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5th West Virginia Regiment Cavalry

Organized from 2nd Regiment West Virginia Mounted Infantry January 26, 1864.

Attached to Martinsburg, W. Va., to March, 1864.

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

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

2nd Brigade, 2nd Cavalry Division, West Virginia, to July, 1865.

Kelly's Command, Reserve Division, West Virginia, to December, 1864.


Service.

Duty at Martinsburg, W. Va., till March 19, 1864.

Operations in Hampshire and Hardy Counties January 27-February 7.

Springfield February 2.

Moved to Cumberland, Md., and duty there and at Patterson's Creek till April 27.

Moved to Charleston April 27-30.

Crook's Expedition to Virginia & Tennessee Railroad May 2-19.

Cloyd's Mountain or Farm May 9.

New River Bridge May 10.

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

Lexington June 11.

Near Buchanan June 13.

New London June 16.

Diamond Hill June 17.

Lynchburg June 17-18.

Liberty June 19.

Buford's Gap June 20.

Catawba Mountains and about Salem June 21.

At Camp Piatt, Charleston and New Creek guarding railroad in district west of Sleepy Hollow till December.

Consolidated to a Battalion at Charleston September.

Expedition from New Creek to Moorefield November 6-8 (Detachment).

New Creek November 28.

Transferred to 6th West Virginia Cavalry December 14, 1864.

Regiment lost during service 3 Officers and 68 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 118 Enlisted men by disease. Total 189.

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