title: 5th West Virginia Cavalry Regiment
text: # 5th West Virginia Cavalry Regiment
  
  The 5th West Virginia Cavalry Regiment was a cavalry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
  
  ## Service
  
  The 5th West Virginia Cavalry Regiment was organized from the 2nd West Virginia Infantry Regiment on January 26, 1864. The regiment was consolidated into a single battalion at Charles Town, West Virginia, in September 1864 and was absorbed by the 6th West Virginia Cavalry Regiment on December 14, 1864.
  
  ## Casualties
  
  The 5th West Virginia Cavalry Regiment suffered 3 officers and 68 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded in battle and 118 enlisted men dead from disease for a total of 189 fatalities.
  
  ## Commanding officers
  
  * Colonel George R. Latham
  