2nd Regiment may refer to:
Active units
British Army
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2nd Royal Tank Regiment
The 2nd Royal Tank Regiment (2 RTR) was an armoured regiment of the British Army. It was part of the Royal Tank Regiment, itself part of the Royal Armoured Corps and the 1st Mechanized Brigade.
History
Founded as B Battalion, Tank Corps in 1917 ...
United States
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2nd Aviation Regiment (United States)
The 2nd Aviation Regiment is an aviation regiment of the U.S. Army.
History
The regiment was originally constituted on 24 May 1957 in the Regular Army as the 2nd Aviation Company, part of the 2nd Infantry Division. It was activated on 20 June ...
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2nd Air Defense Artillery Regiment
The 2nd Air Defense Artillery Regiment is an air defense artillery regiment of the United States Army, first formed in 1821 as a field artillery unit.
Battery A-2nd ADAR THAAD (Battery A, 2nd Air Defense Artillery Regiment, Terminal High Altitu ...
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2nd Cavalry Regiment (United States)
The 2nd Cavalry Regiment, also known as the Second Dragoons, is an active Stryker infantry and cavalry regiment of the United States Army. The Second Cavalry Regiment is a unit of the United States Army Europe and Africa, with its garrison a ...
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2nd Marine Regiment (United States)
The 2nd Marine Regiment is an infantry regiment of the United States Marine Corps. They are based at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina and fall under the command of the 2nd Marine Division and the II Marine Expeditionary Force.
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2nd Infantry Regiment (United States)
The 2nd Infantry Regiment is an infantry regiment in the United States Army that has served for more than two hundred years. It was constituted on 12 April 1808 as the 6th Infantry and consolidated with 4 other regiments in 1815 to form the pre ...
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2nd Field Artillery Regiment (United States)
The 2nd Field Artillery Regiment is a field artillery regiment in the United States Army. Currently a parent regiment under the U.S. Army Regimental System
The United States Army Regimental System (USARS) is an organizational and classific ...
Australian Army
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2nd Cavalry Regiment (Australia) - armoured reconnaissance unit
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2nd/14th Light Horse Regiment
The 2nd/14th Light Horse Regiment (Queensland Mounted Infantry) is a regiment of the Australian Army and forms part of the Royal Australian Armoured Corps. The regiment is an Australian Light Horse unit, and has been widely romanticised and pop ...
- armoured reconnaissance unit
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2nd/10th Medium Regiment, Royal Australian Artillery
French Army
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2nd Foreign Engineer Regiment
The 2nd Foreign Engineer Regiment () is one of two combat engineer regiments of the Foreign Legion in the French Army. Stationed, since its creation in 1999, on the former site of the French Strategic Nuclear Missiles at Saint Christol, Vauclu ...
- French Foreign Legion Combat engineering unit
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2nd Foreign Parachute Regiment
The 2nd Foreign Parachute Regiment () is the only airborne regiment of the Foreign Legion in the French Army. It is one of the four infantry regiments of the 11th Parachute Brigade and part of the spearhead of the French rapid reaction force.
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- French Foreign Legion airborne commando unit
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2nd Marine Infantry Parachute Regiment - airborne unit
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2nd Foreign Infantry Regiment
The 2nd Foreign Infantry Regiment () is an infantry regiment of the Foreign Legion in the French Army. The regiment is one of two mechanized infantry regiments of the 6th Light Armoured Brigade.
Since the regiment's arrival from Bonifacio in ...
- French Foreign Legion unit
Belgian Army
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2nd/4th Regiment Mounted Rifles - armoured reconnaissance unit
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2nd/4th Lancers Regiment - tank unit
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2nd Field Artillery Regiment/Field Artillery Battery ParaCommando
Italian Army
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2nd Alpini Regiment
The 2nd Alpini Regiment () is a mountain warfare regiment of the Italian Army based in Cuneo in Piedmont. The regiment belongs to the Italian Army's Alpini infantry speciality and is assigned to the Alpine Brigade "Taurinense". On 1 November 188 ...
