My name is Brett Schulte and I’m the owner/editor of The Siege of Petersburg Online (http://www.beyondthecrater.com), contact URL: http://www.beyondthecrater.com/contact/
For anyone who is an expert on any of the Virginia units listed below:
10th Virginia Reserves Battalion Infantry
11th Virginia Infantry
11th Virginia Reserves Battalion Infantry
12th Virginia Infantry
14th Virginia Infantry
15th Virginia Infantry
16th Virginia Infantry
17th Virginia Infantry
18th Virginia Infantry
19th Virginia Infantry
1st (Armory) Virginia Local Defense Troops Battalion Infantry
1st City Regiment Infantry
1st Virginia Infantry
1st Virginia Regular Battalion Infantry
1st Virginia Reserves Battalion Infantry
1st Virginia Reserves Infantry
22nd Virginia Battalion Infantry
24th Virginia Infantry
25th Virginia Battalion Infantry
26th Virginia Infantry
28th Virginia Infantry
29th Virginia Infantry
2nd (Quartermaster) Virginia Local Defense Troops Battalion Infantry
2nd City Regiment Infantry
2nd Virginia Local Defense Troops Infantry
2nd Virginia Reserves Infantry
30th Virginia Infantry
32nd Virginia Infantry
34th Virginia Infantry
38th Virginia Infantry
3nd Virginia Local Defense Troops Infantry
3rd (Clerks) Virginia Local Defense Troops Battalion Infantry
3rd City Regiment Infantry
3rd Virginia Infantry
3rd Virginia Reserves Battalion Infantry
3rd Virginia Reserves Battalion Infantry (Chrisman’s)
40th Virginia Infantry
41st Virginia Infantry
44th Virginia Battalion Infantry
46th Virginia Infantry
47th Virginia Infantry
4th (Naval) Virginia Local Defense Troops Battalion Infantry
4th City Regiment Infantry
4th Virginia Reserves Battalion Infantry
4th Virginia Reserves Infantry
53rd Virginia Infantry
55th Virginia Infantry
56th Virginia Infantry
57th Virginia Infantry
59th Virginia Infantry
5th (Arsenal) Virginia Local Defense Troops Battalion Infantry
61st Virginia Infantry
6th (Tredegar) Virginia Local Defense Troops Battalion Infantry
6th Virginia Infantry
6th Virginia Reserves Battalion Infantry
7th Virginia Infantry
7th Virginia Reserves Battalion Infantry
8th Virginia Infantry
8th Virginia Reserves Battalion Infantry
9th Virginia Infantry
9th Virginia Reserves Battalion Infantry
Castle Thunder Company Infantry
Hobson’s Company Second Class Virginia Militia
Hood’s Virginia Reserves Battalion Infantry
Provost Guard (Richmond)
10th Virginia Cavalry
11th Virginia Cavalry
12th Virginia Cavalry
13th Virginia Cavalry
15th Virginia Cavalry
1st Virginia Cavalry
1st Virginia Local Defense Troops Battalion Cavalry
24th Virginia Cavalry
2nd Virginia Cavalry
35th Virginia Battalion Cavalry
3rd Virginia Cavalry
4th Virginia Cavalry
5th Virginia Cavalry
6th Virginia Cavalry
7th Virginia Cavalry
9th Virginia Cavalry
Owen’s City Regiment Cavalry
10th Virginia Battalion Heavy Artillery
18th Virginia Battalion Heavy Artillery
19th Virginia Battalion Heavy Artillery
1st Company, Richmond Virginia Howitzers
1st Rockbridge Virginia Artillery (Graham’s VA Battery)
1st Stuart Virginia Artillery (Johnston’s VA Battery)
20th Virginia Battalion Heavy Artillery
2nd Company, Richmond Virginia Howitzers
2nd Nelson Virginia Artillery (Rives’ VA Battery)
2nd Rockbridge Virginia Artillery (Donald’s VA Battery)
2nd Stuart Virginia Artillery (McGregor’s VA Battery)
3rd Company, Richmond Virginia Howitzers
Albemarle Everett Virginia Artillery (Johnston’s VA Battery)
Albemarle Virginia Artillery (Sturdivant’s VA Battery)
Amherst-Nelson Virginia Artillery (Lamkin’s VA Battery)
Ashby Virginia Artillery (Chew’s VA Battery)
Ashland Virginia Artillery (Woolfolk’s VA Battery)
Bath Virginia Artillery (Taylor’s VA Battery)
Bedford Virginia Artillery (Smith’s VA Battery)
Caroline Virginia Artillery (Thornton’s VA Battery)
Chesterfield Johnston Virginia Artillery (Epes’ VA Battery)
