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 |