We have also incorporated Staff Offices within our Battalion allowing Non-Commissioned Officers and Enlisted men to serve the Battalion in other ways off the Battlefield. We have Basic Combat Training for new recruits so that they may learn commands and how the Battalion as a whole operates. We follow Chain of Command, as well as our own Handbook, and operate on and off the Battlefield as a Civil War Battalion would have. We pride ourselves in keeping all unit activities well-organized.
You are expected to be active, mature and well disciplined. This Battalion is for the purpose of emulating a real Confederate Battalion (Realism) the 1st Battalion of Virginian Regulars in particular. "Sirs, you have no reason to be ashamed of your Confederate dead see to it they have no reason to be ashamed of you." In the spirit of '76 we must hold firm, we must drill efficiently - tirelessly, and we must hold that line! Sons of Erin, the flag of independence has been raised, and the side of the right has called us to action! Honor the call. BUT that day has been THRUST upon us, like it was THRUST upon our ancestors! We stand as the first line of defense, for not only our state of Virginia, but the rest of this newly formed Confederacy. It is not with a light heart that many within the Battalion have left the Union, most of us have been Union men our whole lives, had our neighbors to the North practiced a less bellicose form of persuasion, perhaps this day might have not come. Just as we would not send any of our soldiers to march in other states and tyrannize other people, so will we never allow the armies of others march into our State and tyrannize our people. And having done so, we will meet you in a spirit as determined as the Lincoln Administration has exhibited toward the South." Two days later, the Virginia Legislature held a second vote for secession that passed. His wire in Washington stated, "You have chosen to inaugurate civil war. Men of the Valley, Citizen-Soldiers: On April 15th in the year of our Lord 1861, Simon Cameron, the Secretary of War of the United States sent a telegram to the Virginian Governor, John Letcher, instructing him to raise three regiments of infantry to be sent to assist in suppressin' the southern confederacy.
All able-bodied males, living in the Virginian counties of Richmond and Hanover, whom are of Irish decent are instructed to Enlist immediately for this, our second war of independence. The 1st Virginia Infantry Battalion (<- Click for Steam Group), has been instructed on this day, April 17th, 1861, by the Virginian Legislature and Thomas J. Mustering at Capital Square Grounds, Richmond County, Richmond, VirginiaĬALLING ON ALL SONS OF ERIN IN RICHMOND AND HANOVER COUNTIES TO FULFILL THEIR DUTY Jones' Brigade, Jackson's Division, Second Corps, Army of Northern Virginia