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2nd Alpine Signal Regiment
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2nd Alpine Engineer Regiment
The 2nd Engineer Regiment () is a military engineering regiment of the Italian Army based in Trento in Trentino. The regiment was formed in 1860 and is currently the oldest active engineer regiment of the Italian Army. Since 1954, the unit has b ...
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2nd Alpine Artillery Regiment
Canadian Army
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2nd Field Regiment, Royal Canadian Artillery
The 2nd Field Artillery Regiment, RCA () is a Royal Canadian Artillery reserve regiment. It is located in Montreal and shares its headquarters with The Royal Canadian Hussars (Montreal) at the Côte-des-Neiges Armory.
Although there had been t ...
Portuguese Army
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2nd Lancers Regiment - Portuguese army military police unit
Former units
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2nd Infantry Regiment (Lithuania)
2nd Infantry Regiment later known as the 2nd Infantry Regiment of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Algirdas () was a Lithuanian Army infantry regiment that saw combat in the Lithuanian Wars of Independence. It existed from 1918 to 1940. The current Li ...
- Lithuanian interwar infantry regiment
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2nd Infantry Regiment (South Korea)
The 6th Infantry Division () is a military formation of the Republic of Korea Army.
Structure
*Headquarters:
**Headquarters Company
**DMZ Patrol Company
**Air Defense Company
**Anti-Tank Company
**Armor Battalion
**Signal Battalion
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- Korean War unit
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2nd Guards Field Artillery
The 2nd Guards Field Artillery Regiment (German: 2. Garde-Feldartillerie-Regiment) was an artillery unit in the Prussian Army prior to and during the First World War
World War I or the First World War (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918), ...
- Imperial German Army World War I unit
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2/6th Cavalry Commando Regiment (Australia)
The 2/6th Cavalry Commando Regiment was a cavalry regiment of the Australian Army that served during the Second World War and was later converted into a Australian commandos, commando unit. Formed at Ingleburn, New South Wales, in November 1939, ...
- World War II unit
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2nd Regiment of Light Cavalry Lancers of the Imperial Guard (the "Red Lancers" - a Napoleonic French unit, originally raised as the Guard Hussars of the
Kingdom of Holland
The Kingdom of Holland ( (contemporary), (modern); ) was the successor state of the Batavian Republic. It was created by Napoleon Bonaparte in March 1806 in order to strengthen control over the Netherlands by replacing the republican governmen ...
Polish Army
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2nd Armoured Regiment (Poland)
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- Polish army World War II unit
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2nd Legions' Infantry Regiment
The 2nd Legions' Infantry Regiment (, 2ppLeg) was a Polish military unit active between 1914 and 1944. Initially a part of the Polish Legions in World War I, after the war it was incorporated into the Polish Army. Disbanded after the Invasion of ...
British Army
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2nd East Anglian Regiment
The 2nd East Anglian Regiment (Duchess of Gloucester's Own Royal Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire) was a short-lived infantry regiment of the British Army from 1960 to 1964. Its lineage is continued by the Royal Anglian Regiment.
History
As a res ...
- Short lived British army unit
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64th (2nd Staffordshire) Regiment of Foot
The 64th (2nd Staffordshire) Regiment of Foot was an infantry regiment of the British Army. The regiment was created as the 2nd Battalion, 11th Regiment of Foot in 1756, redesignated as the 64th Regiment of Foot in 1758, and took a county titl ...
- British army
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2nd Tangier Regiment - British Army
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65th (2nd Yorkshire, North Riding) Regiment of Foot
The 65th (2nd Yorkshire, North Riding) Regiment of Foot was an infantry regiment of the British Army, raised in 1756 as the 2nd Battalion, Suffolk Regiment, 12th Regiment of Foot. Under the Childers Reforms it amalgamated with the 84th (York and L ...
- British army
British Indian Army
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2nd Punjab Regiment
The 2nd Punjab Regiment was a British Indian Army regiment from 1922 to the partition of India in 1947.
