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Abe Book Exchange has a few at dear prices and Amazon.com at $250. However, a search at World Cat show where you can borrow through Inter Library Loan (LLL)

58th Virginia, by Robert J. Driver, Jr., 1990, 160 pages, photos, maps, roster, cost $ 25.00, H. E. Howard.

http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?sts=t&tn=58th+Virginia&x=71&y=15

http://www.worldcat.org/title/58th-virginia-infantry/oclc/22480152&referer=brief_results

The U. S. Army Military History Institute, Carlisle Barracks, Pa. list the following documents in their unit bibliography

USAMHI
RefBranch
laf Dec 90

58th Virginia Infantry Regiment

Confederate Military History, Extended Edition. Vol. 4: Virginia. Wilmington, NC: Broadfoot, 1987.
1295 p. E484C65.1987v4. Contains numerous, scattered references to Virginia units.

Crute, Joseph H., Jr. Units of the Confederate States Army. Midlothian, VA: Derwent, 1987. Ref.
See p. 136 (1 photocopied page) for a concise summary of the regiment's service.

Driver, Robert J., Jr. 58th Virginia Infantry. Lynchburg, VA: Howard, 1990. 160 p. E581.5.58th.D75.

Scott, W. W., ed. "Two Confederate Items." Richmond, VA: Davis Bottom, l927. E605T68.
Reprinted from Bulletin of the Virginia State Library; includes "diary" of CAPT H.W. Wingfield.

Sifakis, Stewart. Compendium of the Confederate Armies: Virginia. NY: Facts on File, 1992.
pp. 252 54 (2 photocopied pages). E581S53. (Unit organizational history).

Wallace, Lee A., Jr. A Guide to Virginia Military Organizations, 1861 1865. Lynchburg, VA: Howard,
1986. pp. 390 91 (2 photocopied pages). E581.4W35. (Brief unit history).

The following pertinent personal papers are in the Institute's Manuscript Archive:

Greer, George CWTIColl

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George Henry Thomas Greer

Residence Franklin County VA;
Enlisted on 1/5/1863 at Camp Port Royal, VA as a Private.
On 1/5/1863 he mustered into "C" Co. VA 58th Infantry
He was Retired on 1/18/1865
(No further record)
He was listed as:
* Detailed 1/15/1863 (place not stated) (Detailed, clerk to Gnl Early)
* Captured 50 Fed. sol 7/1/1863 Gettysburg, PA
* Wounded 9/14/1863 Somerville Ford, VA (Left arm amputated)
* Absent, wounded 9/15/1863 (place not stated) (Absent until retired)
Other Information:
born 4/20/1845 in Franklin County, VA
died 11/24/1916 in Roanoke, VA
(Postwar Clerk of Court 1864-69 & 1871-97. Member, House
of Delegates 1869-71, Judge)

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Henry Wyatt Wingfield

Residence was not listed;
Enlisted on 9/5/1861 at Patrick Court House, VA as a Private.
On 9/5/1861 he mustered into "H" Co. VA 58th Infantry
(date and method of discharge not given)
He was listed as:
* On rolls 5/15/1862 (place not stated)
* Returned 4/15/1863 (place not stated) (Estimated day)
* Wounded 5/4/1863 Fredericksburg, VA (Wounded in arm)
* Absent, wounded 5/24/1863 (place not stated)
* In command of regt 7/2/1863 (place not stated)
* Absent 8/18/1863 Patrick County, VA (Absent after desertion)
* Returned 9/23/1863 (place not stated)
* Absent, sick 5/9/1864 (place not stated)
* Returned 5/14/1864 (place not stated)
* In command of regt 5/30/1864 (place not stated)
* Returned 7/18/1864 (place not stated)
* In command of regt 7/20/1864 (place not stated)
* Returned 7/27/1864 (place not stated)
* POW 9/19/1864 Winchester, VA
* Confined 9/24/1864 Fort Delaware, DE
* Released 6/17/1865 (place not stated) (No further record)
Promotions:
* 3rd Lieut 10/15/1861
* Capt 5/1/1862
He was described at enlistment as:
5' 10.0", light complexion, blue eyes, dark hair
Other Information:
born 6/26/1829 in Mari Ridge, Hanover Co, VA
died 8/11/1902 in Hanover Co, VA
Buried: Mari Ridge, Hanover Co, VA

(Postwar county surveyor, Hanover Co. Professor Randolph-Macon College.)

Sources used by Historical Data Systems, Inc.:
- The Virginia Regimental Histories Series

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