Culpeper Minutemen | |
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Disbanded | Merged 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 Virginia Defense Force |
Type | Militia, army, National Guard, state defense force |
Size | (250) American Revolutionary War ? American Civil War |
Nickname(s) | The Old Bergaide |
Engagements | American Revolutionary War
American Civil War Spanish–American War World War I |
Commanders | |
American Revolutionary Commander | Colonel Lawrence Taliaferro |
American Revolutionary Executive Officer | Lieutenant 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".