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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.
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, 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 ...
With the outbreak of the Civil War and the War Department's wanting to re-designate all mounted regiments as cavalry and to renumber them in order of seniority., the First Dragoons became the "First Regiment of Cavalry" by an Act of Congress on 3 August 1861 (the existing First Cavalry Regiment (formed in 1855) was the fourth oldest mounted ...
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 ...
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.
Hulver, Richard A. McNeill's Rangers in the Public Memory of Hardy County, West Virginia. West Virginia History: A Journal of Regional Studies, 2014, V. 8, no. 1: 21–38. Raiford, Neil Hunter. The 4th North Carolina Cavalry in the Civil War: A History and Roster. McFarland & Company, 2003 ISBN 0-7864-1468-5