5th West Virginia Cavalry Regiment

The 5th West Virginia Cavalry Regiment was a cavalry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

5th West Virginia Cavalry Regiment
Flag of West Virginia
Active	January 26, 1864, to December 14, 1864
Country	United States
Allegiance	Union
Branch	Union Army
Type	Cavalry
Engagements	American Civil War Battle of Cloyd's Mountain Battle of Lynchburg

Service

The 5th West Virginia Cavalry Regiment was organized from the 2nd West Virginia Infantry Regiment on January 26, 1864. The regiment was consolidated into a single battalion at Charles Town, West Virginia, in September 1864 and was absorbed by the 6th West Virginia Cavalry Regiment on December 14, 1864.

Casualties

The 5th West Virginia Cavalry Regiment suffered 3 officers and 68 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded in battle and 118 enlisted men dead from disease for a total of 189 fatalities.

Commanding officers

• Colonel George R. Latham

See also

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

External links

• 5th Regiment, West Virginia Cavalry National Park Service entry

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 University Press. ISBN 9780821424285.
• Lang, Theodore, F. (1895). Loyal West Virginia from 1861 to 1865. Baltimore, Maryland: Deutsch Publishing. OCLC 779093.
• Reader, Frank S. (1890). History of the Fifth West Virginia Cavalry, formerly the Second Virginia Infantry, and of Battery G, First West Va. Light Artillery. New Brighton, Pennsylvania: Daily News. https://www.loc.gov/item/02016032/