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Col. John "Shac" Shackleford Green Civil War veteran Thomas Benjamin Amiss in U.C.V. uniform; enlisted in the 6th Virginia Cavalry as 3rd Cpl., Co. B. The 6th Virginia Cavalry Regiment was a cavalry regiment raised in Virginia for service in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.
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The regiment's designation was changed to the 6th U.S. Cavalry Regiment on 10 August 1861 due to a general reorganization of all United States Army cavalry regiments a few months shortly after the beginning of the Civil War; the Regiment of Mounted Rifles took on the name of the 3rd Cavalry Regiment instead.
6th Virginia Cavalry, a Confederate regiment of the American Civil War Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about military units and formations which are associated with the same title.
By September 1891 Gatewood had recovered and he rejoined the 6th U.S. Cavalry Regiment, then stationed at Fort McKinney, Wyoming Territory (future 44th state of Wyoming, by July 1890). [25] Wyoming was undergoing a range war between ranchers and farmers that would be known as the Johnson County War (1889-1893) and the 6th Cavalry was dispatched ...
40th Cavalry Regiment - 40th Armor Regiment was an armored regiment of the United States Army from 1941 until 1997. It was redesignated and reactivated in 2005 as the 40th Cavalry Regiment serving in the 4th Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division. [2]
Some of the Confederate cavalry to the west, [24] the 2nd Virginia Cavalry Regiment and the 6th Virginia Cavalry Regiment under Colonel Thomas Flournoy, also raced for the bridge over the North Fork, as Confederate control of that bridge would cut off the last Union line of retreat. [24]
The 6th Virginia Regiment was raised on December 28, 1775, at Williamsburg, Virginia, for service with the Continental Army.The regiment would see action at the Battle of Trenton, Battle of Princeton, Battle of Brandywine, Battle of Germantown, Battle of Monmouth and the Siege of Charleston.