The 51st Virginia Miliita appears to be recruited from Fredrick County Virginia in the Shenandoah Valley. Their history seems to be a bit incomplete. However, I am finding dead Confederates at Camp Chase, Ohio who were with the 51st Virginia Miliita and being listed as captured at Fort Donelson, TN. We know the 51st Virginia Infantry was at Fort Donelson but no one seems to know about the 51st Va. Miliita as being there. Two officers does not make a Milita unit however by all accounts they should not have been there.