11th West Virginia Infantry Regiment

United States Regiments & Batteries  * West Virginia

The 11th West Virginia Infantry Regiment lost 4 officers and 63 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 148 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.

1861
October 29, 1861 – October 8, 1862 Organized at Wheeling, Elizabeth, Burning Springs, Parkersburg, Ravenswood, Kanawha Station and Point Pleasant, W. Va. At Ceredo and Parkersburg, W. Va. Duty at Parkersburg and guarding Baltimore & Ohio Railroad through counties south of line from Jackson County to Lewis County.
1862
May 6 Skirmishes at Arnoldsburg and Camp McDonald, W. Va.
May 8-21 Scout to Roane and Clay Counties
June 4 Big Bend
June 10 Mouth West Fork
September 1 Glenville
September 2 Spencer Roane Court House
October Attached to Railroad District, West Virginia, Dept. of the Mountains and Middle Department
1863
January Attached to Parkersburg, W. Va.
March Attached to 6th Brigade, 1st Division, 8th Army Corps, Middle Department
April 21-May 21 Operations against Jones’ Raid on Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
May 6 West Union (1 Company)
May 16 Elizabeth Court House
May Duty on the Upper Potomac at Parkersburg, Clarksburg, Grafton, Sutton, Bulltown and Beverly guarding Baltimore & Ohio Railroad attached to Wilkinson’s Brigade, Scammon’s Division, Dept. West Virginia
July 2-26 Operations against Morgan
August 21 Glenville (Companies C & H)
August 27 Near Glenville (Companies C & H)
September 8 Skirmish at Beech Fork, Calhoun County
September 12 Roane County
October 13 Bulltown, Braxton County
October 14 Salt Lick Bridge
October 26 Ravenswood
October 27 Sandy River near Elizabeth
December 3 Hurricane Creek (Detachment)
December Attached to 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, West Virginia
1864
April Attached to 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, West Virginia
May 2-19 Crook’s Raid on Virginia & Tennessee Railroad
May 6 Princeton
May 9 Battle of Cloyd’s Mountain
May 10 Cove Mountain or Grassy lack near Wytheville and New River Bridge
May 12-13 Salt Pond Mountain and Gap Mountain
May 26-July 1 Hunter’s Expedition to Lynchburg
June 4 Panther Gap
June 10 Middlebrook and Brownsville
June 11 Lexington
June 16 Otter Creek near Liberty; Spencer
June 17 Diamond Hill
June 17-18 Lynchburg
June 19-July 1 Retreat to Charleston, W. Va.
June 19 Buford’s Gap
June 21 About Salem
July Moved to Shenandoah Valley and attached to 2nd Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division, West Virginia, then 3rd Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, West Virginia
July 8 Sandy Hook, Md.
July 17-18 Snicker’s Ferry or Gap
July 24
Second Battle of Kernstown
August 1 Flintstone Creek, Md.
August 1 Cumberland, Md. (4 Companies)
August 7-November 28 Sheridan’s Shenandoah Valley Campaign
September 3 Berryville
September 19
Battle of Opequan (Third Battle of Winchester)
September 22
Battle of Fisher’s Hill

Private George G. Moore of Company D was awarded the Medal of Honor for extraordinary heroism in capturing a Confederate battle flag.
October 1 and 13 Skirmishes at Cedar Creek
October 19
Battle of Cedar Creek
October-December Duty in Shenandoah Valley at Camp Russell
December 19-23 Moved to Washington, D.C., then to Bermuda Hundred, Va.
December-March Duty in the trenches before Richmond attached to 3rd Brigade, Independent Division, 24th Army Corps, Army of the James
1865
March 28-April 9

Appomattox Campaign
March 28-29 Moved to front of Petersburg
March 30-31 & April 1
Hatcher’s Run
April 2
Fall of Petersburg
April 3-9 Pursuit of Lee
April 6 Rice’s Station
April 9
Appomattox Court House

Surrender of Lee and his army.
April 12-15 March to Lynchburg
April 15-19 To Farmville and Burkesville Junction
April 22-25 To Richmond
May-June Duty near Richmond
June 17 Mustered out