United States Regiments & Batteries  * West Virginia


The 7th West Virginia Cavalry Regiment lost 5 officers and 28 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 2 officers and 201 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.

1864
January 26 Organized from 8th West Virginia Mounted Infantry
February Duty at Martinsburg, W. Va. attached to 3rd Brigade, 4th Division, Army West Virginia
May 2-19 Crook’s Raid on Virginia & Tennessee Railroad
May 6 Rocky Gap
May 9 Cloyd’s Mountain
May 10 New River Bridge and Cove Gap
May 11 Blacksburg
May 12 Union and Pond Mountain Gap
May 24 Meadow Bluff
May 26-July 1 Hunter’s Raid to Lynchburg
June 6 Buffalo Gap
June 11 Lexington
June 13 Buchanan
June 16 New London
June 17 Diamond Hill
June 17-18 Lynchburg
June 19 Liberty
June 20 Buford’s Gap
June 21 About Salem
June 29 At Loup Creek
June 30 Ordered to the Kanawha Valley and duty at Charleston, Coalsmouth, Winfield, Point Pleasant and Guyandotte. Attached to 2nd Brigade, 2nd Cavalry Division, West Virginia
July Attached to 1st Separate Brigade, Kanawha Valley, W. Va.
September 30 Coalsmouth
October 26 Skirmish at Winfield (1 company)
November 5-12 Operations in the Kanawha Valley
1865
August 1 Mustered out