United States Regiments & Batteries * West Virginia
The 1st West Virginia Infantry Regiment lost 3 officers and 51 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 2 officers and 136 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.
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1861
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| October 30 | Organized at Wheeling, W. Va. |
| October 13 | Companies A, B, D & E moved from Wheeling to Little Kanawha, Wirt County, W. Va. |
| November 2 | Companies A, B, D & E moved to Romney |
| November 9 | Regiment left Wheeling for Romney, W. Va. Attached to Railroad District, West Virginia |
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1862
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| January 6-7 | Expedition to Blue’s Gap. Attached to 3rd Brigade, Landers’ Division, Army of the Potomac |
| January 7 | Hanging Rock Pass, Blue’s Gap |
| January 10 | Moved to Patterson Creek |
| February 5-13 | Moved to Paw Paw Tunnel |
| March 1-15 | Advance on Winchester. Attached to 3rd Brigade, Shields’ Division, Banks’ 5th Army Corps |
| March 18-21 | Reconnaissance to Strasburg |
| March 22-23 |
First Battle of Winchester |
| March 24-April 4 | Pursuit of Jackson |
| March 27 | Edenburg |
| April 1 | Occupation of Mt. Jackson |
| April 4 | Attached to 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, Department of the Shenandoah |
| April 17 | New Market |
| May | Attached to 4th Brigade, Shields’ Division, Dept. of the Rappahannock |
| May 5 | Columbia Bridge |
| May 12-21 | March to Falmouth, Va. |
| May 25-June 7 | To Port Republic |
| May 31 | Gaines’ Cross Roads, near Front Royal |
| June 1 | White Plains |
| June 3 | Front Royal |
| June 9 |
Battle of Port Republic |
| June 10-27 | March to Cloud’s Mills, near Alexandria. Attached to 4th Brigade, 2nd Division, 3rd Army Corps, Pope’s Army of Virginia |
| July | Camp at Cloud’s Mills, near Alexandria |
| July 28 | Move to the Rappahannock |
| August 9 |
Battle of Cedar Mountain |
| August 16-September 2 |
Pope’s Campaign in Northern Virginia |
| August 20-23 | Rappahannock Station |
| August 26 | Sulphur Springs |
| August 28 | Thoroughfare Gap |
| August 29 |
Groveton |
| August 30 |
Second Battle of Bull Run (Manassas) |
| September-October 11 | In the Defenses of Washington Attached to 2nd Brigade, Whipple’s Division, Military District of Washington, D. C. |
| October 11-13 | Moved to Wheeling, W. Va. |
| November 27-28 | Moved to Cumberland, Md. |
| December 8 | To Romney, then to North Mountain, and duty there attached to Defences of Upper Potomac, 8th Army Corps, Middle Dept |
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1863
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| March 6 | At Mechanicsville Gap attached to 4th Brigade 1st Division, 8th Army Corps |
| June 14-20 | Moved to New Creek Station, thence to Cumberland, Md. Attached to Campbell’s Brigade, Scammon’s Division, West Virginia |
| July 13 | Moved to Hancock, thence to Williamsport |
| July 28 | At Back Creek |
| August 3 | To Winchester |
| August 15 | To Romney and to Petersburg |
| August-January | Operating against guerrillas and Imboden’s and McNeil’s forces |
| September 5 & 11 | Moorefield. Companies B, D, E, F & H mostly captured by McNeil. |
| December | Attached to 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, West Virginia |
| December 10-23 | Guard train from Petersburg to McDowell |
| December 16 | Descent on Salem |
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1864
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| January 10-12 | Retreat from Petersburg to New Creek |
| January 27-February 7 | Operations in Hampshire and Hardy Counties against Rosser |
| February & March | Veterans on furlough |
| April | Attached to 2nd Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, West Virginia |
| April 18 | Moved to Grafton |
| April 19-22 | To Martinsburg |
| April 30-May 16 | Sigel’s Expedition to New Market |
| May 14 | Mt. Jackson |
| May 15 | New Market |
| May 16-June 1 | At Cedar Creek |
| June 1-6 | Advance to Staunton |
| June 5 | Piedmont, Mt. Crawford |
| June 6 | Occupation of Staunton |
| June 10-July 1 | Hunter’s Raid on Lynchburg |
| June 11 | Lexington |
| June 17-18 | Lynchburg |
| June 18-29 | Retreat to Gauley Bridge |
| July 5-17 | Moved to the Shenandoah Valley |
| July 17-18 | Snicker’s Ferry |
| July 23-24 |
Second Battle of Kernstown |
| August to November |
Sheridan’s Shenandoah Valley Campaign |
| August 12 | Cedar Creek |
| August 22-24 | Charlestown |
| August 26 | Halltown |
| September 3-4 | Berryville |
| September 19 |
Battle of Opequan, Third Battle of Winchester |
| September 22 |
Fisher’s Hill |
| October 19 |
Battle of Cedar Creek |
| October 29 | Ordered to Cumberland, Md. |
| December 10 | Consolidated with 4th West Virginia Infantry to form 2nd West Virginia Veteran Infantry |