20th Virginia Cavalry

The 20th Virginia Volunteer Cavalry Regiment was a cavalry regiment raised in Virginia for service in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. It fought mostly in western Virginia.[1]

20th Virginia Volunteer Cavalry Regiment
Flag of Virginia, 1861
ActiveAugust 1863 – April 1865
DisbandedApril 1865
CountryConfederacy
Allegiance Confederate States of America
RoleCavalry
EngagementsAmerican Civil War: Valley Campaigns of 1864

Virginia's 20th Cavalry Regiment was organized in August, 1863, and was composed of "North Western Virginians." The unit served in W.L. Jackson's Brigade and confronted the Federals in western Virginia and in the Shenandoah Valley. It disbanded in mid-April, 1865. The field officers were Colonel W.W. Arnett, Lieutenant Colonels Dudley Evans and John B. Lady, and Major Elihu Hutton.

Elihu Hutton, 1860s tintype
Col. Elihu Hutton

Companies and officers
Sortable table
Company Nickname Recruited at First (then later) Commanding Officer

[2]

ACompany AMarion County
Monongalia County		Dudley Evans
BCompany BMarion County
Monongalia County		William W. Arnett
many formerly from Company D of 19th Virginia Cavalry
CCompany CRandolph CountyElihu Hutton
DCompany DBarbour CountyEdward M. Corder
ECompany EHarrison CountyJohn W. Young
FCompany FHarrison CountyAsbury Lewis
many formerly from Companies A and C of 19th Virginia Cavalry
GWood County GraysWood County
Pleasants County		Paul Neal
John D. Neal[3]
HCompany HWirt CountyJoseph Hayhurst
many formerly from Company A and C of 19th Virginia Cavalry
ICompany IRockbridge CountyHenry L. Heiskell
KCompany KRockbridge CountyOrtho Alexander

In the science fiction short story, Field Test by Keith Laumer, a newly designed and built artificially intelligent superheavy tank called a Bolo Mark XX Model B is assigned to "the 20th Virginia, a regiment ancient and honorable, with a history dating back to Terra Insula".[4]

See also

References
  1. Richard L. Armstrong, 19th and 20th Virginia Cavalry (H.E. Howard, Inc.1994)
  2. derived from Armstrong, pp. 21-22
  3. They were brothers, Paul (1832-1919) graduating from VMI, and becoming an instructor and later a merchant and recruiter. He contracted typhoid fever in 1861 and so did not initially lead the unit and was arrested at Ravenswood on his way south, then sent to Camp Chase. His brother had been in Co. I, 31st Virginia Infantry including about a year in the Stonewall brigade, before transferring to this unit. Per H. E. Matheny's Wood County, West Virginia in Civil War Times (republished 1987 by Trans-Allegheny Books of Parkersburg), pp. 535-537.
  4. Keith Laumer. "Field Test". Baen eBooks. Retrieved 25 March 2015.

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