The 6th West Virginia Infantry Regiment lost 8 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 2 officers and 167 enlisted men by disease during the Civil War.
1861 |
August 13 to December 26 |
Organized at Grafton, Mannington, Cairo, Parkersburg and Wheeling, W. Va. Regiment organized for railroad guard duty and served on line of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad by detachments, at various points west of Sleepy Hollow entire term. Attached to Railroad District, West Virginia. |
1862 |
March |
Attached to Railroad District, Mountain Department |
April 12 |
Raid from Fairmont to Valley River and Bootheville and Skirmish at Valley River (Company A) |
June 7 |
Skirmish at Big Bend |
July |
Attached to Railroad District, 8th Army Corps, Middle Department |
August 31 |
Skirmish at Weston (2 Companies) |
September 3 |
Skirmish at Weston (Detachment) |
September |
Attached to Railroad District, West Virginia |
September 28 |
Skirmish at Standing Stone |
November 9 |
Capture of St. George (Company B) |
December |
Attached to 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, West Virginia |
1863 |
January |
Attached to Clarksburg, W. Va., 8th Army Corps |
March |
Attached to 6th Brigade, 1st Division, 8th Army Corps |
April |
Attached to Kelly's Command, Reserve Division, West Virginia |
April 18 |
Skirmish at Johnstown (Detachment) |
April 23 |
Skirmish at Rowlesburg |
April 26 |
Rowlesburg and Portland and Oakland, Md. (1 Company) |
April 29 |
Skirmish at Bridgeport (Detachment) |
April 29 |
Fairmont (Detachment) |
April 30 |
Bridgeport |
June |
Attached to Wilkinson's Brigade, Scammon's Division, Dept. of West Virginia |
August 26 |
Sutton (Companies G & I) |
August 27 |
Ball's Mills and on Elk River (Detachment) |
October 13 |
Bulltown, Braxton County (Detachment) |
May 3 |
Bulltown (Detachment) |
July 4 |
South Branch Bridge (Detachment) and Patterson's Creek Bridge (Detachment) |
July 27 |
Back Creek Bridge (Detachment) |
August 1 |
Cumberland, Md. (1 Company) |
August 4 |
New Creek (2 Companies) |
August 20 |
Bulltown (Detachment) |
August 24 |
Sutton (Detachment) |
August 27 |
Nutter Hill (Detachment) |
November 28 |
New Creek (Detachment) |
April |
Attached to 1st Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, West Virginia |
June 10 |
Mustered out |