The regiment was formed by the amalgamation of other regiments:
*1st Battalion, from the 67th Punjabis, formerly the 7th Regiment of Madras N ...
- British Indian army unit
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2nd Queen Victoria's Own Rajput Light Infantry
The 2nd Queen Victoria's Own Rajput Light Infantry, commonly shortened to 2nd Rajputs, was a regiment of the British Indian Army. Raised in 1798, it was amalgamated with five other Rajput regiments in 1922.
History
The British East India Company ...
- British Indian army
Yugoslavia
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2nd Yugoslav Assault Regiment - Yugoslav Air Force World War II unit
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2nd Training Aviation Regiment - Yugoslav Air Force post-World War II unit
Greek Army
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2nd Serres Regiment, Greek army
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2/21 Cretan Regiment, Greek army
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2/39 Evzone Regiment, Greek army
American Civil War units
Union Army
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2nd United States Infantry Regiment (Civil War)
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2nd United States Volunteer Sharpshooter Regiment
The 2nd United States Sharpshooters was a sharpshooter regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. From 1861 to January 1863 they were members of the " First Iron Brigade" also known as the "Iron Brigade of the East".
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2nd Alabama Volunteer Infantry Regiment (African Descent)
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2nd Regiment Illinois Volunteer Cavalry
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2nd Regiment Indiana Cavalry
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2nd Iowa Regiment
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2nd Regiment Iowa Volunteer Cavalry
The 2nd Iowa Cavalry Regiment was a cavalry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
Service
The 2nd Iowa Cavalry was recruited in the following counties and organized at Davenport, Iowa they mustered in at Camp Joe H ...
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2nd Regiment Kansas Volunteer Infantry (African Descent)
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2nd Kentucky Infantry Regiment
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2nd Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment
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2nd Maryland Infantry Regiment, several units
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2nd Regiment of Cavalry, Massachusetts Volunteers
The 2nd Massachusetts Volunteer Cavalry Regiment was a regiment of cavalry troops in the Union army during the American Civil War. It consisted primarily of men from the states of California and Massachusetts, and served in the Eastern Theater, ...
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2nd Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Heavy Artillery
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2nd Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry
The 2nd Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Major George H. Gordon (later Brigadier General), a West Point graduate and veteran of the Mexican–American War, orga ...
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2nd Michigan Volunteer Cavalry Regiment
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2nd Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment
The 2nd Michigan Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
Service
The 2nd Michigan Infantry was organized by Francis William Kellogg and others at Fort Wayne in Detroit, Michigan. ...
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2nd Minnesota Volunteer Cavalry Regiment
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2nd Nebraska Cavalry
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2nd New Hampshire Volunteer Regiment
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2nd New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment
The 2nd New York Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It is also known as the Troy Regiment.
Organization
The 2nd New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment was recruited and organized ...
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2nd Ohio Infantry
The 2nd Ohio Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
Three-months regiment
With the outbreak of the Civil War in the spring of 1861, President Abraham Lincoln called for volunteers from each ...
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2nd Regiment South Carolina Volunteer Infantry (African Descent)
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2nd West Virginia Veteran Volunteer Infantry Regiment
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2nd West Virginia Volunteer Cavalry Regiment
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2nd West Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment
The 2nd West Virginia Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Many of its soldiers were actually from Pennsylvania. The regiment fought in Virginia and West Virginia. On May 23, 18 ...
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2nd Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment
The 2nd Wisconsin Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It spent most of the war as a member of the famous Iron Brigade of the Army of the Potomac. It suffered the largest numbe ...
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2nd Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Cavalry
The 2nd Wisconsin Cavalry Regiment was a volunteer cavalry regiment that served in the Union Army in the western theater of the American Civil War.
Service
The 2nd Wisconsin Cavalry was organized at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, between December ...
