The Civil War in the East

7th West Virginia Cavalry Regiment

 

The 7th West Virginia Cavalry Regiment lost 5 officers and 28 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 2 officers and 201 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.

 

1864

January 26

Organized from 8th West Virginia Mounted Infantry

February

Duty at Martinsburg, W. Va. attached to 3rd Brigade, 4th Division, Army West Virginia

May 2-19

Crook's Raid on Virginia & Tennessee Railroad

May 6

Rocky Gap

May 9

Cloyd's Mountain

May 10

New River Bridge and Cove Gap

May 11

Blacksburg

May 12

Union and Pond Mountain Gap

May 24

Meadow Bluff

May 26-July 1

Hunter's Raid to Lynchburg

June 6

Buffalo Gap

June 11

Lexington

June 13

Buchanan

June 16

New London

June 17

Diamond Hill

June 17-18

Lynchburg

June 19

Liberty

June 20

Buford's Gap

June 21

About Salem

June 29

At Loup Creek

June 30

Ordered to the Kanawha Valley and duty at Charleston, Coalsmouth, Winfield, Point Pleasant and Guyandotte. Attached to 2nd Brigade, 2nd Cavalry Division, West Virginia

July

Attached to 1st Separate Brigade, Kanawha Valley, W. Va.

September 30

Coalsmouth

October 26

Skirmish at Winfield (1 company)

November 5-12

Operations in the Kanawha Valley

1865

August 1

Mustered out