Crenshaw Virginia Artillery (Ellett’s VA Battery)
Danville Ringgold Virginia Artillery (Dickenson’s VA Battery)
Danville Virginia Artillery (Price’s VA Battery)
Fauquier Virginia Artillery (Marshall’s VA Battery)
Fredericksburg Virginia Artillery (Pollock’s VA Battery)
Giles Virginia Artillery (French’s VA Battery)
Goochland Virginia Artillery (Guerrant’s VA Battery)
Halifax Virginia Artillery (Young’s VA Battery)
Halifax Virginia Heavy Artillery (Wright’s VA Battery)
James City Virginia Artillery (Davis’ VA Battery)
King William Virginia Artillery (Carter’s VA Battery)
Louisa Morris Virginia Artillery (Pendleton’s VA Battery)
Lunenburg Rebel Virginia Artillery (Allen’s VA Battery)
Lynchburg Beauregard Virginia Artillery (Shoemaker’s VA Battery)
Lynchburg Virginia Artillery (Blount’s VA Battery)
Lynchburg Virginia Artillery (Davidson’s VA Battery)
Mathews Virginia Artillery (Armistead’s VA Battery)
Neblett Virginia Heavy Artillery (Coleman’s VA Battery)
Norfolk Blues Virginia Artillery (Grandy’s VA Battery)
Norfolk Huger Virginia Artillery (Moore’s VA Battery)
Pamunkey Virginia Artillery (Jones’ VA Battery)
Petersburg Branch Virginia Artillery (Pegram’s VA Battery)
Petersburg Virginia Artillery (Graham’s VA Battery)
Pittsylvania Virginia Artillery (Penick’s VA Battery)
Powhatan Virginia Artillery (Dance’s VA Battery)
Richmond Courtney Virginia Artillery (Tanner’s VA Battery)
Richmond Fayette Virginia Artillery (Macon’s VA Battery)
Richmond Hampden Virginia Artillery (Caskie’s VA Battery)
Richmond Johnson’s Virginia Artillery (Clutter’s VA Battery)
Richmond Letcher Virginia Artillery (Brander’s VA Battery)
Richmond Martin Virginia Artillery (Martin’s VA Battery)
Richmond Orange Virginia Artillery (Fry’s VA Battery)
Richmond Otey Virginia Artillery (Walker’s VA Battery)
Richmond Parker Virginia Artillery
Richmond Purcell Virginia Artillery (Cayce’s VA Battery)
Salem Flying Virginia Artillery (Griffin’s VA Battery)
Southside Virginia Heavy Artillery (Drewry’s VA Battery)
Staunton Virginia Artillery (Garber’s VA Battery)
Surry Virginia Artillery (Hankins’ VA Battery)
United Virginia Artillery (Kevill’s VA Battery)
Warrenton Virginia Artillery (Utterback’s VA Battery)
Please contact me if you can provide any of the following:
1. Unit strengths for any time during the period from June 12, 1864 – April 9, 1865 located in regimental histories, newspapers, etc.
2. Consolidated Morning Reports and Muster Rolls for any time during the period from June 12, 1864 – April 9, 1865 located in regimental histories, newspapers, etc.
3. The weapons the unit was armed with at any point during this time.
4. Diary entries and letters from/about this unit and at least partially pertaining to the Siege of Petersburg
5. The commanders of the unit from June 1864-April 1865. In a lot of cases it is not all that well documented who commanded a regiment from the beginning to end of the Petersburg Campaign.
6. Images of commanders of the unit or men whose diary entries and letters you have.
7. Newspaper articles from the Civil War era until today which focus on the unit and its role in the Siege of Petersburg
8. The original sources for as much of the information above as possible
9. Anything else you might have pertaining to the Siege of Petersburg
In return for any information which I can use on my web site, I’ll gladly link back to any Civil War related site you wish from the unit’s home page at Beyond the Crater.
My goal with all of this is to put together the most complete Siege of Petersburg web site out there. Thank you for your time in reading this post and responding to my request if you have some of the materials listed above. If you have any suggestions about other items I could use to make my web site better, I would be happy to take those into consideration.
Brett Schulte