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Virginia 8th Cavalry (Confederate)

10/11/1861

Battle - Guyandotte, West Virginia

29/03/1862

Organized - Virginia 8th Cavalry - Virginia

23/05/1862

Battle - Lewisburg, West Virginia

24/05/1862

Battle - Seven Pines, Virginia

31/05/1862

Battle - Seven Pines - Henrico County, Virginia

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Seven Pines

Gen. Joseph E. Johnston withdrew his army from the Virginia Peninsula toward the Confederate capital of Richmond as Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan's army pursued him. By the end of May, Johnston held a defensive position seven miles east of the city on the Richmond and York River Railroad. McClellan's army facing Johnston straddled the Chickahominy River and stretched south. Capturing the initiative from his Union foe, Johnston attempted to overwhelm two Federal corps isolated south of the river. The Confed…READ MORE

28/03/1863

Battle - Hurricane Bridge, West Virginia

30/03/1863

Battle - Point Pleasant, West Virginia

27/06/1863

Battle - Shelbyville, Tennessee

06/11/1863

Battle - Rogersville - Rogersville, Tennessee

10/12/1863

Battle - Morristown, Tennessee

18/12/1863

Battle - Rutledge, Tennessee

03/01/1864

Battle - Jonesville, Virginia

24/01/1864

Battle - Tazewell, Tennessee

08/05/1864

Battle - Spotsylvania Court House - Spotsylvania County, Virginia

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Spotsylvania Court House

Following the Battle of the Wilderness, Lieut. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant marched the Union army south with the hope of capturing Spotsylvania Court House and preventing Robert E. Lee's army from retreating further. Lee's Confederates, however, managed to get ahead of the Federals and block the road. Fighting began on May 8th, when the Union Fifth Corps under Maj. Gen. Gouverneur K. Warren and the Sixth Corps under Maj. Gen. John Sedgwick engaged Confederate Maj. Gen. Richard Anderson's First Corps at Laurel Hi…READ MORE

09/05/1864

Battle - Cloyd's Mountain - Pulaski County, Virginia

05/06/1864

Battle - Piedmont - Augusta County, Virginia

17/06/1864

Battle - Lynchburg - Lynchburg, Virginia

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Lynchburg

The Union threat forced Robert E. Lee to dispatch General Jubal Early with his Second Corps of the Army of Northern Virginia to defend Lynchburg. On June 17 and 18, the opposing forces clashed, resulting in a Union retreat all the way into West Virginia, leaving the Valley open for another Confederate advance into the North.READ MORE

22/06/1864

Battle - Salem, Virginia

07/07/1864

Battle - Frederick, Maryland

07/07/1864

Battle - Middletown, Maryland

09/07/1864

Battle - Monocacy - Frederick County, Maryland

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Monocacy

After marching north down the Shenandoah Valley from Lynchburg, the Confederate army of Lt. Gen. Jubal A. Early side-stepped the Federal garrison at Harpers Ferry and crossed the Potomac River at Shepherdstown into Maryland on July 5-6th, 1864. On July 9th, a makeshift Union force under Maj. Gen. Lew Wallace attempted to stop Early's invading Confederate divisions along the Monocacy River, just east of Frederick. The strategic area was near the junction of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and the Georgetown…READ MORE

10/07/1864

Battle - Monocacy, Maryland

11/07/1864

Leadership Change - Brigade - Brigadier General Bradley T. Johnson

Brigadier GeneralBradley T. Johnson

11/07/1864

Battle - Fort Stevens - District of Columbia, DC

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Fort Stevens

After his victory over Maj. Gen. Lew Wallace at the Battle of Monocacy in central Maryland on July 9th, Confederate Maj. Gen. Jubal A. Early pressed his advantage and moved south toward the Union capital in Washington, DC. On July 11th, Early's exhausted Confederates reached the outskirts of Washington near Silver Spring. Skirmishers advanced to feel the fortifications that encircled the city, which at the time were manned only by Home Guards, clerks, and convalescent troops. During the night, Union reinfo…READ MORE

02/08/1864

Battle - Old Town, Maryland

19/09/1864

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

21/09/1864

Battle - Fisher's Hill - Shenandoah County, Virginia

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Fisher's Hill

Confederate Maj. Gen. Jubal Early's Army of the Valley, bloodied by its defeat at the Third Battle of Winchester on September 19th, retreated 20 miles up the valley and took a defensive position in an east-west line across Fisher's Hill, southwest of Strasburg. Maj. Gen. Phillip Sheridan's Army of the Shenandoah, in accordance with Lieut. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's orders, aggressively pursued Early. Sheridan, outnumbering Early about three to one, noted that the right of the Confederate line was anchored o…READ MORE

26/09/1864

Battle - Port Republic, Virginia

19/10/1864

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

12/11/1864

Battle - Newtown, Virginia

01/04/1865

Leadership Change - Brigade - Brigadier General William H. F. Payne, and Colonel Reuben B. Boston

Brigadier GeneralWilliam H. F. Payne

ColonelReuben B. Boston

01/04/1865

Leadership Change - Brigade - Brigadier General William H. F. Payne

Brigadier GeneralWilliam H. F. Payne

01/04/1865

Battle - Five Forks - Five Forks, Virginia

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Five Forks

The Union victory along the White Oak Road on March 31st threatened to destabilize the entire Confederate line west of Petersburg. General Robert E. Lee ordered Maj. Gen. George Pickett with his infantry division and the cavalry divisions of Col. Thomas Munford, Maj. Gen. W.H.F. Lee, and Maj. Gen Thomas Rosser to hold the vital crossroads of Five Forks, along the White Oak Road five miles west of the previous fighting there. Pickett's defensive line was not well constructed, and much of his cavalry force w…READ MORE

09/04/1865

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

09/04/1865

Mustered Out - Virginia 8th Cavalry - Virginia

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