Virginia provided the following units to the Virginia Militia and the Provisional Army of the Confederate States (PACS), 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 totaling at 22,000. This list includes Virginia Civil War units to both the Confederate States and Union armies.
Cavalry battalions, companies, and mounted rifle guards
Irregular units
Artillery units (PACS)
Unidentified soldier in Confederate uniform and Richmond Howitzers artillery unit hatPrivate Alexander T. Harris of Richmond "Parker" Virginia Light Artillery Battery
Artillery regiments
1st Regiment, Virginia Artillery
1st Regiment, Virginia Light Artillery (Pendleton's)
Private William H. Presgraves of Company K, 97th Militia Virginia Infantry Regiment
Virginia local defense battalions
1st Battalion, Virginia Cavalry, Local Defense (Browne's)
1st Battalion, Virginia Infantry, Local Defense (Ordnance Battalion)
2nd Battalion, Virginia Infantry, Local Defense (Waller's/Quartermaster Battalion)
3rd Battalion, Virginia Infantry, Local Defense (Departmental)
4th Battalion, Virginia Infantry, Local Defense (Naval/Navy Department Battalion)
5th Battalion, Virginia Infantry, Local Defense (Arsenal Battalion)
6th Battalion, Virginia Infantry, Local Defense (Tredegar Battalion)
7th Battalion, Virginia Infantry, Local Defense (1st Nitre Battalion)
Union Virginia units
1st Regiment Loyal Eastern Virginia Volunteers
1st Regiment, Virginia Infantry
4th Virginia Infantry (later became 4th West Virginia Infantry)
5th Virginia Infantry (later became 5th West Virginia Infantry)
16th Regiment, Virginia Infantry
167th Regiment of Virginia Militia (originally a Confederate unit. Changed to Union after creation of the Restored Government of Virginia. Later became the 167th Regiment of West Virginia Militia)
Dameron's Independent Company, Virginia Volunteers
Armstrong, Richard L., Eleventh Virginia Infantry (The Virginia regimental histories series). H. E. Howard, 1st edition, 1989. ISBN 978-0-930919-68-9
Alderman, John P., Twenty Ninth Virginia Infantry (The Virginia regimental histories series). H. E. Howard, 1st edition, 1989. ISBN 978-0-930919-66-5
Ashcraft, John M., Thirty First Virginia Infantry (The Virginia regimental histories series). H. E. Howard, 1st edition, 1988. ISBN 978-0-930919-59-7
Cavanaug, Michael A., Sixth Virginia Infantry (The Virginia regimental histories series). H. E. Howard, 1st edition, 1988. ISBN 978-0-930919-57-3
Chapla, John D., Forty Eighth Virginia Infantry (The Virginia regimental histories series). H. E. Howard, 1st edition, 1989. ISBN 978-0-930919-67-2
Davis, James A., 51st Virginia Infantry (The Virginia regimental histories series). H. E. Howard, 2nd edition, 1984. ISBN 978-0-930919-13-9
Delauter, Roger U., McNeill's Rangers (The Virginia regimental histories series). H. E. Howard, 1st edition, 1986. ISBN 978-0-930919-34-4
Dickinson, Jack L., Eighth Virginia Infantry (The Virginia regimental histories series). H. E. Howard, 2nd edition, 1986. ISBN 978-0-930919-28-3
Driver, Robert J., The First and Second Rockbridge Artillery (The Virginia regimental histories series). H. E. Howard, 2nd edition, 1987. ISBN 978-0-930919-35-1
Hearn, Chet, The Civil War: Virginia. Salamander Books, Ltd., 2005. ISBN 978-1-84065-558-2
Murphy, Terrence, Tenth Virginia Infantry (The Virginia regimental histories series). H. E. Howard, 1st edition, 1989. ISBN 978-0-930919-74-0
O'Sullivan, Richard, Fifty Fifth Virginia Infantry (The Virginia regimental histories series). H. E. Howard, 1st edition, 1989. ISBN 978-0-930919-73-3
Rankin, Thomas M., 37th Virginia Infantry (The Virginia regimental histories series). H. E. Howard, 1st edition, 1987. ISBN 978-0-930919-44-3
Riggs, David F. Thirteenth Virginia Infantry (The Virginia regimental histories series). H. E. Howard, 1st edition, 1988. ISBN 978-0-930919-65-8
Riggs, Susan A., Twenty First Virginia Infantry (The Virginia regimental histories series). H. E. Howard, 1st edition, 1991. ISBN 978-1-56190-013-8
Ruffner, Kevin Conley, Forty Fourth Virginia Infantry (The Virginia regimental histories series). H. E. Howard, 1st edition, 1987. ISBN 978-0-930919-47-4
Scott, J. L., Forty Fifth Virginia Infantry (The Virginia regimental histories series). H. E. Howard, 1st edition, 1989. ISBN 978-0-930919-80-1
Sherwood, W. Cullen, The Nelson Artillery - Lamkin and Rives batteries (The Virginia regimental histories series). H. E. Howard, 1st edition, 1991. ISBN 978-1-56190-019-0
Sublett, Charles W., 57th Virginia Infantry (The Virginia regimental histories series). H. E. Howard, 1st edition, 1986. ISBN 978-0-930919-24-5
Trask, Benjamin H., 9th Virginia Infantry (The Virginia regimental histories series). H. E. Howard, 1st edition, 1984. ISBN 978-0-930919-10-8
Trask, Benjamin H., Sixty First Virginia Infantry (The Virginia regimental histories series). H. E. Howard, 1st edition, 1988. ISBN 978-0-930919-64-1
Wallace, Lee A, Jr., Fifth Virginia Infantry (The Virginia regimental histories series). H. E. Howard, 1st edition, 1988. ISBN 978-0-930919-51-1
Wallace, Lee, The Richmond Howitzers (The Virginia regimental histories series). H. E. Howard, 1st edition, 1994. ISBN 978-1-56190-057-2
Wallace, Lee A, Jr., Seventeenth Virginia Infantry (The Virginia regimental histories series). H. E. Howard, 1st edition, 1990. ISBN 978-1-56190-003-9
Weaver, Jeffrey C., The Nottoway Artillery & Barr's Battery Virginia Light Artillery (The Virginia regimental histories series). H. E. Howard, 1st edition, 1994. ISBN 978-1-56190-063-3
Weaver, Patti O., Reserves (The Virginia regimental histories series). H. E. Howard, 1st edition, 2002. ISBN 978-1-56190-120-3
West, P. Michael, 30th Battalion Virginia Sharpshooters (The Virginia regimental histories series). H. E. Howard, 1st edition, 1995. ISBN 978-1-56190-081-7
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