United States Regiments & Batteries * West Virginia
The 5th West Virginia Cavalry Regiment lost 3 officers and 68 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 118 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.
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1864
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| January 26 | Organized from 2nd Regiment West Virginia Mounted Infantry |
| February-March | Duty at Martinsburg, W. Va. |
| January 27-February 7 | Operations in Hampshire and Hardy Counties |
| February 2 | Springfield |
| March 19 | Moved to Cumberland, Md., and duty there and at Patterson’s Creek. Attached to 3rd Brigade, 4th Division, West Virginia |
| April 27-30 | Moved to Charleston. Attached to 3rd Brigade, Cavalry Division, West Virginia |
| May 2-19 | Crook’s Expedition to Virginia & Tennessee Railroad |
| May 9. | Cloyd’s Mountain or Farm |
| May 10 | New River Bridge |
| May 26-July 1 | Hunter’s Expedition to Lynchburg |
| June 11 | Lexington |
| June 13 | Near Buchanan |
| June 16 | New London |
| June 17 | Diamond Hill |
| June 17-18 | Lynchburg |
| June 19 | Liberty |
| June 20 | Buford’s Gap |
| June 21 | Catawba Mountains and about Salem |
| June | At Camp Piatt, Charleston and New Creek guarding railroad in district west of Sleepy Hollow, attached to 2nd Brigade, 2nd Cavalry Division, West Virginia |
| September | Consolidated to a Battalion at Charleston |
| November 6-8 | Expedition from New Creek to Moorefield (Detachment) |
| New Creek | November 28 |
| December 14 | Transferred to 6th West Virginia Cavalry |