Culpeper Minutemen

Culpeper Minutemen
Active
  • July 12, 1775 - January 1776
  • 1860-1865
  • 1898
  • 1900-present
  • 1917-1918
DisbandedMerged into the Company B, 13th Virginia Infantry, Confederate States Army
Country Great Britain
 Confederate States of America
 United States
 Virginia
Allegiance United States
 Confederate States of America
 Virginia
Branch(Infantry) Virginia Militia

Confederate States Army

Virginia National Guard

U.S. Army

Virginia Defense Force
TypeMilitia, army, National Guard, state defense force
Size(250) American Revolutionary War

? American Civil War
? Spanish–American War
? World War I

? Virginia Defense Force
Nickname(s)The Old Bergaide
EngagementsAmerican Revolutionary War

American Civil War

Spanish–American War

World War I
Commanders
American Revolutionary CommanderColonel Lawrence Taliaferro
American Revolutionary Executive OfficerLieutenant Colonel Edward Stevens

The Culpeper Minutemen was a militia group formed in 1775 in the district around Culpeper, Virginia. Like minutemen in other British colonies, the men drilled in military tactics and trained to respond to emergencies "at a minute's notice".