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West Virginia 10th Volunteer Infantry (Union)

3/12/62

Organized - West Virginia 10th Volunteer Infantry - West Virginia

9/19/64

Battle - Third Winchester - Frederick County, Virginia; Winchester, Virginia

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Third Winchester

To clear the Shenandoah River valley of Confederates, Maj. Gen. Phil Sheridan moved on Winchester in mid-September 1864. Sheridan's force of over 39,000 men was more than twice the size of Maj. Gen. Jubal Early's Confederate army defending the valley. After Brig. Gen. Joseph Kershaw's division left Winchester to rejoin Robert E. Lee's army at Petersburg, Early renewed his raids on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad at Martinsburg in the lower valley, dispersing his four remaining infantry divisions. On Septem…READ MORE

10/19/64

Leadership Change - Regiment - Lieutenant Colonel Moses S. Hall

Lieutenant ColonelMoses S. Hall

10/19/64

Leadership Change - Brigade - Colonel Milton Wells

10/19/64

Leadership Change - Division - Colonel Joseph Thoburn

10/19/64

Battle - Cedar Creek - Frederick County, Virginia; Shenandoah County, Virginia; Warren County, Virginia

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Cedar Creek

Also known as: Cedar Creek, Belle GroveREAD MORE

4/2/65

Battle - Third Petersburg - Dinwiddie County, Virginia; Petersburg, Virginia

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Third Petersburg

With the Confederate defeat at Five Forks on April 1st, Lieut. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and Maj. Gen. George Meade ordered a general assault against the Petersburg lines by the Second, Ninth, Sixth and Twenty-Fourth Corps to take place April 2nd. In the pre-dawn darkness, the Union infantry gained a successful breakthrough where Maj. Gen. Horatio G. Wright's advancing Sixth Corps met the Confederate lines held by Maj. Gen. A. P. Hill near the Boydton Plank Road. Hill was killed trying to reach his troops in t…READ MORE

4/9/65

Battle - Appomattox Court House - Appomattox Court House, Virginia

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Appomattox Court House

Between 26,000 and 28,000 Confederate soldiers surrendered and were paroled.READ MORE

8/9/65

Mustered Out - West Virginia 10th Volunteer Infantry - West Virginia

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