The 59th Virginia (also called 2nd Regiment, Wise Legion) was organized in August 1861. Some of the companies not captured made up the 26th Battalion. Companies D and F returned to their original status as Companies I and K of the. The 59th Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment raised in Virginia's western counties for service in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. Its members were from the counties of Prince William, Warren, Fauquier . The part of the regiment that had been captured and paroled at Roanoke Island was declared exchanged and returned to duty. On 5 Aug 1970 it was amended to reinstate the crest of the Army Reserves and revise the symbolism. The regiment lost fifty-three percent of the 424 at Seven Pines, had 2 killed and 36 wounded during the Seven Days' Battles, and suffered 5 killed and 73 wounded in the Maryland Campaign. The field officers were Colonels Charles F. Henningsen and William B. Tabb, Lieutenant Colonels Frank P. Anderson and Joseph Jones, and Majors John Lawson and Robert G. Mosby. It was amended on 18 Nov 1921 to correct the wording of the blazon. The 58th Infantry Regiment completed its organization in October, 1861. It appears that the last remaining element of the regiment, 1st Battalion, 59th Infantry, was part of the 191st Infantry Brigade until 1968. Much of the regiment was captured and paroled at Roanoke Island, North Carolina, on February 8, 1862. After serving for some time in Georgia and North Carolina, the unit moved to Virginia. At Fredericksburg 6 were killed and 46 wounded, at Gettysburg thirty-five percent of the 281 were disabled, and at The Wilderness and Spotsylvania 87 were lost. It reported 40 casualties at First Manassas and in April, 1862, contained 539 effectives.