Michael Cecere

Captain Thomas Posey and the 7th Virginia Regiment Michael Cecere

The 7th Virginia Regiment was on of six additional battalions raised in the colony in early 1776. It played a prominent role in driving Lord Dunmore and his loyalist forces off of Gwynn?s Island and out of Virginia. Captain Thomas Posey commanded a rifle company in the 7th regiment and chronicled the engagement in his journal. It is through Posey?s experience - detached with his rifle company to Daniel Morgan?s rifle corps - that we see the 7th Virginia?s contribution at Saratoga, Whitemarsh, Valley Forge and the New York frontier.