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The First Virginia Cavalry participated in more than 200 engagements of various types throughout the American Civil War, during which it was reorganized several times. Its significant casualties at the First Battle of Bull Run led to reorganization and placement under the command of Brigadier General J.E.B. Stuart.
Pages in category "Military personnel of the 1st Cavalry Army" The following 55 pages are in this category, out of 55 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The unique silver medal was designed by French artists Du Pre and De Vivier. (A British version of this duel can be found under Chapter 33 Year 1781.) Monument to 1st Virginia Cavalry, under command of Lieut. Col. William Washington, Guilford Courthouse National Military Park, present-day Greensboro, North Carolina
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 ...
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.
Schaeffer's Virginia Battalion (3 companies): Cpt Francis B. Schaeffer; Loudoun (Virginia) Cavalry: Cpt William W. Mead; 30th Virginia Cavalry, Troops B and D: Cpt G. W. H. Hale; Loudoun (Virginia) Battery: Cpt Arthur L. Rogers; Lynchburg (Virginia) Artillery, First Section: Cpt H. Grey Latham; Sixth Brigade Col Jubal A. Early
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 ...
The 1st West Virginia Cavalry was sent upriver where it crossed and then charged down on Rosser. [Note 11] The brigade drove off Rosser's cavalry, capturing 50 men and all of his artillery. [104] Thus Custer, utilizing Capehart's brigade (including the 1st West Virginia Cavalry), defeated one of the Confederacy's best cavalries. [105]