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The 1st West Virginia Cavalry Regiment remained in the 2nd Brigade of Powell's Second Division. Powell positioned his division near Front Royal to prevent Confederate cavalry under General Lunsford L. Lomax from flanking the Union force. [81] The 1st West Virginia Cavalry had a total of 3 casualties in this battle. [82]
The First Virginia Cavalry, not to be confused with the Confederate 1st Virginia Cavalry, and later renamed the 1st West Virginia Cavalry Regiment, was formed during the summer and fall of 1861 to fight for the Union in the American Civil War. Although it started slowly, it became one of the most effective of all West Virginia regiments.
West Virginia, which seceded from Virginia to join the Union, provided the following units to the Union Army during the American Civil War.Units raised in the western counties prior to the creation of the state of West Virginia were often known as, "loyal Virginians," who formed the Restored government of Virginia in Wheeling, West Virginia in 1861, unanimously electing Francis H. Pierpont as ...
Thomas A. Anderson (July 12, 1841 – September 8, 1912) was a United States soldier and native of Pennsylvania who fought with the Union Army as a corporal in Company I of the 1st West Virginia Cavalry during the American Civil War.
West Virginia campaign. On Stonewall Jackson's staff from June 4, 1862, until April 14, 1863, when he recruited 19th Virginia Cavalry: colonel, April 17, 1863. Active in West Virginia and Valley Campaigns of 1864. Jenkins, Albert Gallatin: Brigadier general rank, nom: August 5, 1862 conf: September 30, 1862 Attended VMI. U.S. Representative ...
The remains of the cavalry unit cut through the Federal lines at Appomattox, shortly before it was formally disbanded. Only one man from this unit was present at the surrender. In April 1862, the First Virginia Cavalry totaled 437 men. It lost eight percent of the 310 engaged at Gettysburg in July 1863, and had 318 fit for duty in September 1864.
Troopers in the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment assembled in the Parade Square at Hyde Park Barracks to take part in an annual event to find the best turned out soldier and horse.
The 210 man unit (equivalent to a small or under-strength battalion) was formed from Company E of the 18th Virginia Cavalry and the First Virginia Partisan Rangers (62nd Virginia Mounted Infantry). After the repeal of the Act on February 17, 1864, McNeill's Rangers was one of two partisan forces allowed to continue operation, the other being ...