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7th West Virginia Regiment Cavalry

Organized from 8th West Virginia Mounted Infantry January 26, 1864.

Attached to 3rd Brigade, 4th Division, West Virginia, to April, 1864.

3rd Brigade, 2nd Cavalry Division, West Virginia, to June, 1864.

2nd Brigade, 2nd Cavalry Division, West Virginia, to July, 1864.

1st Separate Brigade, Kanawha Valley, W. Va., to August, 1865.


Service.

Duty at Martinsburg and Charleston, W. Va., to April, 1864.

Crook's Raid on Virginia & Tennessee Railroad May 2-19.

Rocky Gap May 6.

Cloyd's Mountain May 9.

New River Bridge May 10.

Cove Gap May 10.

Blacksburg May 11.

Union and Pond Mountain Gap May 12.

Meadow Bluff May 24.

Hunter's Raid to Lynchburg May 26-July 1.

Buffalo Gap June 6.

Lexington June 11.

Buchanan June 13.

New London June 16.

Diamond Hill June 17.

Lynchburg June 17-18.

Liberty June 19.

Buford's Gap June 20.

About Salem June 21.

At Loup Creek June 29.

Ordered to the Kanawha Valley and duty at Charleston, Coalsmouth, Winfield, Point Pleasant and Guyandotte till August, 1865.

Coalsmouth September 30, 1864.

Skirmish at Winfield October 26, 1864 (1 Co.).

Operations in the Kanawha Valley November 5-12.

Mustered out August 1, 1865.

Regiment lost during service 5 Officers and 28 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 2 Officers and 201 Enlisted men by disease. Total 236.

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