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.

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

See also Medals of Honor for West Virginia Soldiers West Virginia Units in the Civil War West Virginia in the Civil War

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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.