6th West Virginia Cavalry Regiment explained

Unit Name:	6th West Virginia Cavalry Regiment
Dates:	January 26, 1864, to May 22, 1866
Country:	United States
Allegiance:	Union
Branch:	Cavalry

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

Service

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

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

Casualties

The 6th West Virginia Cavalry Regiment 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.http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unwvcav.htm#6thcav

Commanders

• Colonel David T. Hewes (Dismissed February 15, 1864)
• Lt. Colonel Frank W. Thompson

See also

• West Virginia Units in the Civil War
• West Virginia in the Civil War

References

• The Civil War Archive

Further reading

• Holliday, George H. (1883). On the Plains in '65: Twelve Months in the Volunteer Cavalry Service, among the Indians of Nebraska, Colorado, Dakota, Wyoming, and Montana. Publisher not identified. https://www.loc.gov/item/11021726/
• Holliday, George H. ed. Glenn V. Longacre. (2021). On the Plains in '65: The 6th West Virginia Volunteer Cavalry in the West. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press. ISBN 9780821424285.
• Book: Lang, Theodore F.. Loyal West Virginia from 1861 to 1865. Deutsch Publishing. 1895. Baltimore, Maryland. 779093.
• Book: McDermott, John D.. Circle of Fire: The Indian War of 1865. Stackpole Books. 2003. 0-8117-0061-5. Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania.