• The Provisional Army of Virginia, also known as the Provisional Army and the Volunteer Forces of Virginia and the Citizens Army of Virginia was a military...
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    the Confederate Army; one of the more well known was the Provisional Army of Virginia. Control and operation of the Confederate army were administered...
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  • generals, not duly appointed and confirmed Confederate States Army (almost always Provisional Army of the Confederacy) generals. They were fighting for the Confederate...
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    end of the American Civil War. During the Civil War, the Virginia militia was the main recruiting body for first the Provisional Army of Virginia and...
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    Jackson became an officer in the state forces of Virginia. He was later appointed in the Provisional Army of the Confederates States (PACS) while also holding...
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    Robert E. Lee (category Army of Northern Virginia)
    commander of the Confederate States Army toward the end of the war. He led the Army of Northern Virginia, the Confederacy's most powerful army, from 1862...
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    A Virginia State Navy (or Virginia Navy) existed twice. During the American Revolutionary War, the provisional government of the Virginia Colony authorized...
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    John B. Floyd (category Democratic Party members of the Virginia House of Delegates)
    general in the Provisional Army of Virginia, but on May 23, 1861, he was appointed a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army (CSA). He was first...
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    in the Provisional Army of Virginia, which was a short lived force commanded by Robert E. Lee, prior to Virginia fully augmenting into forces of the Confederacy...
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  • The Army of West Virginia served in the Union Army during the American Civil War and was the primary field army of the Department of West Virginia. It...
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    State militia (Virginia) had at least one brevet general (Francis Henney Smith). Although not as prevalent as in the Union Army, some dates of rank in the...
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    John C. Pemberton (category People from Warrenton, Virginia)
    Artillery of the Provisional Army of Virginia. Upon the absorption of the Provisional Army of Virginia into the PACS, Pemberton was appointed a major of artillery...
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    The Third Corps, Army of Northern Virginia was a unit of the Provisional Army of the Confederate States. After the death of Lt. General Thomas J. Jackson...
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    Army in 1796. In 1798, during the Quasi-War with France, the U.S. Congress established a three-year "Provisional Army" of 10,000 men, consisting of twelve...
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    formal secession, one of the first pieces of legislation from the convention was the creation of the Provisional Army of Virginia. The one hundred and...
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    Thomas T. Fauntleroy (soldier) (category Members of the Virginia House of Delegates)
    the Provisional Army of Virginia. However, by the following month, the Confederate States Army had been organized and the Provisional Army of Virginia was...
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    States Army during the American Civil War. At the midpoint of the war, he commanded the Department of Western Virginia, defending the Virginia and Tennessee...
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    commander-in-chief of the Confederate armies, when elected, he assumed the office of Provisional President. Three candidates for provisional Vice President...
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    Richard S. Ewell (category People of Virginia in the American Civil War)
    his home state of Virginia declared secession, Ewell resigned from the U.S. Army on May 7, 1861, to join the Provisional Army of Virginia. He was appointed...
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    Station, both in Virginia, and Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., were once part of MDW. Cameron Station and Davison Army Airfield, near...
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    Sandie Pendleton (category People of Virginia in the American Civil War)
    lieutenant in the Provisional Army of Virginia, Sandie Pendleton left for Harpers Ferry on June 11, having completed only four of seven examinations...
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    James L. Kemper (category Speakers of the Virginia House of Delegates)
    brigadier general in the Provisional Army of Virginia and then a colonel in the Confederate States Army, becoming head of the 7th Virginia Infantry. At First...
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    Fort Wingate (category Former installations of the United States Army)
    to join the Provisional Army of Virginia after the state seceded from the Union. Fort Lyon was closed on 10 September 1861 at the start of the Civil War...
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  • for the newly created professional Provisional Army of Virginia, while Hunton was recruiting for the Volunteer army. Professional soldiering was unattractive...
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  • April 27, 1861, Virginia formed the Provisional Army of Virginia in addition to its actively maintained state militia. The Provisional Army of the Confederate...
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    secessionist Virginia General Assembly (state legislature). The precursor to the permanent Congressional legislature was the temporary Provisional Congress of the...
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    Daniel Ruggles (category People of Virginia in the American Civil War)
    1861 Appointed a Brigadier General of Militia and Colonel in the Provisional Army of Virginia he was given command of the Aquia District in May 1861. There...
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    Scott Shipp (category People of Virginia in the American Civil War)
    general with the active rank of captain in the Provisional Army of Virginia. He was appointed a major with the 21st Virginia Infantry in June, 1861. He...
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  • Charles J. P. Cresap (category Members of the Virginia House of Delegates)
    out of an allegiance to the Commonwealth of Virginia, not necessarily in opposition to the Union. Previously a second lieutenant with the Provisional Army...
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    Main Army. On December 1, the first day of the army's next regular reporting period following the fall of Fort Washington, Washington provisionally grouped...
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