The 8th West Virginia Infantry Regiment lost 8 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 2 officers and 167 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.
1861 |
November |
Organized at Buffalo, W. Va. Post duty at Buffalo, W. Va. attached to District of the Kanawha, W. Va. |
1862 |
April |
Ordered to New Creek, W. Va. |
May |
At Franklin assigned to Cluserett's Advance Brigade, Dept. of the Mountains |
May 26-June 19 |
Pursuit of Jackson up the Shenandoah Valley |
June 1 |
Mt. Carmel Road near Strasburg |
June 1-2 |
Strasburg and Staunton Road |
June 6 |
Harrisonburg |
June 8 |
Battle of Cross Keys |
June 9 |
Port Republic |
June 19-22 |
Moved to Strasburg. Attached to Bohlen's Brigade, 3rd Division, 1st Corps, Pope's Army of Virginia |
June 24 |
To Middletown |
July 7 |
Middletown |
July |
At Winchester |
August 2-September 22 |
Pope's Campaign in Northern Virginia |
August 20-23 |
Fords of the Rappahannock |
August 22 |
Freeman's Ford |
August 23-24 |
Sulphur Springs |
August 25 |
Waterloo Bridge |
August 28 |
Gainesville |
August 29 |
Groveton |
August 30 |
Bull Run |
September |
In the Defenses of Washington, D.C. attached to Milroy's Independent Brigade, Defenses of Washington, D.C. |
September 29-October 9 |
Moved to Mt. Pleasant, W. Va. |
October |
Outpost duty at various points in District of West Virginia. Attached to Point Pleasant, W. Va., District of the Kanawha, W. Va., Dept. of the Ohio |
1863 |
March |
Attached to Averill's 4th Separate Brigade, 8th Army Corps, Middle Department |
April 24 |
Skirmish, Gilmer County, W. Va. |
June |
Regiment mounted at Bridgeport and attached to Averill's 4th Separate Brigade, Dept. of West Virginia |
June 17 |
Moved to Grafton |
July 2-3 |
Beverly |
July 4 |
Huttonsville |
July 7 |
Moved to Cumberland, Md. |
July 18-19 |
Hedgesville and Martinsburg |
August 5-31 |
Averill's Raid through Hardy, Pendleton, Highland, Bath, Greenbrier and Pocahontas Counties, W. Va. |
August 22 |
Huntersville |
August 24 |
Warm Springs |
August 25 |
Jackson River |
August 26-27 |
Rocky Gap near White Sulphur Springs |
September-October |
At Martinsburg |
November 1-17 |
Averill's Raid against Lewisburg and the Virginia & Tennessee Railroad |
November 5 |
Mill Point |
November 6 |
Droop Mountain |
November 9 |
Covington |
December 8-25 |
Averill's Raid to Salem on Virginia & Tennessee Railroad |
December 12 |
Gatewood's |
December 19 |
Covington, Jackson River and Scott's or Barber's Creek |
December |
At Martinsburg assigned to 3rd Brigade, 4th Division, Army of West Virginia |
1864 |
January 26 |
Designation changed to 7th West Virginia Cavalry |
