title: 6th West Virginia Cavalry Regiment
text: # 6th West Virginia Cavalry Regiment
  
  The 6th West Virginia Cavalry Regiment was a cavalry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
  
  ## Service
  
  The 6th West Virginia Cavalry Regiment was organized from the 3rd West Virginia Infantry Regiment on January 26, 1864. The regiment absorbed the remaining battalion of the 5th West Virginia Cavalry Regiment on December 14, 1864.
  
  The 6th West Virginia Cavalry Regiment mustered out at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, on May 22, 1866.
  
  ## Casualties
  
  The 6th West Virginia Cavalry Regiment suffered 5 officers and 28 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded in battle and 2 officers and 201 enlisted men dead from disease for a total of 236 fatalities.
  
  ## Commanders
  
  * Colonel David T. Hewes (Dismissed February 15, 1864)
  * Lt. Colonel Frank W. Thompson
  