United States Regiments & Batteries * West Virginia
The 8th West Virginia Infantry Regiment lost 8 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 2 officers and 167 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.
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1861
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| November | Organized at Buffalo, W. Va. Post duty at Buffalo, attached to District of the Kanawha, W. Va. |
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1862
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| April | Ordered to New Creek, West Virginia in the Mountain Department |
| May | At Franklin assigned to Cluserett’s Advance Brigade, Dept. of the Mountains |
| May 26-June 19 | Pursuit of Jackson up the Shenandoah Valley |
| June 1 | Mt. Carmel Road near Strasburg |
| June 1-2 | Strasburg and Staunton Road |
| June 6 | Harrisonburg |
| June 8 | Battle of Cross Keys |
| June 9 | Port Republic |
| June 19-22 | Moved to Strasburg. Attached to Bohlen’s Brigade, 3rd Division, 1st Corps, Pope’s Army of Virginia |
| June 24 | To Middletown |
| July 7 | Middletown |
| July | At Winchester |
| August 2-September 22 | Pope’s Campaign in Northern Virginia |
| August 20-23 | Fords of the Rappahannock |
| August 22 | Freeman’s Ford |
| August 23-24 | Sulphur Springs |
| August 25 | Waterloo Bridge |
| August 28 | Gainesville |
| August 29 | Groveton |
| August 30 |
Second Battle of Bull Run |
| September | In the Defenses of Washington, D.C. attached to Milroy’s Independent Brigade, Defenses of Washington, D.C. |
| September 29-October 9 | Moved to Mt. Pleasant, W. Va. |
| October | Outpost duty at various points in District of West Virginia. Attached to Point Pleasant, W. Va., District of the Kanawha, W. Va., Dept. of the Ohio |
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1863
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| March | Attached to Averill’s 4th Separate Brigade, 8th Army Corps, Middle Department |
| April 24 | Skirmish, Gilmer County, W. Va. |
| June | Regiment mounted at Bridgeport and attached to Averill’s 4th Separate Brigade, Dept. of West Virginia |
| June 17 | Moved to Grafton |
| July 2-3 | Beverly |
| July 4 | Huttonsville |
| July 7 | Moved to Cumberland, Md. |
| July 18-19 | Hedgesville and Martinsburg |
| August 5-31 | Averill’s Raid through Hardy, Pendleton, Highland, Bath, Greenbrier and Pocahontas Counties, W. Va. |
| August 22 | Huntersville |
| August 24 | Warm Springs |
| August 25 | Jackson River |
| August 26-27 | Rocky Gap near White Sulphur Springs |
| September-October | At Martinsburg |
| November 1-17 | Averill’s Raid against Lewisburg and the Virginia & Tennessee Railroad |
| November 5 | Mill Point |
| November 6 | Droop Mountain |
| November 9 | Covington |
| December 8-25 | Averill’s Raid to Salem on Virginia & Tennessee Railroad |
| December 12 | Gatewood’s |
| December 19 | Covington, Jackson River and Scott’s or Barber’s Creek |
| December | At Martinsburg assigned to 3rd Brigade, 4th Division, Army of West Virginia |
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1864
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| January 26 | Designation changed to 7th West Virginia Cavalry |