22nd Virginia Cavalry Regiment explained

Unit Name:22nd Virginia Cavalry Regiment
Dates:October 1863  - April 1865
Country:Confederacy
Allegiance: Confederate States of America
Type:Cavalry
Battles:Valley Campaigns of 1864
Battle of Five Forks
Disbanded:April 1865

The 22nd Virginia Cavalry Regiment was a cavalry regiment raised in Virginia for service in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. It fought mostly in southwestern Virginia, East Tennessee, and the Shenandoah Valley.[1]

Virginia's 22nd Cavalry Regiment completed its organization in October, 1863, and was sometimes called "Bowen's Regiment Virginia Mounted Riflemen," having been raised by Col. Henry S. Bowen, formerly of the 188th (Tazewell County Militia. The unit served in William Lowther Jackson's and John McCausland's Brigade and confronted the Federals in Tennessee, western Virginia (including newly created West Virginia), and the Shenandoah Valley. During April, 1865, it disbanded. The field officers were Colonel Henry S. Bowen, Lieutenant Colonel John T. Radford, and Major Henry F. Kendrick. A Union soldier, Sergeant Levi Shoemaker, was awarded the Medal of Honor for capturing the regiment's flag during an engagement at Nineveh, Warren County, Virginia on November 12, 1864. Two members would later serve one term each in the Virginia General Assembly, John C. Stanfield who would also serve as superintendent of the Washington Alms House before returning to Washington County and serving in the House of Delegates in 1906, and William Orville Moore representing Wythe County in 1912.[2]

Companies and officers

Sortable table
CompanyNicknameRecruited atFirst (then later) Commanding Officer[3]
ACaptain Fuller's CompanyTazewell CountyHiram F. Kendrick
Abram Fuller
BCompany B Tazewell CountyGordon W. Riffe
CCompany C Washington CountyJohn C. Stanfield
DCompany DRussell CountyMartin Ball
ECompany EWashington CountyRussell CountyWilliam M. Baldwin
Reese M. Baldwin
FCompany F Tazewell CountyWilliam Washington Brown
GCompany GWythe County
Carroll County
William O. Moore
HCompany HTazewell CountyBalaam W. Higginbotham
ICompany IRussell County
Tazewell County
William P. Samples

See also

Notes and References

  1. Jeffrey C. Weaver, 22nd Virginia Cavalry (Lynchburg, H.E. Howard Inc. 1991)
  2. Weaver pp. 99, 106
  3. derived from Weaver, pp. 9-11