"The 29th Virginia was authorized in November, 1861, and was to contain seven companies under Colonel A.C. Moore and three companies at Pound Gap. However, this organization never took place. Moore's five companies from Abingdon and companies raised in the spring of 1862 evidently made up the nine-company regiment. The men were recruited from the counties of Fayette, Raleigh, Mercer, Wise, Russell, Tazewell, Wythe, and Carroll."
the wiki article is mostly correct, but there are a lot of inaccuracies and omissions.
For instance, the 29th was in the trenches at Cold Harbor and wiki doesn’t show that. There’s more.
The 29th was constantly attached and detached to the ANV throughout the war. The soldiers, as shown by the counties they came from, were mostly ‘mountain men’ from the edge of Appalachia.