The 11th West Virginia Infantry Regiment lost 4 officers and 63 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 148 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.
1861 |
October 29, 1861 - October 8, 1862 |
Organized at Wheeling, Elizabeth, Burning Springs, Parkersburg, Ravenswood, Kanawha Station and Point Pleasant, W. Va. At Ceredo and Parkersburg, W. Va. Duty at Parkersburg and guarding Baltimore & Ohio Railroad through counties south of line from Jackson County to Lewis County. |
1862 |
May 6 |
Skirmishes at Arnoldsburg and Camp McDonald, W. Va. |
May 8-21 |
Scout to Roane and Clay Counties |
June 4 |
Big Bend |
June 10 |
Mouth West Fork |
September 1 |
Glenville |
September 2 |
Spencer Roane Court House |
October |
Attached to Railroad District, West Virginia, Dept. of the Mountains and Middle Department |
1863 |
January |
Attached to Parkersburg, W. Va. |
March |
Attached to 6th Brigade, 1st Division, 8th Army Corps, Middle Department |
April 21-May 21 |
Operations against Jones' Raid on Baltimore & Ohio Railroad |
May 6 |
West Union (1 Company) |
May 16 |
Elizabeth Court House |
May |
Duty on the Upper Potomac at Parkersburg, Clarksburg, Grafton, Sutton, Bulltown and Beverly guarding Baltimore & Ohio Railroad attached to Wilkinson's Brigade, Scammon's Division, Dept. West Virginia |
July 2-26 |
Operations against Morgan |
August 21 |
Glenville (Companies C & H) |
August 27 |
Near Glenville (Companies C & H) |
September 8 |
Skirmish at Beech Fork, Calhoun County |
September 12 |
Roane County |
October 13 |
Bulltown, Braxton County |
October 14 |
Salt Lick Bridge |
October 26 |
Ravenswood |
October 27 |
Sandy River near Elizabeth |
December 3 |
Hurricane Creek (Detachment) |
December |
Attached to 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, West Virginia |
1864 |
April |
Attached to 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, West Virginia |
May 2-19 |
Crook's Raid on Virginia & Tennessee Railroad |
May 6 |
Princeton |
May 9 |
Battle of Cloyd's Mountain |
May 10 |
Cove Mountain or Grassy lack near Wytheville and New River Bridge |
May 12-13 |
Salt Pond Mountain and Gap Mountain |
May 26-July 1 |
Hunter's Expedition to Lynchburg |
June 4 |
Panther Gap |
June 10 |
Middlebrook and Brownsville |
June 11 |
Lexington |
June 16 |
Otter Creek near Liberty; Spencer |
June 17 |
Diamond Hill |
June 17-18 |
Lynchburg |
June 19-July 1 |
Retreat to Charleston, W. Va. |
June 19 |
Buford's Gap |
June 21 |
About Salem |
July |
Moved to Shenandoah Valley and attached to 2nd Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division, West Virginia, then 3rd Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, West Virginia |
July 8 |
Sandy Hook, Md. |
July 17-18 |
Snicker's Ferry or Gap |
July 24 |
Battle of Kernstown, Winchester |
August 1 |
Flintstone Creek, Md. |
August 1 |
Cumberland, Md. (4 Companies) |
August 7-November 28 |
Sheridan's Shenandoah Valley Campaign |
September 3 |
Berryville |
September 19 |
Battle of Opequan, Winchester |
September 22 |
Fisher's Hill |
October 1 and 13 |
Skirmishes at Cedar Creek |
October 19 |
Battle of Cedar Creek |
October-December |
Duty in Shenandoah Valley at Camp Russell |
December 19-23 |
Moved to Washington, D.C., then to Bermuda Hundred, Va. |
December-March |
Duty in the trenches before Richmond attached to 3rd Brigade, Independent Division, 24th Army Corps, Army of the James |
1865 |
March 28-April 9 |
Appomattox Campaign |
March 28-29 |
Moved to front of Petersburg |
March 30-31 & April 1 |
Hatcher's Run |
April 2 |
Fall of Petersburg |
April 3-9 |
Pursuit of Lee |
April 6 |
Rice's Station |
April 9 |
Appomattox Court House. Surrender of Lee and his army. |
April 12-15 |
March to Lynchburg |
April 15-19 |
To Farmville and Burkesville Junction |
April 22-25 |
To Richmond |
May-June |
Duty near Richmond |
June 17 |
Mustered out |
