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Contact Info
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/Petersburg Campaign (1864-65)/Siege of Petersburg
From Month/Year
June / 1864
To Month/Year
October / 1864
Description Not Specified
My Participation in This Battle or Operation
From Month/Year
June / 1864
To Month/Year
October / 1864
Last Updated: Mar 16, 2020
Personal Memories
Memories The 7th West Virginia, reduced to a battalion strength and issued the Henry Repeating Rifle, were employed as skirmishers during the Siege of Petersburg.
