8th Virginia Cavalry Regiment

Confederate Regiments & Batteries * Virginia

1861
Late 1861 Organized with nine companies under the command of Colonel Walter J. Jenifer. Assigned to the Department of the Kanawha.
September Two companies were transferred from the 50th Virginia Infantry Regiment, where they had been temporarily attached.
1862
March-May Assigned to District of Lewisburg
May-November Assigned to District of Lewisburg, Department of Southwestern Virginia
May 1 Camp Creek, Stone River Valley
May 10 Giles Court House
May 15 The regiment was reorganized. Colonel Jenifer was dropped. Captain Thomas P. Bowen of Company H was promoted to major.
May 23 Lewisburg
August 22-September 19
Jenkins’s Expedition into West Virginia and Ohio

(seven companies)
August 30 Buckhannon (seven companies)
August 31 Weston (seven companies)
September 1 Glenville (seven companies)
September 2 Spencer Court House (seven companies)
November Assigned to Cavalry, Department of Western Virginia
1863
February Assigned to the Cavalry Brigade, Department of Western Virginia
May-August Assigned to Jenkins’s Brigade, Cavalry Division, Army of Northern Virginia
August 26-27 White Sulphur Springs
October-November Assigned to Jones’s Cavalry Brigade, Ransom’s Division, Department of West Virginia and East Tennessee
November-December
Siege of Knoxville

Assigned to Jones’s Cavalry Brigade, Ransom’s Division, Department of East Tennessee
November 6 Rogersville, Tennessee
1864
January Jonesville
February-March Assigned to Jones’s Brigade, Cavalry, Department of East Tennessee
February 22 Gibson’s and Wyerman’s Mills, Indian Creek
March-April Assigned to Jones’s Brigade, Jones’s Division, Cavalry Corps, Department of East Tennessee
April-May Assigned to Jones’s Brigade, Cavalry, Department of East Tennessee. The regiment mustered 225 men.
May Assigned to Jones’s-B.T. Johnson’s Cavalry Brigade, Department of Southwestern Virginia
June 5
Battle of Piedmont
June
Lynchburg Campaign
July Assigned to B.T. Johnson’s Brigade, Ransom’s-Lomax’s Cavalry Division, Army of the Valley
July 9 Battle of Monocacy
July 30 Chambersburg
August 7 Moorefield
September 19
Third Battle of Winchester
September 22
Battle of Fisher’s Hill
October 19
Battle of Cedar Creek
November Assigned to Payne’s Brigade, F. Lee’s-Rosser’s Division, Cavalry Corps, Army of Northern Virginia
November 28 New Creek
1865
February-April
Siege of Petersburg

Assigned to Payne’s Brigade, F. Lee’s Division, Cavalry Corps, Army of Northern Virginia
April 7
High Bridge
April 9
Appomattox Court House

The regiment escaped and no members surrendered with Lee. it disbanded shortly afterward.