FIELD OFFICERS

Lt. Col. Thomas Gaskins

Maj. John Poulson

COMPANIES

Capt. Benjamin Harris's Company

• Sgt. Jesse Beck, Enlisted March 1 1781 at Charlottesville, Capt. Benjamin Harris' Coy, Brother reported him as wearing "a sword and the uniform of a sergeant" (pension application)
• Pvt. William Breedlove, Enlisted March 1781 in Albemarle County, Capt. Benj. Harris' (pension application)
• Pvt. Jesse Lewis, Enlisted March 1781 in Albemarle County, Capt. Benjamin Harris' Coy
• Pvt. Joseph Goodman, Enlisted Spring 1781, Capt. Benjamin Harris's Coy (pension application)

• Pvt. Charles Cooke, Enlisted March 1781 at Charlottesville, John Harris's Coy (pension application)
• Pvt. Blan Shiflet, Drafted late Spring 1781, Capt. John Harris' Coy, Discharged October 1781 (pension application)
• Pvt. Richard Snow, Albemarle County, Capt. John Harris' Coy

• Lt. Robert or Thomas Craddock
• Ensign Bedinger

• Pvt. William Atkinson, Enlisted in Cumberland County, Kirkpatrick's Coy (pension application)
• Pvt. Elias Barbee, Enlisted in '81 as a private in Capt. A. Kirkpatrick's Co., Colonel Gaskin's Virg. Regiment.  He marched from Culpeper to Fredericksburg to the Potomac River to Albemarle Co., across Stanton River then to James River near Jamestown and was at the siege of Yorktown. Discharged at Cumberland's old Courthouse. (Provided by Moovee2k@aol.com)
• Pvt. John Bazzill, Enlisted April 1781 at Winchester, Kirkpatrick's Coy (pension application)
• Pvt. Joseph Boxwell, Enlisted Spring of 1781 at Winchester, Kirkpatrick's Coy (pension application)
• Pvt. Robert Boxwell, Enlisted 1781 in Frederick County, Kirkpatrick's Coy (pension application)
• Pvt. John Brent, Enlisted April 2 1781, Kirkpatrick's Coy, "some part of the time he acted as an artificer, he being a blacksmith" (pension application)
• Pvt. Reuben Brizendine, Enlisted March 22 1781, Kirkpatrick's Coy, Lt. Robert Craddock from Amelia, (pension application)
• Pvt. David Buffington, Substituted for William or Benjamin Ely, Kirkpatrick's Coy. Originator of the story about Steuben and the black snakes, or "bush eels" (pension application)
• Pvt. Francis Bundy, Enlisted April 1780 [1781] in Caroline County, Kirkpatrick's Coy (pension application)
• Pvt. Thomas Carter, Enlisted 1780, Kirkpatrick's Co'y (pension application)
• Pvt. Henry W. Davis, Enlisted 1779 [?], Kirkpatrick's Coy (pension application)
• Pvt. John Ducker, Enlisted April 7 1781 at Winchester, Capt. Kirkpatrick's Coy, Lt. Thomas Craddock, Ensign Bedinger (pension application)
• Pvt. William Foxworthy, Drafted in March 1781, Kirkpatrick's Coy (pension application)
• Pvt. Lewis Goodin, Enlisted 1780, Kirkpatrick's Coy (pension application)
• Pvt. James Grant, Hanged for malicious wounding of Capt. Kirkpatrick (see regimental history).

Pvt. Nicholas Blankenbaker, Enlisted Mark 1781 at Culpeper, Was sick and left at hospital in Charlottesville, rejoined the battalion under Capt. Lovely at Yorktown. (pension application)

• Pvt. Elijah Abbot, Enlisted in 1781 in Stafford County, Martin's Coy, (pension application)
• Pvt. Thomas Douglass, Enlisted Spring 1781, Capt. Thomas Martin's Coy (pension application)
• Pvt. William Harris, Capt. Thomas Martin's Coy
• Pvt. William Spurling, Capt. Thomas Martin's Coy

UNCONFIRMED COMPANIES

Capt. Lamb's Company

• Only mentioned in one pension application so far (see below)
• Pvt. John Foster, Enlisted May or June 1781, Capt. Lamb's Coy (pension application)

• Unable to find a "Captain" Andrew Lewis. There was a Lt. Andrew Lewis who served in the Virginia Continental Line and may be one of the lieutenants that supposedly commanded companies in the battalion. His name was listed without documentation in Sanchez-Saavedra's book, A Guide to Virginia Military Organizations in the American Revolution.
• Another Andrew Lewis was General Lewis, of Dunmore's War fame. It is highly unlikely that he was a captain by the end of the war.

• Only mentioned in one pension application so far (see below)
• Pvt. John Davis, Enlisted Winter 1780-81 in Botetourt County, Capt. Balmes Smith's Coy, Gun barrel exploded when a shell went off next to him while on sentry duty at Yorktown. (pension application)

• Warman probably became attached to this unit at its stay at Cumberland Old Court House in the winter of 1781-1782, as his name only appears in pension applications as either the discharger of the individual or as a participant in the southern activities under Posey.

• Only mentioned in one pension application so far(see below)
• Pvt. Benjamin Fisher, Enlisted March 1781 at Tappahanock, Capt. Woodson's Coy. Transferred to a dragoon unit being sent south to William Washington, but became a "bowman" of von Steuben first and remained with Steuben until the end of the war. (pension application)

• Only mentioned in one pension application so far (see below)
• Pvt. John France, Enlisted 1781 in Richmond County, Capt. Wroe's Coy (pension application)

• As mentioned in Sanchez-Saavedra's book, A Guide to Virginia Military Organizations in the American Revolution.

RANK & FILE (with unkown companies)
 

• Pvt. Neilly Bybee, Fluvanna County (pension application)
• Pvt. William Candler, Bedford County, 30yo
• Pvt. William Davis (pension application)
• Pvt. William Gaines (pension application)

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