The 50th Virginia Infantry Regiment was an

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raised in

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for service in the

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during the

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. It fought mostly with the

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and in Tennessee. The 50th Virginia was organized in July 1861, with ten companies and three companies of cavalry temporarily attached. The regiment participated in the Battle of Carnifex Ferry on 10 September 1861; afterwards one of the cavalry companies was disabled and the other two transferred to the 8th Regiment Virginia Cavalry. The unit was reorganized in May 1862, with nine companies. It moved to Tennessee and in February 1862, was captured at Fort Donelson. After being exchanged, it was assigned to the Department of Western Virginia and fought in Gen. Wm. W. Loring's

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and participated in the capture of Charleston, Virginia (now, West Virginia) on 13 September 1862. Later the 50th served in J.M. Jones', G.C. Wharton's, and Augustus Forsberg's Brigade, Army of Northern Virginia. It participated in numerous conflicts from Chancellorsville to Cold Harbor, moved with

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to the Shenandoah Valley, and fought its last battle at Waynesboro. The regiment reported 10 killed and 40 wounded at Fort Donelson, and there were 8 killed and 110 wounded at Chancellorsville. More than forty percent of the 240 engaged at Gettysburg were disabled, and it sustained heavy casualties in the fight at The Wilderness. During April 1865, it disbanded. The field officers were Colonels Thomas Poage, Alexander W. Reynolds, and A.S. Vandeventer; Lieutenant Colonels William W. Finney and Logan H. N. Salyer; and Majors Lynville J. Perkins and C.E. Thorburn.

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