{{Infobox military unit | unit_name = 24th Virginia Infantry Regiment | image = Flag of Virginia (1861–1865).svg | image_size = 150 | caption = Flag of Virginia, 1861 | dates = June 1861 &ndash; April 1865 | country = Confederacy | allegiance = {{flagicon|CSA}} Confederate States of America | branch = {{army|CSA}} | type = Infantry | role = | nickname = | battles = First Battle of Manassas<br/>Peninsula Campaign<br/>Seven Days' Battles<br/>Second Battle of Bull Run<br/>Battle of Antietam<br/>Battle of Fredericksburg<br/>Siege of Suffolk<br/>Battle of Gettysburg<br/>Battle of Cold Harbor<br/>Siege of Petersburg<br/>Battle of Five Forks<br/>Battle of Sailor's Creek<br/>Battle of Williamsburg<br/>Appomattox Campaign | disbanded = April 1865 <!-- Commanders -->| notable_commanders = Colonel Jubal A. Early <br /> Colonel William R. Terry }}

The '''24th Virginia Infantry Regiment''' was an infantry regiment raised in southwestern Virginia for service in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. It fought throughout the conflict, mostly with the Army of Northern Virginia. The 24th Virginia's most prominent field officers were Colonels Jubal A. Early (who was promoted to brigade command after the battle and would become a key Confederate General) and William R. Terry; Lieutenant Colonels Peter Hairston, Jr. and Richard L. Maury; and Majors William W. Bentley, Joseph A. Hambrick, and J.P. Hammet.

==History==

The 24th Virginia was assembled in Lynchburg in June, 1861, with companies recruited from Floyd, Franklin, Carroll, Giles, Patrick, Pulaski, Mercer, Montgomery County and Henry Counties.<ref>Ralph White Gunn, 24th Virginia Infantry (Lynchburg, H.E. Howard Inc. Virginia Regimental History Series, 1st edition 1987)</ref>

After fighting under former U.S. Army officer and Franklin County delegate Col. Jubal Early at the First Manassas, the 24th Virginia was assigned to Brigades in the Army of Northern Virginia often colloquially referred to by the commander's surname—first commanded by Early (hence "Early's Brigade"), then after his promotion, by future CSA General and Virginia state senator W. R. Terry (hence "Terry's Brigade"), who was temporarily disabled by a wound at the Battle of Williamsburg and temporarily replaced as brigade commander by future CSA General and later Virginia Governor James L. Kemper (hence "Kemper's Brigade").

The 24th Virginia participated in the Army of Northern Virginia's campaigns from the Peninsula Campaign to Gettysburg, except when it was detached to Siege of Suffolk under Gen. Longstreet. It was involved in the Drewry's Bluff (May 1862), Plymouth (in Washington, North Carolina in April 1864), the Petersburg siege north of the James River (June 1864-March 1865), and the final Appomattox operations.

The regiment contained 740 men in April, 1862. It reported 189 casualties at Williamsburg and 107 casualties at Seven Pines as it defended the Confederate capitol at Richmond during the Peninsula Campaign. It lost 4 killed, 61 wounded, and 14 missing at Frayser's Farm, and 8 men were wounded at Fredericksburg. About forty percent of its 395 soldiers engaged at Gettysburg were disabled. Many were lost at Sayler's Creek in the war's final weeks. After General Lee formally surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox Court House, no officers but 22 men surrendered on April 9, 1865.

==Companies and officers==

{| class="wikitable sortable" |+ Sortable table |- ! scope="col" | Company ! scope="col" |Nickname ! scope="col" | Recruited at ! scope="col" |First (then later) Commanding Officer <ref>derived from Gunn, pp. 1-3, 63-64</ref> |- || A||Floyd Riflemen|| Floyd County||Dr. Calohill M. Stigleman<br>John W. Shelton |- || B||Franklin Rifles || Franklin County||Joseph A. Hambrick (VMI)<br>Charles E. Bernard<br>John A. Bernard<br>George E. Dennis |- || C||Carroll Boys || Carroll County||Alexander C. Brancom<br>William R. Jennings<br>Abner W. C. Nowlin |- || D||Early Guards||Franklin County||Thomas S. Taylor (VMI)<br>Mordecai Cook |- || E||Pulaski boys || Dublin, Pulaski County||William W. Bentley<br>William Radford<br>James Randall Kent Jr. |- || F||New River Rifles ||Giles County||William Eggleston<br>Thomas Haden<br>Brainard Hines<br>George A. Porterfield |- || G|||| Mercer County||Robert A. Richardson<br>Benjamin P. Grigsby<br>Hercules Scott |- || H||Henry Guards|| Henry County||Dr. Peter R. Reamey<br> Orren W. Barrow<br>Olerce Nolan<br>John W. Headen |- || I|||| Patrick County||Andrew Murray Lybrook |- || K||New River Grays ||Montgomery County||Dr. James Preston Hammet(VMI)<br>John Henry LeTeller<br>John T. Radford |}

==See also== {{portal|American Civil War}} *List of Virginia Civil War units *List of West Virginia Civil War Confederate units

==References==

{{reflist}} *{{USGovernment|url=http://www.civilwar.nps.gov/cwss/regiments.cfm|title=Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System|agency=National Park Service}}

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