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Virginia 12th Infantry, Company I (Confederate)

5/15/61

Organized - Virginia 12th Infantry, Company I - Virginia

9/14/62

Battle - Crampton's Gap - Frederick County, Maryland; Washington County, Maryland

Crampton's Gap
Crampton's Gap

Only about one thousand Confederates defended Crampton's Gap, the southernmost of the South Mountain passes. At around 4:00 p.m., Maj. Gen. Henry Slocum's division charged into the gap and dislodged the Confederates from the protection of a stone fence. The arrival of four regiments under Gen. Howell Cobb did little to stem the Union tide. Reinforced by a brigade of Vermonters, the Federals made a second attack and drove the remaining Confederates down the western slope of South Mountain, leaving the VI Co…READ MORE

4/30/63

Battle - Chancellorsville - Spotsylvania County, Virginia

Chancellorsville
Chancellorsville

On April 27, 1863, Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker launched a turning movement designed to pry Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia out of its lines at Fredericksburg.READ MORE

4/9/65

Mustered Out - Virginia 12th Infantry, Company I - Virginia


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