3rd Virginia Cavalry Regiment

3rd Virginia Cavalry Regiment
Flag of Virginia, 1861
ActiveJuly 1861 – April 1865
DisbandedApril 1865
CountryConfederacy
AllegianceConfederate States of America Confederate States of America
Branch Confederate States Army
RoleCavalry
EngagementsSkirmish at Cedar Lane
Peninsula Campaign
Seven Days' Battles
Second Battle of Bull Run
Battle of Antietam
Battle of Fredericksburg
Battle of Chancellorsville
Battle of Brandy Station
Battle of Gettysburg
Bristoe Campaign
Overland Campaign
Siege of Petersburg
Valley Campaigns of 1864
Appomattox Campaign
Battle of Five Forks
Trooper Robert Vaughan of Co. I, 3rd Virginia Cavalry Regiment

The 3rd Virginia Cavalry Regiment was a cavalry regiment raised in Tidewater and Southside Virginia for service in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. Initially assigned to defend the Hampton Roads area, it fought mostly with the Army of Northern Virginia.[1] As shown by the company table below, members were raised in eight counties: Mecklenburg, Elizabeth City, New Kent, Halifax, Nottoway, Cumberland, Dinwiddie, and Prince Edward Counties.

  1. ^ Thomas P. Nanzig (1989). 3rd Virginia Cavalry. Lynchburg: H.E. Howard Inc. ISBN 9780930919856.