Unit

Confederate Regiment

58th Virginia Infantry

Commanding Officer:
Capt. H. W. Wingfield

Maps Showing this Unit:
   Detail Map #3: Mansfield's XII Corps Attacks Into the Cornfield
   Detail Map #4: Greene's High-Water Mark in the West Woods
   Detail Map #5: Sedgwick is Flanked in the West Woods

Battlefield Tablets for this Unit:
   Tablet #314: Jackson's Command - 15 Sep, 4 PM to 16 Sep, 10 PM
   Tablet #326: Ewell's Division, Jackson's Command - 15 Sep, 6 PM to 16 Sep, 10 PM
   Tablet #378: Early's Brigade, Ewell's Division - 16 Sep, 8 PM to 17 Sep, 10 AM
   Tablet #315: Jackson's Command - 17 Sep, 5 AM to 17 Sep, 10 AM
   Tablet #379: Early's Brigade, Ewell's Division - 17 Sep, 6 AM to 18 Sep, 9 PM

This Regiment's Chain of Command:
  Army - Army of Northern Virginia
  Corps - Jackson's Command
  Division - Ewell's Division
  Brigade - Early's Brigade

In the Antietam Campaign:
Colonel Letcher was absent sick before the Regiment went on campaign in Maryland, and Major Kasey, then in command, left due to illness as they reached Frederick. Captain Wingfield was left in command as senior officer present, and led them in action at Harpers Ferry (12-15 September) and Sharpsburg (16 and 17 September).1

We have 3 individuals in the AotW database for this unit:

Co.	Rank	Name
H	Capt	Wingfield, Henry Wyatt
F&S	Col	Goode, Edmund
F&S	Col	Letcher, Samuel Houston

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Notes

1 Driver, Robert J. Jr., 58th Virginia Infantry, Lynchburg (Va): H. E. Howard, Inc., 1990, pp. 34-36 [AotW citation 241]

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