{"id":98,"date":"2007-02-26T17:07:59","date_gmt":"2007-02-26T17:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lotsastuff.info\/sroots\/2007\/02\/26\/2d-virginia\/"},"modified":"2024-03-04T01:04:43","modified_gmt":"2024-03-04T01:04:43","slug":"2d-virginia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lotsastuff.info\/sroots\/2007\/02\/26\/2d-virginia\/","title":{"rendered":"2d Virginia Regiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-top-right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lotsastuff.info\/sroots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98?print=pdf\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-pdf\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lotsastuff.info\/sroots\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/pdf.png\" alt=\"image_pdf\" title=\"View PDF\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/lotsastuff.info\/sroots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98?print=print\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lotsastuff.info\/sroots\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><\/a><\/div><h3>LINEAGE<\/h3>\n[Wright, Continental Army, pp. 283-285]\n<p>Authorized 21 August 1775 in the Virginia State Troops as the 2d Virginia Regiment<\/p>\n<p>Organized 21 October 1775 at Williamsburg to consist of seven companies<\/p>\n<p>Adopted 1 November 1775 into the Continental Army<\/p>\n<p>Reorganized 11 January 1776 to consist of ten companies<\/p>\n<p>Assigned 27 February 1776 to the Southern Department<\/p>\n<p>Relieved 27 December 1776 from the Southern Department and assigned to the Main Army<\/p>\n<p>Assigned 22 May 1777 to the 2d Virginia Brigade, an element of the Main Army<\/p>\n<p>Reorganized 1 November 1777 to consist of eight companies<\/p>\n<p>Consolidated 12 May 1779 with the 6th Virginia Regiment [see 6th Virginia Regiment] and consolidated unit designated as the 2d Virginia Regiment, to consist of nine companies<\/p>\n<p>Relieved 4 December 1779 from assignment to the 1st Virginia Brigade and assigned to the Southern Department<\/p>\n<p>Captured 12 May 1780 by the <em>British Army<\/em> at Charleston, South Carolina<\/p>\n<p>Disbanded 15 November 1783<\/p>\n<h3>ENGAGEMENTS<\/h3>\n[Wright, Continental Army, p. 285]\n<p>Chesapeake Bay<\/p>\n<p>Northern New Jersey<\/p>\n<p>Defense of Philadelphia<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia-Monmouth<\/p>\n<p>Charleston 1780<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LINEAGE [Wright, Continental Army, pp. 283-285] Authorized 21 August 1775 in the Virginia State Troops as the 2d Virginia Regiment Organized 21 October 1775 at Williamsburg to consist of seven companies Adopted 1 November 1775 into the Continental Army Reorganized 11 January 1776 to consist of ten companies Assigned 27 February 1776 to the Southern&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":300,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-military","category-revolutionary-war","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotsastuff.info\/sroots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotsastuff.info\/sroots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotsastuff.info\/sroots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotsastuff.info\/sroots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotsastuff.info\/sroots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lotsastuff.info\/sroots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301,"href":"https:\/\/lotsastuff.info\/sroots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions\/301"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotsastuff.info\/sroots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotsastuff.info\/sroots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotsastuff.info\/sroots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotsastuff.info\/sroots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}