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IVR Camp of Instruction, Pamplin Park, Dinwiddie County, Virginia, February 2006

Schools of the soldier and the battalion held on the 1865 battlefield of the Petersburg break-through

In February, members of the Independent Volunteer Rifles (IVR) attended our annual Camp of Instruction (COI) with our sister units of our campaigner battalion comprised of the 15th and 23rd Virginia Infantry Regiments, The Petersburg City Guard, The Doggery Boys Mess, and The Princess Anne Greys (Lee's Sharpshooters). COI gives our IVR units the opportunity to practice drill and maneuver at the battalion level with a large number of troops, in preparation of our upcoming IVR events. The weekend includes instruction of officers and NCO's in company and regimental level movements. New recruits and forgetful veterans are given the opportunity to develop their drilling skills at the school of the soldier. COI also gives the boys of the IVR the opportunity to build camaraderie. Our special thanks to Pamplin Historical Park and Museum of the Civil War Soldier in Dinwiddie County for allowing the IVR to use their winter quarters facility. This outstanding facility includes several winter huts for enlisted, NCO, and officer personnel which will be used for the Park's Civil War Adventure Camp for kids. This park is truly the finest experience of Civil War life in the nation.

Left - The Princess Anne Greys skirmish below the wartime Hart House. Right - Second platoon, First Company in front of the officer's quarters.

Captain Regan, Lieutenant Delgregg, and Captain Hendricks warm at the fire during a cold COI.

In defense of the Stone Wall, Fredericksburg, Virginia December 2005

The IVR forms on Marye's Heights as Co. A 2nd South Carolina Infantry Regiment

In the Sunken Road.

Payne's Farm, Orange County, Virginia November 2005

A campaigner tactical held on the 1863 battlefield of Payne's Farm

Burkittsville, Maryland October 2005

A campaigner tactical held on the 1862 battlefield of South Mountain

McDowell, Highland County, Virginia May 2005

A campaigner event held on the 1862 battlefield of McDowell

Congratulations to Jack Dixon (young bugler in center) of the 3rd Virginia who attended the Don Hubbard Eastern Field Music School at Ft. Delaware and won the Don Hubbard award.

Funeral Parade April 2005

A contingent of the IVR participates in a parade down Monument Avenue to Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond in April 2005. Four soldiers believed to be from North Carolina and whose remains were unearthed on the Gaines Mill Battlefield were re-interred with full military honors.

Camp of Instruction February 2005

IVR Camp of Instruction 2005 at Pamplin Park, Dinwiddie County, Virginia

City Point 2004

IVR Captives at City Point

McDowell May 2003

The IVR preparing to retake the town of McDowell

Camp of Instruction 2003