Culpeper Minutemen

Culpeper Minutemen
Active	July 12, 1775 - January 1776 1860-1865 1898 1900-present 1917-1918
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 Confederate States Army Virginia National Guard U.S. Army Virginia Defense Force
Type	Militia, 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
Engagements	American Revolutionary War Battle of Great Bridge (1775) 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".