United States Regiments & Batteries * West Virginia
The 5th West Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment lost 4 officers and 57 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 2 officer and 88 enlisted men by disease during the Civil War.
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1861
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| September 2 | Organized at Ceredo, W. Va. |
| October 18 | Mustered in under the command of Colonel John L. Zeigler and Major Albia A. Tomlinson. |
| October-November | Duty at Ceredo and in the Kanawha Valley, W. Va. attached to District of the Kanawha, West Virginia |
| December 10 | Moved to Parkersburg, W. Va., then to New Creek, W. Va., |
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1862
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| February 8 | Linn Creek, Logan County |
| February-May | Duty at New Creek |
| March | Assigned to District of Cumberland, Md., Mountain Department |
| March 10 | Major Abia A. Tomlinson was promoted to lieutenant colonel. |
| April | Assigned to Milroy’s Independent Brigade, Mountain Department |
| May 2 | Joined Milroy’s Brigade |
| May 8 |
Battle of McDowell |
| May 10-12 & 26 | Near Franklin |
| June | Attached to Milroy’s Independent Brigade, 1st Army Corps, Army of Virginia |
| June 8 |
Battle of Cross Keys |
| June 20-July 5 | At Strasburg |
| July 5-11 | Advance to Luray |
| July 11 | Moved to Sperryville |
| July 22 | To Woodville, and duty there |
| August 9 |
Battle of Cedar Mountain |
| August 10 | Cedar Run |
| August 16- September 2 |
Pope’s Campaign in Northern Virginia |
| August 20-23 | Fords of the Rappahannock |
| August 22 | Freeman’s Ford, Hazel River and Johnson’s Ford |
| August 24-25 | Waterloo Bridge |
| August 28 |
Gainesville |
| August 29 |
Groveton |
| August 30 |
Second Battle of Bull Run (Manassas) |
| September | Duty in the Defenses of Washington, D.C. |
| September 29-October 9 | Moved to Beverly, W. Va. and attached to District of the Kanawha, West Virginia, Dept. Ohio |
| October 10 | Parkersburg |
| October – March | Duty at Ceredo scouting Little Kanawha and east side of Big Sandy Rivers. |
| December | Attached to 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, West Virginia |
| December 8-25 | Scammon’s demonstration from the Kanawha Valley |
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1864
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| January | Attached to District of the Kanawha, West Virginia |
| March | Ordered to Wayne Court House and attached to 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 8th Army Corps, Middle Department |
| March 28 | Hurricane Creek |
| April -February | At Charlestown, Barboursville, Hurricane Bridge and other points in the Kanawha Valley |
| June | Attached to 1st Brigade, Scammon’s Division, Dept. of West Virginia |
| June 19 | Lieutenant Colonel Abia A. Tomlinson was promoted to colonel. |
| April | Attached to 1st Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, West Virginia |
| May 2-19 | Crook’s. Raid on the Virginia & Tennessee Railroad |
| May 6 | Rocky Gap |
| May 9 |
Battle of Cloyd’s Mountain |
| May 10 | New River Bridge and Blacksburg |
| May 12 | Union |
| May 24 | Meadow Bluff |
| May 26-July 1 | Hunter’s Expedition to Lynchburg |
| June 11-12 | Lexington |
| June 14 | Buchanan |
| June 16 | Otter Creek |
| June 17 | Diamond Hill |
| June 17-18 | Lynchburg |
| June 19 | Buford’s Gap |
| June 21 | Salem |
| July 13-15 | Moved to the Shenandoah Valley |
| July 19 | Kablestown |
| July 23-24 |
Battle of Kernstown, Winchester |
| July 25 | Martinsburg |
| August 6- November 1 |
Sheridan’s Shenandoah Valley Campaign |
| August 15 | Strasburg |
| August 24 | Summit Point |
| August 2 | Halltown |
| September 3 | Berryville |
| September 19 |
Battle of Opequan or Third Winchester |
| September 22 |
Fisher’s Hill |
| October 19 |
Battle of Cedar Creek |
| November 9 | Consolidated with 9th West Virginia Infantry to form 1st West Virginia Veteran Infantry. |