My personal thanks goes out to everyone who submitted the information within these pages, and for making this website a success. I also want to extend a heart felt thanks to Terry Lowry for allowing us to use his material and putting it's content up online. I'd like to especially thank my wife who has helped me transcribed some of the material.

As you can tell, we have a long way to go to fill in the gaps. Our main objective is to raise awareness and educate the public about the historical significance these men took part in shaping America as we know it today. Unlike a traditional history book, which forges a set path through time, hyper-linking allows readers to follow any path through history they chose providing our viewers a single internet source to learn the life history of each of the soldiers that served in the ranks of the 22nd Virginia Infantry Regiment, from who they were and what they did before the war, their actions during the war, and their lives after the war.

It goes without saying that we spend several hours a week, trying to dig up new information about the 22nd Virginia Infantry. As a re-enacting unit, we strive to make the soldiers of the 22nd Virginia Infantry come to life. So if you were to walk into our camp, you will feel as if its the 1860's. We strive to do everything as accurate as possible.

If you would like to contribute any material no matter the size of the story, (prewar, war, or postwar) for our archives - such as memoirs, photographs, and letters on the members of the 22nd Virginia, please contact us at 22ndvainfantry@pa.net. If any way possible, if you are sending large files via the internet, please email me first. My internet provider sometimes doesn't download large files and in that case we prefer if you send us a copy of the content to us.

Once the articles or photos are online, we give credit where credit is due. For example, if you send us a photo, you first name initial (J) along with your last name (Doe) will be as who submitted the content. We do this because some people are uncomfortable with their whole name spelled out on the internet. Even when you email us asking about an ancestor, we do the same thing. So far it has kept everyone happy. If an article comes from a source such as the West Virginia State Archives we will list them as the main source with the volume number and year, incase you want to obtain a copy you can get online and contact them directly.

As always, if you have any questions or comments that could help us expand or improve our archives on the knowledge of the 22nd Virginia Infantry, please send it to us. As always, thank you for your help.

Sincerely,

Lt. Colonel John A. Miller; 22nd Virginia Infantry Regiment

Civil War Historian of the Emmitsburg Historical Society