Evolution of Thurmond's Battalion
Independent Scouts - Company A
Fayette Rangers- Captain William Tyree- May 1861 (June 6 elected captain of Mountain Cove Guards)
Fayette Rangers- Captain Philip Thurmond - after June 6, 1861
Kanawha Scouts- Captain John Walker Amick, Lt. Bumgarner
Gen. Wise- Independent Scouts- James A. Amick, Chief of Scouts for Gen. R.E. Lee
John T. Amick, later John J. Halstead, & Madison Walker - Nicholas County
Samuel Tyree, Ranger Company-1863
son of Capt. Francis Tyree, Police District #4, (arrested)
Mountain Cove Guard, Capt. W. Tyree, Fayette, Co.
Joseph McClung, 79th Militia- Anthony Creek (?), Greenbrier County
Floyd's Third Regiment, Finney's Battalion- Floyd's Scouts
Lt. Col. William W. Finney, Gauley District, Captain William D. Hefner
Maj. D.S. Hounshell & Lt. Col. James Massie- 3rd Regiment not muster (23 Bn. & 26 Bn)
Niter District Number 4- General Alfred Ward Grayson Davis, Major David S. Hounshell
Partisan Rangers- Captain Philip Thurmond - May 2, 1862 (Sr. captain)
Captain William Thurmond- September 19, 1862
Brief Affiliations: Independent Scouts for General Echols- 1862
54th Viginia Infantry- Col. R.C. Trigg (Trigg's Bn Partisan Rangers, later 25th Va. Cav.)
Co. L- Z. T. Morris' Independent Battalion Sept. 19, 1862,
Thurmond's Bn, assigned with 23rd Bttn to form 65th Inf. Regt, 5/27/63, not mustered
McClausland Cavalry -Thurmonds Bn. re-assigned, June 1863
Samuel Tyree Partisan Ranger Compnay- 1863
44th Virginia Cav. Bn- P. Thurmond, W.D. Thurmond, Samuel Tyree, 10/29/63
Morris' Independent Battalion & Thurmond's Battalion Virginia Cavalry
Partisan Rangers - Amick's Partisan Ranger Company- Capt. John W. Amick- April 20, 1864
Hounshell's Battalion Virginia Cavalry- Maj. David Hounshell, late 1862 / early 1863 to Jan. 1865
then Capt. Z. T. Morris, then Capt. W. Thurmond.
Thurmond's Battalion
William Thurmond's Company- Capt. W. Thurmond
Company B- Capt. John D, Thurmond
Capt. W.D. Huffman's Company (former Philip Thurmond Co., Fayette Rangers)
Capt. Robert. B. Gwinn's Company (from P. Thurmond Co.)
Capt. P.W. Snider's Company
Capt. C. A. Hawvel's Company
Amick's Independent Battalion
Capt. J.W. Amick
Capt. James M Bugarner's Company
Company A- Capt. John James Halstead
Company C- Capt. Joseph A. McClung
Capt. Samuel Tyree's Company
At times, companies of Thurmond's Bn. brigaded with the 34th Virginia Cavalry Bn, Lt. Col. Vincent Witcher. At parole April 26-27 1865 at Lewisburg, 150 men of Company A were paroled. This would account for companies - Amick, Halstead, McClung, Tyree, Baugamer, of the Independent Battalion. Independent Battalion formed before February, 1865