenkins, co G; Lt Brown, W H Dickinson, Wm Jackson, and R N Huffman, co K.
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Date Added: 3/28/2009

Company E
Joseph Thomas Norman - Private
Wounded Jan 1, 1862 at the Battle of Seven Pines. Thomas was captured in the battle around Richmond, Virginia and held at Libby Prison until the end of the war. he was paroled April 15,1865.
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Date Added: 11/17/2012

Company E
James Souter - Private
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Date Added: 1/4/2011

Company F
Job O. Breeden - Private
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Date Added: 7/8/2009

Company F
Judson Creel Jarrell - Private
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Date Added: 7/14/2015

Company F
Robert A. Rickard - Private
Senlisted 4/22/62 @ Gordonsville, Wounded 6/27/62 unable to return to regiment.
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Date Added: 5/29/2016

Company G
Paul H Hitt - Private
Paul H Hitt joined the Confederate Army on 3 Aug 1862 at the Culpepper Courthouse in Virginia. The Conferderate soldier was wounded on 12 July 1863 at Gettysburgh PA. He was captured and was transfered as a POW to Chester county where he died of Gangrene on 27 July 1863 and was buried the same day at Philadelphia National Cemetary, Haines Street & Limekiln Pike Philadelphia , PA 19138,Section Cm Site 76. He was Private in the 7th Regiment of the Virginia Infantry, Company G.
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Date Added: 2/18/2013

Company G
John Quaintance - 2nd Sergeant
Enlisted 5/1/1861. Died 2/26/1862 of Typhoid Fever.
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Date Added: 1/24/2008

Company G
RICHARD H. REVERCOMBRank Unknown
THIS IS MY GREAT GREAT GRANDFATHER
FATHER OF MARY ELIZABETH REVERCOMB
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Date Added: 1/23/2007

Company H
Gaston Blondeau - Private
Enlisted in Co H of the 7th VA Infantry Regiment on March 1, 1861. Fought in the First Battle of Bull Run. Was discharged from the 7th VA Inf after being wounded in both feet at Mason's Hill, VA, in September of 1861. After recovering from his wounds, and unable to march for extended periods because of those foot injuries, he joined the 6th VA Cavalry Regiment. After joining the 6th VA Cav, he was wounded and again discharged in October of 1862. He later rejoined the 6th VA Cav in the Spring of 1863 and served in JEB Stuart's cavalry until wounded once again and taken prisoner at Williamsport, MD, on July 14, 1863, while the 6th VA Cav was covering General Lee's retreat from Gettysburg. POW until parolled on October 14, 1864, and then exchanged in Savannah on Oct 29, 1864. After exchange joined and fought with Confederate 'guerilla' cavalry units in South Carolina and Georgia until the end of the war.
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Date Added: 3/17/2014

Company H
Joseph Benedict Edelen - Private
Joseph B. Edelen was from PG Co, Maryland and a 1st Lieutenant in the Piscattaway Rifles, prewar Maryland militia. Upon Lincoln declaring Martial Law and arresting the Md legislature and putting his pro northern lackies in their place and appointing a Military govt, he disbanded the Maryland Militia. At this Lt. Joseph B. Edelen's company crossed the Potomac and joined the CS Army and was assigned as Co. H, 7th Virginia Inf. He was shot in the face at 1st Bull Run, spit the bullet out and finished the battle. He later made a watch fob of the bullet and carried it the rest of his life.
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Date Added: 12/23/2013

Company I
Enoch Durham - Private
Seventh Confederate Cavalry (Claiborne's Regiment. Partisan Rangers; 7th Regiment, Confederate Partisan Rangers)
Enoch was My GG Uncle
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Date Added: 8/12/2007

Company I
John A. Sneed - Private
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Date Added: 4/22/2010

Company K
James Medford Rosser - 2nd Lieutenant
1st Cousin (Paternal).
Enlisted as a Private in Captain William Lovell's Company (Madison Greys), 7th Regiment Virginia Volunteers on 23 April 1861.
Transferred as a Private in Company K, 7th Regiment Virginia Infantry on March/April 1862.
Promoted to 2nd Lieutenant on 26 April 1862.
Wounded at Williamsburg Virginia 5 May 1862.
Wounded at Manassas Virginia 30 August 1862.
Wounded at Gettysburg Pennsylvania 3 July 1863.
Wounded at Drewry's Bluff Virginia 16 May 1864.
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Source: Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers from Virginia Units.
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Date Added: 9/7/2013

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