25th Virginia Infantry The 25th Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment raised in Virginia for service in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War . It fought mostly with the Army of the Northwest and Army of Northern Virginia . It ' s brave soldiers saw action from the first battle ( Philippi ) until the last ( Appomattox ) . The 25th Virginia was organized during the early summer of 1861 . Its members were raised in Upshur , Augusta , Highland , Bath , Pendleton , and Rockbridge counties . The unit participated in Lee ' s Cheat Mountain Campaign and Jackson ' s Valley Campaign . In the spring of 1862 the 9th Battalion , Virginia Infantry , four companies under the command of Lt . Colonel George W . Hansbrough that had served in the Army of the Northwest and fought at Greenbrier River and Camp Allegheny were merged into the 25th Virginia . After the July 11 , 1861 battle of Rich Mountain , the regiment was severely depleted due to Col . Pegram ' s surrender of Camp Garnett . Members of 1st Co . A ( Upshur Grays ) and 1st Co . B ( Rockbridge Guards ) were dispatched to Hart ' s Farm under command of Capt . Julius A . DeLagnel to ward off an expected Federal assault . Men of the 20th VA and 25th VA , along with a lone cannon took position in the stable yard of the Hart farm and awaited the Federal assault . As the Federals appeared on the hillside , the long - awaited battle that the boys of Virginia had anticipated commenced . The small ( 310 men ) force of Confederates held back the initial attacks , but overwhelming numbers , along with a final charge of the 19th Ohio forced the surviving members of the Confederate outpost to flee . The following morning , being cut off and surrounded , Col . Pegram surrendered the balance of his command at Camp Garnett , including the majority of the 25th VA . The 25th lost 5 killed , 11 wounded , and 2 captured at Hart ' s farm . Included in the dead were Upshur Gray privates Henry Clay Jackson and Oscar Sherwood , whose names can be seen engraved in the rock that they defended to this day . After Jackson ' s campaign finished , the regiment was assigned to General Early ' s , J . R . Jones ' , and W . Terry ' s Brigade , Army of Northern Virginia . It took an active part in the campaigns of the army from the Seven Days ' Battles to Cold Harbor , then fought with Early in the Shenandoah Valley and in various conflicts around Appomattox . This regiment reported 18 casualties at Camp Alleghany , 72 at McDowell , and 29 at Cross Keys and Port Republic . It lost 1 killed and 24 wounded at Cedar Mountain , had 3 killed and 20 wounded at Sharpsburg , and reported 1 killed and 13 wounded at Fredericksburg . Of the 280 engaged at Gettysburg , twenty - five percent were disabled . There were 15 members ( 1 officer , 14 enlisted ) of the 25th at Appomattox on April 9 , 1865 . ( 25th VA Inf . Richard Armstrong pg . 88 ) The field officers were Colonels John C . Higginbotham , George A . Porterfield , and George H . Smith ; Lieutenant Colonels Patrick B . Duffy , Jonathan McGee Heck , Robert D . Lilley , and John A . Robinson ; and Majors Wilson Harper , Albert G . Reger , and William T . Thompson . Companies . When the regiment was reorganized in 1862 to bring it back to full strength the following companies were added from the 9th Battalion Virginia Infantry