​History

1.      The Regiment shall preserve and portray the experience of the soldiers of the 6th Virginia Infantry 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 organization of the Regiment at Norfolk in May 1861, its service from the Seven Days’ Battles through Appomattox, and the conduct of its officers and men in those engagements shall guide 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.