(1.) May 17, 1861, men from the Roanoke area are mustered into the 28th Virginia Infantry in Lynchburg.

(2.) July 21, the 28th saw little action in the war's first battle at Manassas. Most of the rest of the year was spent encamped in Centreville.

(3.) April 17, 1862, the regiment arrives in Yorktown in anticipation of the Union's Peninsula Campaign. Over the next three months, the 28th fights the battles of Seven Pines, Fair Oaks and Gaines' Mill, where it distinguished itself by capturing 13 Yankee cannon.

(4.) Sept. 17, the 28th was involved in skirmishes on the periphery of Antietem.

(5.) March 1863, the 28th went on a foraging expedition from Suffolk into North Carolina, then in late April began the northward march through Richmond and Hagerstown, Md., to Chambersburg, Pa.

(6.) July 3, the regiment arrives at Gettysburg for the Confederates' final assault.