| Feb
- Aug |
First
Virginia trains in Williamsburg, VA Aug Regiment marches north
to join "Grand Army" at Harlem Heights |
| Oct |
Regiment
becomes part of Virginia Brigade under Col. Weedon |
| Dec |
Regiment
assigned to Lord Stirling's Brigade and take part in Battle
of Trenton |
| 1777 |
| Jan |
Regiment
under command of Brig Gen'l Mercer, takes part in Battle of
Princeton |
| Feb |
Regiment
assigned under Brig Gen'l Muhlenbuerg Sept Muhlenburg's & Weedon's
Brigades engage in rear guard action at Brandywine. |
| Oct |
Regiment
as part of Greene's Division takes part in Battle of Germantown |
| Dec |
Regiment
suffers with fellow patriots at Valley Forge |
| 1778 |
| Jun |
Regiment
takes part in action at Monmouth, last engagement in the North. |
| Sept
|
The
White Plains arrangement reorganizes the Virginia Line. 9th
Virginia is absorbed into the remnants of the First |
| 1779 |
| May |
A
second reorganization has 5th, 7th, 10th, & 11thVirginia Regiments
consolidated into the First Virginia. |
| Oct |
The
First Virginia is ordered to the Carolinas. |
| 1780 |
| May |
The
First Virginia Detachment is captured by Sir Henry Clinton at
Charleston, SC. With the exception of the Ft. Pitt garrison,
and until 1781, only State Line and Militia were left as a defense
force. When the war ended for the First Virginia, there were
only five companies that could be accounted for and only two
officers who could trace their history with the Regiment for
more than two years |
Sources:
Sanchez
- Saavedra, E.M, "1st Virginia Regiment of Foot, 1775-1783," unpublished
dissertation, Virginia State Library, 1975
Sellers,
J. R. Virginia Continental Line 1775-1780, University Ann Arbor,
MI: Microfilm Inc., 1972 "Virginia Soldiers in the Revolution,"
Virginia State Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 20, 65-67
Ward,
C., The War of the Revolution, Vols. 1 & 2, NY, MacMillan Co., 1952
(esp. 352,369,582)
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