Union Regiments
Infantry
- 1st West Virginia Infantry (3 months service)
- 1st West Virginia Infantry
- 1st West Virginia Veteran Infantry
(consolidation of 5th and 9th West Virginia Infantry) - 2nd West Virginia Infantry
(later 5th West Virginia Cavalry) - 2nd West Virginia Veteran Infantry
(consolidation of 1st and 4th West Virginia Infantry) - 3rd West Virginia Infantry
(later 6th West Virginia Cavalry) - 4th West Virginia Infantry
- 5th West Virginia Infantry
- 6th West Virginia Infantry
- 7th West Virginia Infantry
- 8th West Virginia Infantry
(later 7th West Virginia Cavalry) - 9th West Virginia Infantry
- 10th West Virginia Infantry
- 11th West Virginia Infantry
- 12th West Virginia Infantry
- 13th West Virginia Infantry
- 14th West Virginia Infantry
- 15th West Virginia Infantry
- 16th West Virginia Infantry
- 17th West Virginia Infantry
- 45th Infantry, United States Colored Troops
- Independent Battalion Infantry
- 1st Independent Company Loyal Virginians
Cavalry
- 1st West Virginia Cavalry
- 2nd West Virginia Cavalry
- 3rd West Virginia Cavalry
- 4th West Virginia Cavalry
- 5th West Virginia Cavalry
(formerly 2nd West Virginia Infantry) - 6th West Virginia Cavalry
(formerly 3rd West Virginia Infantry) - 7th West Virginia Cavalry
(formerly 8th West Virginia Infantry)
Artillery
- Battery A, 1st West Virginia Light Artillery
- Battery B, 1st West Virginia Light Artillery
- Battery C, 1st West Virginia Light Artillery
- Battery D, 1st West Virginia Light Artillery
- Battery E, 1st West Virginia Light Artillery
- Battery F, 1st West Virginia Light Artillery
- Battery G, 1st West Virginia Light Artillery
- Battery H, 1st West Virginia Light Artillery
Other Units
17th West Virginia Infantry
The 17th Infantry Regiment was organized in September, 1864. It remained in General Kelley’s department during its term of enlistment. The regiment lost by disease and wounds 25 enlisted men.
[Source: Loyal West Virginia 1861-1865, by Theodore Lang]
Organized at Wheeling, W. Va., September 26, 1864, to February 25, 1865. Attached to Reserve Division, District of Harper’s Ferry, W. Va., west of Sleepy Hollow, to March, 1865. 1st Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, West Virginia, to June, 1865.
SERVICE.–Moved to Clarksburg, W. Va., September 27, 1864, and guarding railroad and on garrison duty till mustered out. Mustered out June 30, 1865.
[Source: Compendium of the War of the Rebellion, by Frederick Dyer]
Regiment lost during service 1 killed and 24 by disease. Total 25.
[Source: Compendium of the War of the Rebellion, by Frederick Dyer]
17th West Virginia Infantry from National Park Service
17th West Virginia Infantry from The Civil War in the East
17th West Virginia Infantry – West Virginia Adjutant General Papers at West Virginia State Archives
