United States Regiments & Batteries * West Virginia
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.
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1861
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| 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. |
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1862
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| 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 |
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1863
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| 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 |