The 7th Virginia Regiment was authorised on January 11th, 1776, for service with the Continental Army, at Gloucester, Virginia, and was organized under Colonel William Daingerfield between February 7th – May 8th, 1776 at Gloucester Court House.
The riflemen of the 7th Regiment played a prominent role in driving Lord Dunmore and his loyalist forces off Gwynn's Island and out of Virginia in 1776 with Captain Thomas Posey commanding a rifle company of the 7th regiment and chronicling the engagement in his journal.
Joining the Main Army in 1 May 1777, the regiment would see action at the Battles of Brandywine, Germantown, and Monmouth, whilst Posey and his riflemen would head north for the Battles of Freeman's Farm and Bemis Heights under Colonel Daniel Morgan.
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