List of Virginia units in the American Civil War


Virginia provided the following units to the Virginia Militia and the Provisional Army of the Confederate States, part of the Confederate States Army, during the American Civil War. Despite Virginia's secession from the Union, along with newly created West Virginia, it also supplied 22,000 troops to the Union Army, the third-most troops from a southern state after Tennessee and North Carolina. This list includes Virginia Civil War units to both the Confederate States and Union armies.

Infantry units (PACS)

Infantry brigades

  • 1st Virginia Brigade
  • 2nd Virginia Brigade
  • 3rd Virginia Brigade
  • Wise Legion

Cavalry units (PACS)

Cavalry brigades

Artillery units (PACS)

Artillery regiments

Artillery battalions

Light artillery batteries

Stafford Light Artillery
  • VMI Artillery Section

Heavy artillery batteries

  • Bayley's Battery
  • Bethel Artillery
  • Botetourt Artillery
  • Campbell Battery
  • Coleman's Battery
  • Halifax Artillery
  • Johnston Artillery
  • Kyle's Battery
  • Lunenberg Artillery
  • Marion Artillery
  • Pamunkey Artillery

Horse artillery

Virginia State units

Virginia State Line

  • 1st Regiment, Virginia State Line
  • 2nd Regiment, Virginia State Line
  • 3rd Regiment, Virginia State Line
  • 4th Regiment, Virginia State Line
  • 5th Regiment, Virginia State Line

Virginia local defense battalions

  • 1st Battalion, Virginia Cavalry, Local Defense (Browne's)
  • 1st Battalion, Virginia Infantry, Local Defense
  • 2nd Battalion, Virginia Infantry, Local Defense
  • 3rd Battalion, Virginia Infantry, Local Defense
  • 4th Battalion, Virginia Infantry, Local Defense
  • 5th Battalion, Virginia Infantry, Local Defense
  • 6th Battalion, Virginia Infantry, Local Defense
  • 7th Battalion, Virginia Infantry, Local Defense

Union Virginia units