United States Regiments & Batteries * West Virginia
The 6th 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.
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1864
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| January 26 | Organized from 3rd West Virginia Mounted Infantry |
| February | Duty at Martinsburg and Charleston, W. Va., W. Va. attached to 3rd Brigade, 4th Division, Army West Virginia |
| January 27- February 7 |
Operations in Hampshire and Hardy Counties |
| February 2 | Springfield |
| March | Moved to Beverly |
| April | Attached to 3rd Brigade, 2nd Cavalry Division, West Virginia |
| April 8 | Winchester (Detachment) |
| June | Attached to 2nd Brigade, 2nd Cavalry Division, West Virginia |
| June 10 | Kablestown (Detachment) |
| June 13 | White Post (Detachment) |
| June 26 | Wire Bridge and Springfield (Detachment) |
| July 4 | Frankfort |
| July 26 | Back Creek Bridge |
| July 7 | Regiment reorganized at Cumberland, Md. Attached to Reserve Division, Harper’s Ferry, W. Va. |
| August 22 | Remounted at North Bridge and ordered to New Creek. |
| November 6-8 | Expedition, to Moorefield (Detachment) |
| November 27-28 | Moorefield |
| November 28 | New Creek |
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1865
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| January 12 | Moved to Remount Camp, Pleasant Valley, Md. |
| April 4 | Duty at Washington, D.C. attached to 22nd Army Corps |
| June 12-29 | Moved to Leavenworth, Kan. and attached to District of the Plains, Dept. of MissouriA detachment moved to Fort Kearney, Neb., and duty under Major Squires. |
| July 16 | Regiment moved to Julesburg and duty escorting Overland mails and operating against hostile Indians at Julesburg and Cottonwood Springs |
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1866
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| April | Moved to Fort Leavenworth, Kan. |
| May 22 | Mustered out |