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The 8th Virginia's Generals

11/20/2015

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Brigadier General Charles Scott (shown here in a 19th century uniform) commanded the 8th longer than any other brigade commander. He was later elected Governor of Kentucky and was active alongside many other veterans in the Northwest Indian War.
A dozen different generals commanded the 8th Virginia at various times and levels during its roughly 30-month existence.  The Continental Army grades of general officers were: general (Washington), major general (typically division commanders), and brigadier generals (brigade commanders). The army was organized into departments: Canadian, northern, Highlands, eastern, main, southern, and western. Washington was the de facto commander of the middle (or "main") department for most of the war.

Major General Charles Lee (junior only to Washington in the entire army) was commander of the Southern Department during the 8th Virginia's 1776 service in that theater. At the same time, a large number of 8th Virginia men were detached to the 1st Virginia under the command of Pittsburgh’s Captain William Croghan. While the rest of the regiment went south from Virginia to serve in South Carolina and Georgia under Lee, Croghan’s detachment went north to serve in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania with Washington.
In 1777, the main body of the regiment served in Maj. Gen. Adam Stephen's division at Brandywine and Germantown. A small group of riflemen from the 8th were detached to Daniel Morgan’s Rifle Battalion under the command of Captain James Knox and participated in the Saratoga campaign. A few dozen were detached for a month to William Maxwell's Light Infantry in August and September of 1777 under the command of Captain (later and retroactively Major) William Darke, at Cooch's Bridge and Brandywine. Stephen was replaced by the Marquis de Lafayette late in the year.

In 1778, with its ranks severely depleted by disease, casualties, and expired enlistments, the 8th was folded into the 4th Virginia after the Battle of Monmouth.
 
1776 Southern Campaign (Sullivan’s Island, Savannah, Sunbury):
 
Gen. George Washington, Commander in Chief (not present)
Maj. Gen. Charles Lee, Commander of the Southern District
Brig. Gen. Andrew Lewis (Tidewater service)
Brig. Gen. Robert Howe (Cape Fear, Charleston, Savannah, Sunbury)
 
Captain Croghan Detachment attached to 1st Virginia (White Plains, Trenton, Assunpink Creek, Princeton):
 
Maj. Gen. Joseph Spencer (White Plains)
Maj. Gen. Nathanael Greene (Trenton and Princeton)
Col. George Weedon (temporary brigade at Fort Washington)
Brig. Gen. William Alexander, Earl of Stirling (White Plains through Trenton)
Brig. Gen. Hugh Mercer (Princeton)
 
1777 Philadelphia Campaign (Brandywine, Germantown, Valley Forge)
 
Gen. George Washington, Commander in Chief
Maj. Gen. Benjamin Lincoln (New Jersey rendezvous)
Maj. Gen. Adam Stephen (Brandywine, Germantown)
Maj. Gen. Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette (Valley Forge)
Brig. Gen. Charles Scott
 
Captain Knox Detachment under Colonel Daniel Morgan (Saratoga)
 
Maj. Gen. Horatio Gates
Maj. Gen. Benjamin Lincoln
 
Captain Darke Detachment in Maxwell's Light Infantry (Cooch's Bridge, Brandywine)

Brig. Gen. William Maxwell

1778 Campaign (Valley Forge, Monmouth):
 
Gen. George Washington, Commander in Chief
Maj. Gen. Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette
Maj. Gen. Charles Lee (at Monmouth)
Brig. Gen. Charles Scott
​Col. William Grayson (temporary brigade commander at Monmouth)

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Barbara Couts Evans link
12/14/2019 05:55:25 pm

Hello, Was there a Chrisley Christian Couts, German descendant, age 16ish? He fought with Capt. Bowman as a Militia Cannon Mattross.

Or.. Mosby Childers, of now West Virginia, fifth Reg, private, wounded in the Battle of Brandywine. Fought in the battle of Monmoth and left Valley Forge because of his wound. He took over a year to make it home, where he joined the VA militia

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Barbara Evans link
12/14/2019 06:23:56 pm

Chrisley Couts aka Kautz was also in the Lincoln County Militia (mattross, Capt Bowman) in the Western Division, in Kentucky and Tennessee. They fought with William Rogers Clark, at Fort Jefferson, where they were left to fight off the Indians, until Vincennes. Their bounty land was on the southwestern to center part of Kentucky and the northern section of western to center Tennessee-Robertson County Tennessee and Allen County KY.

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Gabe Neville link
12/21/2019 08:25:59 pm

Neither if those names appear on the rolls.

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Barbara A Evans link
5/27/2021 07:18:53 pm

Thank you! I ran across the page and had to stop and read it.

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