Confederate Army
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2nd Regiment Alabama Volunteer Cavalry (Confederate)
The 2nd Alabama Cavalry Regiment was a cavalry formation of the Confederate States Army in the Western Theater of the American Civil War. It was commanded by Colonel F. Winston Hunter from its organization in 1862 until 1863 when he was court-m ...
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2nd Kentucky Infantry
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2nd Infantry (2nd Palmetto Regiment)
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2nd Maryland Infantry Regiment
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2nd Virginia Infantry
The 2nd Virginia Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment raised in today's western Virginia and what became West Virginia during the American Civil War for service in the Confederate States Army. It would combine with the 4th, 5th, 27th, an ...
American Revolutionary War units
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2nd Canadian Regiment
The 2nd Canadian Regiment (1776–1783), also known as Congress's Own or Hazen's Regiment, was an Extra Continental regiment of the American Patriots' Continental Army, consisting primarily of volunteers from the Province of Quebec. It w ...
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2nd Connecticut Regiment
The 2nd Connecticut Regiment was a regiment in the Continental Army during the American Revolution. It is not to be confused with the 2nd Connecticut Volunteer Infantry Regiment which served during the American Civil War.
History
The 2nd Conn ...
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2nd Georgia Regiment
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2nd Maryland Regiment
The 2nd Maryland Regiment origins were authorized on 14 January 1776 in the Maryland State Troops as seven independent companies. From 7 to 14 March 1776 the companies were organized from various counties from the eastern region of the colo ...
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2nd Massachusetts Regiment
The 2nd Massachusetts Regiment, also known as Thomas' Regiment and Bailey's Regiment, was a unit of the Massachusetts Line in the 1777 establishment of the Continental Army. It was a successor to a number of Massachusetts provincial regiments f ...
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2nd New Hampshire Regiment
The 2nd New Hampshire Regiment was formed in early May 1775, as the second of three Continental Army regiments raised by the state of New Hampshire during the American Revolutionary War. Its first commander was Colonel Enoch Poor, with Joseph ...
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2nd New Jersey Regiment
The 2nd New Jersey Regiment was raised, on 9 October 1775, at Trenton, New Jersey, for service with the Continental Army under the command of Colonel William Maxwell. The regiment would see action at the Battle of Trois-Rivières, Battle of Va ...
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2nd New York Regiment
The 2nd New York Regiment was authorized on May 25, 1775, and formed at Albany from June 28 to August 4 for service with the Continental Army under the command of Colonel Goose Van Schaick. The enlistments of the first establishment ended on Dec ...
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2nd North Carolina Regiment
The 2nd North Carolina Regiment was an American infantry unit that was raised for the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. In 1776 the regiment helped defend Charleston, South Carolina. Ordered to join George Washington's main ...
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2nd Pennsylvania Regiment
The 2nd Pennsylvania Regiment, formed with lauded veterans from the 1st Pennsylvania Battalion, was raised in December 1776. The 1st Pennsylvania Battalion was raised in October 1775, under the command of Colonel John Bull for service with the Co ...
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2nd Rhode Island Regiment
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2nd South Carolina Regiment
The 2nd South Carolina Regiment was raised on June 6, 1775, at Charleston, South Carolina, for service with the Continental Army.
History
At organization the regiment consisted of 10 companies from eastern South Carolina and was part of the So ...
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2nd Virginia Regiment
The 2d Virginia Regiment (the spelling most commonly used in period references) was authorized by the Virginia Convention, July 17, 1775, as a force of regular troops for the Commonwealth's defense. It consisted of seven companies, 476 privates ...
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2nd Albany County Militia Regiment
The 2nd Albany County Militia Regiment was the local militia unit for Schenectady, New York, during the American Revolutionary War under the command of Colonel Abraham Wemple. The regiment saw action with the Continental Army in 1777 at the Ba ...
Spanish–American War units
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2nd Oregon Volunteer Infantry Regiment
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2nd Virginia Volunteer Infantry (1898)
Others
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Nevers' 2nd Regiment Band
See also
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Second Division (disambiguation)
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