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8th West Virginia Regiment Infantry.

Organized at Buffalo, W. Va., November, 1861.

Attached to District of the Kanawha, W. Va. Unassigned to May, 1862.

Cluserett's Advance Brigade, Dept. of the Mountains, to June, 1862.

Bohlen's Brigade, 3rd Division, 1st Corps, Pope's Army of Virginia, to September, 1862.

Milroy's Independent Brigade, Defenses of Washington, D. C., to October, 1862.

Point Pleasant, W. Va., District of the Kanawha, W. Va., Dept. of the Ohio, to March, 1863.

Averill's 4th Separate Brigade, 8th Army Corps, Middle Department, to June, 1863.

Averill's 4th Separate Brigade, Dept. of West Virginia, to December, 1863.

3rd Brigade, 4th Division, Army of West Virginia, to January, 1864.

Service.

Post duty at Buffalo, W. Va., till April, 1862.

Ordered to New Creek, W. Va. At Franklin till May 25.

Pursuit of Jackson up the Shenandoah Valley May 26-June 19.

Mount Carmel Road near Strasburg June 1.

Strasburg and Staunton Road June 1-2.

Harrisonburg June 6.

Battle of Cross Keys June 8.

Port Republic June 9.

Moved to Strasburg June 19-22, thence to Middletown June 24, and duty there till July.

Middletown July 7.

At Winchester till August 2.

Pope's Campaign in Northern Virginia August 2-September 22.

Fords of the Rappahannock August 20-23.

Freeman's Ford August 22.

Sulphur Springs August 23-24.

Waterloo Bridge August 25.

Gainesville August 28.

Groveton August 29.

Bull Run August 30.

In the Defenses of Washington, D. C., till September 29.

Moved to Mount Pleasant, W. Va., September 29-October 9.

Outpost duty at various points in District of West Virginia, till June, 1863.

Skirmish, Gilmer County, W. Va., April 24, 1863.

Regiment mounted at Bridgeport June, 1863.

Moved to Grafton June 17.

Beverly July 2-3.

Huttonsville July 4.

Moved to Cumberland, Md., July 7.

Hedgesville and Martinsburg July 18-19.

Averill's Raid through Hardy, Pendleton, Highland, Bath, Greenbrier and Pocahontas Counties, W. Va., August 5-31.

Huntersville August 22.

Warm Springs August 24.

Jackson River August 25.

Rocky Gap near White Sulphur Springs August 26-27.

At Martinsburg till November.

Averill's Raid against Lewisburg and the Virginia & Tennessee Railroad November 1-17.

Mill Point November 5.

Droop Mountain November 6.

Covington November 9.

Averill's Raid to Salem on Virginia & Tennessee Railroad December 8-25.

Gatewood's December [1664] 12.

Covington, Jackson River and Scott's or Barber's Creek December 19.

At Martinsburg till January, 1864.

Designation changed to 7th West Virginia Cavalry January 26, 1864 (which see).

1908.

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