6th West Virginia Volunteer Cavalry Regiment

6th West Virginia Volunteer Cavalry Regiment

Flag of West Virginia
Active January 26, 1864 to May 22, 1866
Country United States
Allegiance Union
Branch Cavalry

The 6th West Virginia Volunteer Cavalry Regiment was a cavalry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Service

The 6th West Virginia Cavalry was organized from the 3rd West Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment on January 26, 1864. The regiment absorbed the remaining battalion of the 5th West Virginia Volunteer Cavalry Regiment on December 14, 1864.

The 6th West Virginia mustered out at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas on May 22, 1866.

Casualties

The 6th West Virginia Cavalry suffered 5 officers and 28 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded in battle and 2 officers and 201 enlisted men dead from disease for a total of 236 fatalities.

Commanders

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