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The 1st West Virginia Veteran Infantry Regiment was an
infantry Infantry is a military specialization which engages in ground combat on foot. Infantry generally consists of light infantry, mountain infantry, motorized infantry & mechanized infantry, airborne infantry, air assault infantry, and marine i ...
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that served in the
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during the last year of the
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. It consisted primarily of veterans of older regiments whose terms of enlistment had expired.


History

The 1st West Virginia Veteran Volunteer Infantry Regiment was mustered into Federal service on November 9, 1864, composed of re-enlisting veterans from the 5th and the
9th West Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment {{Infobox military unit , unit_name= 9th West Virginia Infantry Regiment , image=Flag of West Virginia.svg , image_size = 100 , caption=Flag of West Virginia , dates= November 28, 1861, to November 9, 1864 , country= United States , allegiance= U ...
s. The regiment was mustered out of Federal service on July 21, 1865. Its lineage went on to be part of the 150th Cavalry Regiment in the modern-day
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.


Commanders

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William Henry Enochs


References


The Civil War Archive


See also

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West Virginia Units in the Civil War West or Occident is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from east and is the direction in which the Sun sets on the Earth. Etymology The word "west" is a Germanic word passed into some ...
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West Virginia in the Civil War The U.S. state of West Virginia was formed out of western Virginia and added to the Union as a direct result of the American Civil War (see History of West Virginia), in which it became the only modern state to have declared its independence ...
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