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= Virginia =

Introduction
Virginia was a prominent part of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. Many of the battles fought during the war were fought on Virginian land. The first and last significant battles were held in Virginia and the men that Virginina supplied for the fight were men from all economic and social levels, both slaveholders and nonslaveholders, as well as former Unionists. The only areas that sent few or no men to fight for the Confederacy were located on the border with the North.

Union Companies

 * Dameron's Independent Company, Virginia Volunteers
 * Loudoun County Virginia Rangers

Union Regiments

 * 1st Regiment, Loyal Eastern Virginia Volunteers
 * 1st Regiment, Virginia Infantry (3 months, 1861
 * 16th Regiment, Virginia Infantry

Military Cemeteries

 * Our Soldiers Cemetery


 * Find a Grave website - lists quite a few names of individuals throughout the U.S. in their prospective cemeteries. Doesn't include every individual that has been buried in the U.S. as it only contains approximately 50 million names.


 * The U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs National Cemetery Administration- online research tool that searches their records to determine if an individual is buried in one of their 119 national cemeteries. need to know the last name of the individual and helpful to know birth or death date and/or cemetery of burial.


 * United States Civil War Center Cemetery Listings- contains by name list of soldiers buried in several national cemeteries. Must know the battle in which the soldier died or the cemetery in which they are buried as there is no search engine by name.
 * Civil War Veterans of Washingon County, Maine - contains a list of cemeteries in Washington County, Maine and the names and regiments of those soldiers buried there. particular focus on 6th and 9th regiments.


 * Many soldiers were not identified at the time of burial and were either buried in mass graves or in unmarked graves. Some were also sent home and buried in family plots.