Grimes Battery of Virginia

Facts About and Photos of the Grimes Battery

Here are some links to many sites with information on the Grimes Battery of Virginia aka Portsmouth Light Artillery Battery.

Virginia: Portsmouth Light Artillery Battery

http://www.americancivilwar101.com/units/csa-va/va-art-batt-portsmouth.html

Captain John H. Thompson Grimes-Thompson Battery – Virginia Light Artillery

http://www.jamescitycavalry.org/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/captainjohnhthompson.pdf

Grimes' Portsmouth (VA) Battery

http://antietam.aotw.org/officers.php?unit_id=763

PORTSMOUTH RIFLES COMPANY G, 9TH VIRGINIA INFANTRY

http://www.angelfire.com/ma4/j_mayo/9va/rifles1.html

Captain Cary (Carey) F Grimes

http://antietam.aotw.org/officers.php?officer_id=809

Lieutenant John H Thompson

http://antietam.aotw.org/officers.php?officer_id=969

Portsmouth Rifle Company Co G Ninth Virginia Regiment

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~vanorfol/cog9.htm

Monument to historic old Portsmouth Artillery

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2001.05.0292%3Achapter%3D1.11

Historical address of the former commander of Grimes Battery.
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2001.05.0292%3Achapter%3D1.12

Excerpt From the Portsmouth (VA) Star, June 8th, 1906.

There was unveiled today in this city a noble shaft, bearing the record of the achievements of one of the most famous military organizations in the history of Virginia, or of the South.

The beautiful monument erected to the memory of the survivors as well as those who fell in the engagements in which the old Portsmouth Artillery Company, now Grimes' Battery, participated, was with appropriate and impressive ceremonies, dedicated to this and succeeding generations of liberty-loving Virginians, this afternoon.

The flags engraved are not the Union and Confederate Flags.

They are the Stars and Bars and Flag of the Army of Northern Virginia.

*Col. William H. Stewart referred to "serving under two flags" in a speech.
The Battle of Craney Island in 1813 under the Union Flag and Several Battles under

the Confederate Flag, 1861-65. Maybe they couldn't engrave all the stripes (?)

It bears resemblance to the First National.

The monument now resides in the Portsmouth City Park.

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Civil War Librarian (Blog)

http://civilwarlibrarian.blogspot.com/

Portsmouth and it's environs had sent 1400 men into Confederate service. Approximately 225 died in that service and countless were scarred for life by their wounds. In spite of their situation, these men would rise again to become the leaders of their community and take their rightful place in Portsmouth society.