11th West Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment

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11th West Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment

Flag of West Virginia
Active October 29, 1861 to June 17, 1865
Country United States
Allegiance Union
Branch Infantry
Battles/wars Battle of Cloyd's Mountain
Battle of Cedar Creek
Siege of Petersburg

The 11th West Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

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[edit] Service

The 11th West Virginia was organzed at Elizabeth, Wheeling, Burning Springs, Ravenswood, Kanawha Station, and Point Pleasant in western Virginia between October 29, 1861 and October 8, 1862.

The 10th West Virginia was mustered out on June 17, 1865.

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The 11th West Virginia suffered 4 Officers and 63 enlisted men killed in battle or died from wounds, and 148 enlisted men dead from disease for a total of 215 fatalities.[1]

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