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The 45th Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment raised in the Commonwealth of Virginia for service in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. It fought mostly in the mountainous area that today encompasses the border regions of Virginia and West Virginia, and was part of Jubal Early's Army of the Valley during the Valley Campaigns of 1864. ==Companies and formation== Companies of militia in southwest Virginia began to form as soon as secession occurred on April 17, 1861. Ex-governor John B. Floyd was made a brigadier general and asked to organize these militia into a fighting force. Floyd called the militia to assemble at the central railroad hub of Wytheville and appointed West Point graduate Henry Heth to drill and organize the volunteers. By May 29, Heth had formed ten companies of roughly 900 men into a fighting unit and it was mustered in as the 45th Virginia. The original ten companies were:〔Scott, pp. 2–3〕 # Company A – Floyd Guard (Tazewell Co.), under Captain Joseph Harrison # Company B – Mount Airy Rough and Readys (Wythe Co.), under Captain John Buchanan # Company C – Grayson Rifles (Grayson Co.), under Captain Alexander M. Davis # Company D – Minute Men (Wythe Co.), under Captain Robert H. Gleaves # Company E – Rough and Readys (Carroll Co.), under Captain William Lundy # Company F – Sharpshooters (Bland Co.), under Captain Andrew J. Grayson # Company G – West Augusta Rifles (Tazewell Co.), under Captain William H. Browne # Company H – Tazewell Rangers (Tazewell Co.), under Captain Edwin H. Harman # Company I – Reed Island Rifles (Carroll Co.), under Captain Thomas D. Bolt # Company K – Tazewell Boys(Tazewell Co.), under Captain Titus V. Williams On June 17, Heth was promoted to colonel and made commander of the regiment. Born in Tidewater Virginia, Heth was unpopular with the mountain farmers and was known as a strict disciplinarian. In turn, Heth was frustrated by the illiteracy and lack of discipline of his men, as well as General Floyd's actions as commanding officer. He wrote of Floyd, "I soon discovered that my chief was as incapacitated for the work he had undertaken as I would have been to lead an Italian opera."〔Heth, p. 152〕 The regiment also elected Gabriel Colvin Wharton, a Virginia Military Institute graduate from Culpeper as major, but within a month he was made a colonel, in command of the 51st Virginia Infantry. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「45th Virginia Infantry」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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