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The regiment fought in the Kanawha Valley Campaign of 1862 as part of a brigade commanded by Colonel Samuel A. Gilbert. Toward the end of the war, the regiment's re-enlisting veterans were consolidated with the 1st West Virginia Infantry Regiment (3 Year) on December 21, 1864, to form the 2nd West Virginia Veteran Infantry Regiment.
West Virginia, which seceded from Virginia to join the Union, provided the following units to the Union Army during the American Civil War.Units raised in the western counties prior to the creation of the state of West Virginia were often known as, "loyal Virginians," who formed the Restored government of Virginia in Wheeling, West Virginia in 1861, unanimously electing Francis H. Pierpont as ...
0–9. 1st Independent Company Loyal Virginians; 1st West Virginia Cavalry Regiment; 1st West Virginia Infantry Regiment; 1st West Virginia Veteran Infantry Regiment
On 21 August 1816 unspecified 4th Infantry Regiment companies were redesignated as Companies A and B, 4th Infantry Regiment. These companies would later be instrumental in the reorganization of 4th Infantry Regiment from the original organizational model, which included a headquarters element and 10 lettered companies with no battalion ...
67th Regiment Virginia Militia (Berkeley) 89th Regiment Virginia Militia (Morgan) 151st Regiment Virginia Militia (Mercer) 167th Regiment Virginia Militia (Wayne. Changed to Union in 1862 by Restored Govt of VA) 190th Regiment Virginia Militia (Wyoming) 1st VSL, Capt. Daniel Elkins Co, Co. B (Boone) 1st VSL. Capt. Greene W. Taylor's Co., Co. A ...
Ohio volunteers also filled regiments in the neighboring states of Kentucky and West Virginia. They composed most of the 1st and 2nd Kentucky Infantry, and large parts of 5 regiments credited to West Virginia, including the 2nd West Virginia Cavalry Regiment, the 4th and 5th West Virginia Infantry. [17]
Ohio mustered 230 regiments of infantry and cavalry, as well as 25 light artillery batteries and 5 independent companies of sharpshooters. Total casualties among these units numbered 35,475 men, more than 10% of all the Buckeyes in uniform during the war.
When the Civil War began Lightburn was appointed colonel of the 4th (West) Virginia Infantry Regiment on August 14, 1861. [3] Two of his brothers, Martin Van Buren Lightburn and Calvin Luther Lightburn, also joined this regiment and served with their older brother throughout the war.