United States Regiments & Batteries * West Virginia
1861
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June 17 – August 22 | Organized at Macon City, Point Pleasant and Grafton, W. Va. |
June-March | Assigned to District of the Kanawha, W. Va. |
August 13 | Skirmish at Grafton, W. Va. (Company A) |
August 22 | Moved up the Kanawha Valley |
October 19-November 16 | Operations in the Kanawha Valley and New River Region |
October 26 | Mill Creek Mills |
November-December | At Ceredo |
1862
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January | March to Louisa Court House and operating with Garfield in operations against Humphrey Marshall in Eastern Kentucky |
March | Attached to 4th Brigade, Kanawha Division, West Virginia |
April 3 | March up the Kanawha Valley to join Gen. Cox |
April-August | At Flat Top Mountain |
August 2-8 | Operations about Wyoming Court House |
August 5 | Wyoming Court House (Companies H and I) |
August 6 | Beech Creek |
September 2-16 | Campaign in the Kanawha Valley. Attached to Point Pleasant, W. Va., District of the Kanawha, W. Va., Dept. of the Ohio |
September 10 | Repulse of Loring’s attack on Fayetteville |
September 11 | Cotton Hill and Charlestown; Gauley Ferry |
September 12 | Gauley Bridge |
September 12-13 | Charlestown |
September | At Point Pleasant |
October 3 | Bulltown, Braxton County |
October 14 | Salt Lick Bridge |
October 21-November 10 | Expedition up the Kanawha Valley to Charlestown |
November-December | At Fayetteville |
January 21 | Ordered to Napoleon, Ark., thence to Young’s Point, La., and duty there. Attached to 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, 15th Army Corps, Army of the Tennessee |
1863
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March 14-27 | Expedition to Rolling Fork via Muddy, Steele’s and Black Bayous and Deer Creek |
March 28 | At Milliken’s Bend |
April 5-10 | Expedition to Black Bayou |
April 29-May 2 | Demonstration against Haines and Drumgould’s Bluffs |
May 2-14 | Moved to join army in rear of Vicksburg, Miss., via Richmond and Grand Gulf |
May 18-July 4 | Siege of Vicksburg, Miss. |
May 19 & 22 | Assaults on Vicksburg |
July 4 | Surrender of Vicksburg |
July 5-10 | Advance on Jackson, Miss. |
July 10-17 | Siege of Jackson |
July-August | At Big Black River |
September 26-November 20 | Moved to Memphis, Tenn., thence march to Chattanooga, Tenn. |
October 20-29 | Operations on Memphis & Charleston Railroad in Alabama. Attached to 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, 15th Army Corps |
October 27 | Brier Creek, Tuscumbia |
November 23-27 | Chattanooga-Ringgold Campaign |
November 23-24 | Tunnel Hill |
November 25 | Mission Ridge |
November 26-27 | Pursuit to Graysville |
November 28-December 8 | March to relief of Knoxville, Tenn. |
1864
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February 3 | Regiment reenlisted |
March 15 – May 3 | Veterans on furlough |
May | Joined Hunter at Cedar Creek, W. Va. Attached to 2nd Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, West Virginia. |
May 26-July 1 | Hunter’s Expedition to Lynchburg, Va. |
June 5 | Piedmont, Mt. Crawford |
June 6 | Occupation of Staunton |
June 17-18 | Lynchburg |
June 18-July 1 | Retreat to Martinsburg |
July 17-18 | Moved to the Shenandoah Valley, Snicker’s Gap |
July 24 | Kernstown or Winchester |
August-September | Shenandoah Valley Campaign |
September 3 | Berryville |
September-December | At Stephenson’s Depot |
December | Moved to Cumberland, Md. |
December 21 | Consolidated with 1st West Virginia Infantry to form 2nd West Virginia Veteran Infantry. |