The 5th West Virginia Cavalry Regiment lost 3 officers and 68 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 118 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.
1864 |
January 26 |
Organized from 2nd Regiment West Virginia Mounted Infantry |
February-March |
Duty at Martinsburg, W. Va. |
January 27-February 7 |
Operations in Hampshire and Hardy Counties |
February 2 |
Springfield |
March 19 |
Moved to Cumberland, Md., and duty there and at Patterson's Creek. Attached to 3rd Brigade, 4th Division, West Virginia |
April 27-30 |
Moved to Charleston. Attached to 3rd Brigade, Cavalry Division, West Virginia |
May 2-19 |
Crook's Expedition to Virginia & Tennessee Railroad |
May 9. |
Cloyd's Mountain or Farm |
May 10 |
New River Bridge |
May 26-July 1 |
Hunter's Expedition to Lynchburg |
June 11 |
Lexington |
June 13 |
Near Buchanan |
June 16 |
New London |
June 17 |
Diamond Hill |
June 17-18 |
Lynchburg |
June 19 |
Liberty |
June 20 |
Buford's Gap |
June 21 |
Catawba Mountains and about Salem |
June |
At Camp Piatt, Charleston and New Creek guarding railroad in district west of Sleepy Hollow, attached to 2nd Brigade, 2nd Cavalry Division, West Virginia |
September |
Consolidated to a Battalion at Charleston |
November 6-8 |
Expedition from New Creek to Moorefield (Detachment) |
New Creek |
November 28 |
December 14 |
Transferred to 6th West Virginia Cavalry |
