​History

1.      The Regiment shall preserve and portray the experience of the soldiers of the Army of Northern Virginia with fidelity, sobriety, and due regard for the established historical record.

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2.      Officers and men will rely upon contemporary sources, official reports, letters, drill manuals, period newspapers, and battlefield accounts in forming their instruction and representation.

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3.      The Army of Northern Virginia traces its roots to the Confederate Army of the Potomac, formed from Confederate units defending northeastern Virginia beginning in the spring of 1861, with General P.G.T. Beauregard assuming command in late May of that year.

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​         Following the First Battle of Bull Run, the Army of the Shenandoah merged into it under General Joseph E. Johnston.

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        The army was officially redesignated the Army of Northern Virginia on March 14, 1862, and General Robert E. Lee assumed command on June 1, 1862, leading it as the primary Confederate force in the Eastern Theater until his surrender at Appomattox Court House in April 1865.

 

        This history shall guide and inform all portrayals.

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4.      No representation shall distort events for spectacle, sentiment, or present convenience. The past will be presented as it was lived, in hardship, in duty, in privation, and in resolve.

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5.      The Regiment acknowledges that memory carries weight; therefore history shall be handled with care, neither embellished nor diminished.

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6.      Instruction offered to the public shall distinguish between documented fact and reasonable historical inference, so that truth may be preserved without confusion.