I have been actively engaged in documenting Confederate graves since the early 1970's. My brother, working through his father-in-law, Ray Gunn of Charlottesville, Virginia, passed Confederate grave information he found on to the Virginia Regimental Histories Series authors. (Mr. Gunn's name appears in several volumes of the Histories as a contributer.) I began documenting Goochland County Confederate graves and those in adjoining counties for my brother. This data was likewise passed along through Mr. Gunn. Early in my searching career, while my wife and I were working in Hanover County, I found an American Revolutionary soldier's grave. I was enthralled by this find and along with documenting the Confederate graves, I began documenting soldier's graves from America's other wars and soldiers from other states whom we found in Virginia.
Following my brother's death on December 6, 1996 and the death of Mr. Gunn a few years later, I assumed the helm of our research and with the help of my wife, Marie, we have combed many cemeteries over a good portion of Virginia.
Our records cover the period from the American Colonization until the Philippine War in 1902. Our search end with 1902 because when I started searching, some World War 1 veterans were still living and since they were still living I didn't want to have to retrack over areas already checked in order to locate them when they died. Maybe a hundred years from now some youngster will go out searching for us WW1, WW2, Korean, Vietnam and later veterans.
Research work in all files except for the Virginia Confederate files has amounted to only doucmenting those graves we find during our field work excursions. Our Confederate research work is based upon The Virginia Regimental Histories Series published by the H. E. Howard Publishers in Appomattox, Virginia. Our work is not intended to superceed the Regimental Histories only to augment these volumes. (I am providing a link to these volumes on this webpage for anyone who would like more infomation on them.) These books provide the basic names of the individuals who served in each regiment. Our field work is intended to reveal the burial locations of those members whose burial location are not known and reveal additional members who served in the regiments. I have recently learned that when the current printing of the Virginia Regimental Histories are sold out, there will be no future printing of these volumes.
Thus was born VMVR - Virginia Military Veteran Research. In order to provide a place where our data can be made available to all who are searching for relatives, heroes to cherish or are merely surfing the web, this web page has been created. As we document more cemeteries, that data will be added into this site. However, as gas prices increase so will our expense and less work will be accomplished.
If an error is discovered in these files please e-mail me or leave me a note in my guest book so I can correct the error. If you know the burial location of a Virginia soldier's grave and would like to see it documented in this data base please contact me via e-mail granting me permission to use that data. Likewise, if you know the burial location of a soldier's who served in another state's military and who is buried in Virginia, e-mail me and grant me permission to use the data in our data base
Thank you,
Tom Daniels
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