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1st Virginia Regiment

Stirling’s Division | Muhlenberg’s Brigade | 1st Virginia Regiment

History

Organized October 1775 at Williamsburg.

Entered Valley Forge with 237 men assigned and 94 fit for duty.

Left Valley Forge with the 5th Virginia Regiment and the 9th Virginia Regiment, 507 men assigned 281 fit for duty.

Previous engagements: Chesapeake Bay, Northern New Jersey, Trenton-Princeton, Defense of Philadelphia, Philadelphia-Monmouth.

Field Officers

  • Colonel Richard Parker
  • Colonel James Hendricks
  • Lt. Colonel Robert Ballard
  • Major Edmund B. Dickerson

Company Commanders

  • Captain Claiborne Lawson
  • Captain William Cunningham
  • Captain Alexander Cummins
  • Captain Callehill Memmis
  • Captain William Lewis
  • Captain Joseph Scott Sr.
  • Captain Charles P Pilham
  • Captain Richard Taylor
  • Captain Tarlton Payne

Regimental Staff

  • Quartermaster Josiah Valentine
  • Quartermaster Thomas Hubbard
  • Adjutant Thomas Bown
  • Adjutant Samuel Hogg
  • Paymaster John Sutton
  • Surgeon Alexander Skinner
  • Surgeon’s Mate Miles King
  • Quartermaster Sergeant William Price
  • Sergeant Major George Willey
  • Drum Major Robert Plowman
  • Fife Major Patrick Spencer