3rd West Virginia Volunteer Cavalry Regiment
- 3rd West Virginia Volunteer Cavalry Regiment
Infobox Military Unit
unit_name= 3rd West Virginia Volunteer Cavalry Regiment
caption=Flag of West Virginia
dates= December, 1861 to June 23, 1865
country= United States
allegiance= Union
branch= Cavalry
equipment=
battles=
The 3rd West Virginia Volunteer Cavalry Regiment was a cavalry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
ervice
The 3rd West Virginia Cavalry was organized in western Virginia between December, 1861. Among the later recruits was Fremont, Ohio, dentist Everton Conger, who later in the war led the cavalry that tracked down and killed President Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth.
The regiment participated in the Grand Review of the Armies and then was mustered out on June 23, 1865.
Casualties
The 3rd West Virginia Cavalry suffered 6 officers and 40 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded in battle and 136 enlisted men dead from disease for a total of 182 fatalities. [http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unwvcav.htm#3rdcav]
Colonels
References
* [http://www.civilwararchive.com/unionwv.htm The Civil War Archive]
ee also
*West Virginia Units in the Civil War
*West Virginia in the Civil War
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