List of Medal of Honor recipients from the 1st West Virginia Cavalry

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, 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]

NameRankCo.Place of actionDate of actionAction
James F. AdamsPrivateDNineveh, VirginiaNovember 12, 1864Flag capture[3]
Thomas AndersonCorporalIAppomattox Station, VirginiaApril 8, 1865Flag capture[4][Note 1]
Wilmon W. BlackmarFirst LieutenantHFive Forks, VirginiaApril 1, 1865Leadership[6][7]
Hugh P. BoonCaptainBSayler's Creek, VirginiaApril 6, 1865Flag capture[8][9]
Richard BourySergeantCCharlottesville, VirginiaMarch 5, 1865Flag capture[10]
Charles E. CapehartMajor—Monterey Pass, VirginiaJuly 4, 1863Leadership[11][12]
Henry CapehartColonel—Greenbrier River, West VirginiaMay 22, 1864Rescue[13][14]
Francis M. CunninghamFirst SergeantHSayler's Creek, VirginiaApril 6, 1865Flag capture[15][16][17]
William HoultonCommissary Sergeant—Sayler's Creek, VirginiaApril 6, 1865Flag capture[18]
Archibald H. Rowand, Jr.PrivateKVirginiaMarch 1865Carrying dispatches[19][20][21]
Charles SchornChief BuglerMAppomattox Station, VirginiaApril 8, 1865Flag capture[22][23]
Emisire ShahanCorporalASayler's Creek, VirginiaApril 6, 1865Flag capture[24]
Levi ShoemakerSergeantANineveh, VirginiaNovember 12, 1864Flag capture[25]
Daniel A. WoodsPrivateKSayler's Creek, VirginiaApril 6, 1865Flag capture[26]

Notes

Footnotes

  1. ↑ The Lee Chapel and Museum of Washington and Lee University has, at times, displayed the Confederate flag captured by Corporal Thomas Anderson. The museum identifies the flag as Battle Flag no. 356[5]

Citations

  1. ↑ "First Loyal Virginia Troops For the Union Cause". George Tyler Moore Center for the Study of the Civil War - Shepherd University. Retrieved 2017-07-20.
  2. ↑ "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.
  3. ↑ "Medal of Honor Recipients - Civil War (A-F) Adams, James F." U.S. Army Center of Military History. Retrieved 2017-12-22.
  4. ↑ "Medal of Honor Recipients - Civil War (A-F) Anderson, Thomas". U.S. Army Center of Military History. Retrieved 2017-12-23.
  5. ↑ "The History of the Flags in Lee Chapel and Museum". Washington and Lee University. Retrieved 2017-12-23.
  6. ↑ "Medal of Honor Recipients - Civil War (A-F) Blackmar, Wilson W." U.S. Army Center of Military History. Retrieved 2017-12-21.
  7. ↑ Beyer & Keydel 1907, p. 511
  8. ↑ "Medal of Honor Recipients - Civil War (A-F) Boon, Hugh P." U.S. Army Center of Military History. Retrieved 2017-12-21.
  9. ↑ Beyer & Keydel 1907, p. 531
  10. ↑ "Medal of Honor Recipients - Civil War (A-F) Boury, Richard". U.S. Army Center of Military History. Retrieved 2017-12-22.
  11. ↑ "Congressional Medal of Honor Society - Capehart, Charles E." Congressional Medal of Honor Society. Retrieved 2017-11-17.
  12. ↑ Wittenberg, Petruzzi & Nugent 2008, p. 65
  13. ↑ "Medal of Honor Recipients - Civil War (A-F) Capehart, Henry". U.S. Army Center of Military History. Retrieved 2017-12-20.
  14. ↑ Beyer & Keydel 1907, pp. 344–346
  15. ↑ "Medal of Honor Recipients - Civil War (A-F) Cunningham, Francis M." U.S. Army Center of Military History. Retrieved 2017-12-21.
  16. ↑ Beyer & Keydel 1907, pp. 528–530
  17. ↑ Wallace 1897, pp. 641-643
  18. ↑ "Medal of Honor Recipients - Civil War (G-L) Houlton, William". U.S. Army Center of Military History. Retrieved 2017-12-21.
  19. ↑ "Secrets of a Union spy". Mark Roth, (Pittsburgh) Post-Gazette assistant managing editor. Retrieved 2017-12-24.
  20. ↑ "West Virginia History on View - Union Army Private Archibald H. Rowand Jr., in Confederate Uniform". West Virginia University. Retrieved 2017-12-24.
  21. ↑ Wallace 1897, pp. 426-428
  22. ↑ "Medal of Honor Recipients - Civil War (S-Z) Schorn, Charles". U.S. Army Center of Military History. Retrieved 2017-12-23.
  23. ↑ Speicher 2009, p. 259
  24. ↑ "Medal of Honor Recipients - Civil War (S-Z) Shahan, Emisire". U.S. Army Center of Military History. Retrieved 2017-12-21.
  25. ↑ "Medal of Honor Recipients - Civil War (S-Z) Shoemaker, Levi". U.S. Army Center of Military History. Retrieved 2017-12-22.
  26. ↑ "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.
  • 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.
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