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This List of Medal of Honor recipients from the
1st West Virginia Volunteer Cavalry Regiment is sortable by recipient, rank, company, place, date, and reason for the award. The 1st West Virginia Volunteer Cavalry Regiment served in the
Union Army during the
American Civil War .
Background
The
First Virginia Cavalry , later to be renamed the 1st West Virginia Cavalry Regiment, was formed during the summer and fall of 1861 to fight for the Union in the
American Civil War . (Do not confuse this regiment with the Confederate
1st Virginia Cavalry .) Although it started slowly, it became one of the most effective of all West Virginia regiments. The regiment had more
Medal of Honor recipients than any other
West Virginia regiment .
[1] The majority of its fighting took place in
Virginia and what is now
West Virginia , although the regiment also fought in
Maryland and
Pennsylvania (including the
Battle of Gettysburg ). The regiment participated in most of
Sheridan's Shenandoah Valley Campaign , and was present at
Robert E. Lee 's surrender of the
Army of Northern Virginia at
Appomattox . The regiment mustered out July 8, 1865. It lost 10 officers and 71 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded, and 126 enlisted men died from disease.
[2]
Name
Rank
Co.
Place of action
Date of action
Action
James F. Adams
Private
D
Nineveh , Virginia
November 12, 1864
Flag capture
[3]
Thomas Anderson
Corporal
I
Appomattox Station , Virginia
April 8, 1865
Flag capture
[4]
[Note 1]
Wilmon W. Blackmar
First Lieutenant
H
Five Forks , Virginia
April 1, 1865
Leadership
[6]
[7]
Hugh P. Boon
Captain
B
Sayler's Creek , Virginia
April 6, 1865
Flag capture
[8]
[9]
Richard Boury
Sergeant
C
Charlottesville, Virginia
March 5, 1865
Flag capture
[10]
Charles E. Capehart
Major
—
Monterey Pass , Virginia
July 4, 1863
Leadership
[11]
[12]
Henry Capehart
Colonel
—
Greenbrier River , West Virginia
May 22, 1864
Rescue
[13]
[14]
Francis M. Cunningham
First Sergeant
H
Sayler's Creek , Virginia
April 6, 1865
Flag capture
[15]
[16]
[17]
William Houlton
Commissary Sergeant
—
Sayler's Creek , Virginia
April 6, 1865
Flag capture
[18]
Archibald H. Rowand, Jr.
Private
K
Virginia
March 1865
Carrying dispatches
[19]
[20]
[21]
Charles Schorn
Chief Bugler
M
Appomattox Station , Virginia
April 8, 1865
Flag capture
[22]
[23]
Emisire Shahan
Corporal
A
Sayler's Creek , Virginia
April 6, 1865
Flag capture
[24]
Levi Shoemaker
Sergeant
A
Nineveh, Virginia
November 12, 1864
Flag capture
[25]
Daniel A. Woods
Private
K
Sayler's Creek , Virginia
April 6, 1865
Flag capture
[26]
Notes
Footnotes
Citations
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"First Loyal Virginia Troops For the Union Cause" . George Tyler Moore Center for the Study of the Civil War – Shepherd University. Archived from
the original on 2011-07-18. Retrieved 2017-07-20 .
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"Battle Unit Details – Union West Virginia Volunteers – 1st Regiment, West Virginia Cavalry" . National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2017-08-13 .
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"Medal of Honor Recipients – Civil War (A–F) Adams, James F." U.S. Army Center of Military History. Retrieved 2017-12-22 .
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"Medal of Honor Recipients – Civil War (A–F) Anderson, Thomas" . U.S. Army Center of Military History. Retrieved 2017-12-23 .
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"The History of the Flags in Lee Chapel and Museum" . Washington and Lee University. Retrieved 2017-12-23 .
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"Medal of Honor Recipients – Civil War (A–F) Blackmar, Wilson W." U.S. Army Center of Military History. Retrieved 2017-12-21 .
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Beyer & Keydel 1907 , p. 511
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"Medal of Honor Recipients – Civil War (A–F) Boon, Hugh P." U.S. Army Center of Military History. Retrieved 2017-12-21 .
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Beyer & Keydel 1907 , p. 531
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"Medal of Honor Recipients – Civil War (A–F) Boury, Richard" . U.S. Army Center of Military History. Retrieved 2017-12-22 .
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"Congressional Medal of Honor Society – Capehart, Charles E." Congressional Medal of Honor Society. Retrieved 2017-11-17 .
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Wittenberg, Petruzzi & Nugent 2008 , p. 65
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"Medal of Honor Recipients – Civil War (A–F) Capehart, Henry" . U.S. Army Center of Military History. Retrieved 2017-12-20 .
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Beyer & Keydel 1907 , pp. 344–346
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"Medal of Honor Recipients – Civil War (A–F) Cunningham, Francis M." U.S. Army Center of Military History. Retrieved 2017-12-21 .
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Beyer & Keydel 1907 , pp. 528–530
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Wallace 1897 , pp. 641–643
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"Medal of Honor Recipients – Civil War (G–L) Houlton, William" . U.S. Army Center of Military History. Retrieved 2017-12-21 .
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"Secrets of a Union spy" . Mark Roth, (Pittsburgh) Post-Gazette assistant managing editor. Retrieved 2017-12-24 .
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"West Virginia History on View – Union Army Private Archibald H. Rowand Jr., in Confederate Uniform" . West Virginia University. Retrieved 2017-12-24 .
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Wallace 1897 , pp. 426–428
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"Medal of Honor Recipients – Civil War (S–Z) Schorn, Charles" . U.S. Army Center of Military History. Retrieved 2017-12-23 .
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Speicher 2009 , p. 259
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"Medal of Honor Recipients – Civil War (S–Z) Shahan, Emisire" . U.S. Army Center of Military History. Retrieved 2017-12-21 .
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"Medal of Honor Recipients – Civil War (S–Z) Shoemaker, Levi" . U.S. Army Center of Military History. Retrieved 2017-12-22 .
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"Medal of Honor Recipients – Civil War (S–Z) Woods, Daniel A." U.S. Army Center of Military History. Retrieved 2017-12-21 .
References
Beyer, Walter F.; Keydel, Oscar F. (1907).
Deeds of Valor : from Records in the Archives of the United States Government ; How American Heroes Won the Medal of Honor ; History of our Recent Wars and Explorations, from Personal Reminiscences and Records of Officers and Enlisted Men who were Rewarded by Congress for Most Conspicuous Acts of Bravery on the Battle-field, on the High Seas and in Arctic Explorations Volume I . Detroit: Perrien-Keydel Co.
OCLC
3898179 .
Speicher, James (2009). Sumter Flying Artillery : A Civil War History of the Eleventh Battalion Georgia Light Artillery . Gretna, Louisiana: Pelican Publishing Co.
ISBN
978-1-45561-267-3 .
OCLC
922577268 .
Wallace, Lew (1897).
The Story of American heroism : Thrilling Narratives of Personal Adventures During the Great Civil War, as Told by the Medal Winners and Roll of Honor Men . Springfield, Ohio: J. W. Jones.
OCLC
11816985 .
Wittenberg, Eric J.; Petruzzi, J. David; Nugent, Michael F. (2008). One Continuous Fight: the Retreat from Gettysburg and the Pursuit of Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, July 4–14, 1863 . New York: Savas Beatie.
ISBN
978-1-9327144-3-2 .
OCLC
185031178 .