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4th West Virginia Cavalry Regiment
Active July 1863 to June 23, 1864
Country United States
Allegiance Union
Branch Cavalry

The 4th West Virginia Cavalry Regiment was a cavalry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Service[]

The 4th West Virginia Cavalry Regiment was enlisted in Parkersburg and Wheeling in western Virginia between July and August 1863 for one year's service.

The regiment was mustered out on June 23, 1864.

Casualties[]

The 4th West Virginia Cavalry Regiment suffered 30 enlisted men dead from disease for a total of 30 deaths.[1]

Officers[]

Colonel[]

Lieutenant-Colonel[]

  • Samuel W. Snider

Majors[]

  • Nathan Goff, Jr. (formerly of the 6th West Virginia Cavalry). He was captured during the action at Moorefield, when pinned under his fallen horse, and sent to Libby Prison in Richmond, Virginia where he was held in close confinement as a hostage for the captured Confederate Major Thomas D. Armsey. He and Armsey were eventually exchanged and President Abraham Lincoln sent for Goff, who described the conditions in Confederate prison camps, prompting Lincoln to arrange further exchanges.
  • Charles F. Howes
  • James A. Smith

QM Sergeants[]

  • Octavius C. Bray Company A 1863-65

First Sergeant[]

  • Montgomery Hager Company K

References[]

See also[]

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