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Company Unknown
Aaron Barker
- Private
No comments
Contact Name: Kenda Pyle Shultz
Date Added: 3/17/2008

Company Unknown
Shelby Pindall Barker
- Private
No comments
Contact Name: Kenda Pyle Shultz
Date Added: 3/17/2008

Company Unknown
James Russell
Rank Unknown
No comments
Contact Name: mike russell
Date Added: 3/10/2002

Company A
Cornelius A. Pyles
Rank Unknown
No comments
Contact Name: Sharon Cooper
Date Added: 6/16/2006

Company A
Emisire Shahan
- 2nd Lieutenant
Emisire Shahan won the Congressional Medal of Honor for bravery at the Battle of Sailor's Creek by capturing the 76th Georgia's flag (CSA)
Contact Name: Luci Ross
Date Added: 2/6/2010

Company B
Watson Kerr
Rank Unknown
See Lindapages.com for more information about the First West Virginia Calvary, Watson lived in Greene County PA BUT served with West virginia. His two brothers isaiah ( Died in Fort Smith, Arkansas ) anD Nathaniel died in Muscatine, Ohio. All three brothers died after 1900. See more info about Watson Kerr on Find a Grave
Contact Name: C Kerr
Date Added: 5/1/2016

Company B
Matthew E. Mooney
Rank Unknown
Also in Co. L West Virginia.
Enlisted March 28th 1864
!st W.Virginia Calary was known as the Confederate State Line Forces.
He is my gr,grandfather
Contact Name: Robert Mooney
Date Added: 7/18/2007

Company C
John C. Holtz
- Private
Great-granduncle
Contact Name: Tina Holtz
Date Added: 2/17/2009

Company C
Charles Reading
- Corporal
Was my great-grandfather and his correct spelling of his last name was Redding
Contact Name: Irene Leininger
Date Added: 9/18/2008

Company D
George Washington Jeffers
- Sergeant
No comments
Contact Name: Scott Byrd
Date Added: 8/28/2008

Company D
James S Runyon
Rank Unknown
No comments
Contact Name: steve wilson
Date Added: 11/30/2013

Company E
Drury Badgley
- Corporal
Corporal, Company E, 1st West Virginia Cavalry.
Served from September 11, 1861 to November 20, 1864.
Suffered Chronic Diarhea.
Contact Name: Steve Badgley
Date Added: 9/21/2005

Company M
Gideon Weller
- Private
If any one has info on the 1st West Virginia Cal. Mounted Volunteers, co. M , and on Gideon Weller , my great great uncle, please email us with any info .Thank you.
Contact Name: Jim Geers
Date Added: 4/30/2006

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