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Home Town Darke County
Last Address Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia
Date of Passing Mar 28, 1919
Location of Interment Greenwood Cemetery - Wheeling, West Virginia
7th WEST VIRGINIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY REGIMENT.
Reputedly, the "Most Embattled of the West Virginia Regiments", the "Bloody Seventh" was organized at Portland, Cameron, Grafton, Wheeling, Morgantown and Greenland, West Virginia, from July 16 to December 3, 1861. Attached to the Railroad District, West Virginia, to January, 1862. 1st Brigade, Landers' Division, Army Potomac, to March, 1862. 1st Brigade, Shields' 2nd Division, Banks' 5th Army Corps and Dept. of the Shenandoah, to May, 1862. 1st Brigade, Shields' Division, Dept. of the Rappahannock, to June, 1862. Kimball's Independent Brigade, 2nd Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to September, 1862. 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 2nd Army Corps, Army Potomac, to March, 1864. 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, 2nd Army Corps, to June, 1865.
Other Comments:
The 7th West Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment lost during its service 9 Officers and 133 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 4 Officers and 154 Enlisted men by disease. Total 300.
Civil War/Gettysburg Campaign (1863)/Cemetery Hill 2 July 1863
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Description Cemetery Hill, a critical part of the Union army defensive line, described as the "fish-hook" line, was a concentration point for three major roads critical for keeping the army supplied and blocking Confederate advance on Baltimore or Washington, D
My Participation in This Battle or Operation
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Personal Memories
Memories On the second day of the Battle of Gettysburg, the 7th West Virginia Volunteer Infantry helped to repulse the assault of Confederate Major General Edward Johnson's division (II Corps, Army of Northern Virginia) on Cemetery Hill.
