The 11th West Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment was an infantry

Infantry

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 regiment

Regiment

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 that served in the Union Army

Union Army

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 during the American Civil War

American Civil War

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Service

The 11th West Virginia was organized at Elizabeth

Elizabeth, West Virginia

Elizabeth is a town in Wirt County, West Virginia along the Little Kanawha River. The population was 994 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Wirt County. The townsite of Elizabeth was settled by William Beauchamp in 1796, and was known as "Beauchamp's Mills" until 1817, when it was named...

, Wheeling

Wheeling, West Virginia

Wheeling is a city in Ohio and Marshall counties in the U.S. state of West Virginia; it is the county seat of Ohio County. Wheeling is the principal city of the Wheeling Metropolitan Statistical Area...

, Burning Springs

Burning Springs, West Virginia

Burning Springs is an unincorporated town in Wirt County, West Virginia, USA. It takes its name from the natural gas which bubbled up through the spring and would burn when lit....

, Ravenswood

Ravenswood, West Virginia

Ravenswood is a city in Jackson County, West Virginia, United States, along the Ohio River. The population was 4,031 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Ravenswood is located at , along the Ohio River at the mouth of Sandy Creek....

, Kanawha Station, and Point Pleasant

Point Pleasant, West Virginia

Point Pleasant is a city in Mason County, West Virginia, United States, at the confluence of the Ohio and Kanawha rivers. The population was 4,637 at the 2000 census...

 in western Virginia

West Virginia

West Virginia is a state in the Appalachian and Southeastern regions of the United States, bordered by Virginia to the southeast, Kentucky to the southwest, Ohio to the northwest, Pennsylvania to the northeast and Maryland to the east...

  between October 29, 1861 and October 8, 1862.

Private George G. Moore

George G. Moore

George G. Moore was a Union Army soldier during the American Civil War. He received the Medal of Honor for gallantry during the Battle of Fisher's Hill near Strasburg, Virginia fought September 21–22, 1864...

 of Company D was awarded the Medal of Honor

Medal of Honor

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 for gallantry at the Battle of Fisher's Hill

Battle of Fisher's Hill

The Battle of Fisher's Hill was fought September 21–22, 1864, as part of the Valley Campaigns of 1864 during the American Civil War. Fisher's Hill is located near Strasburg, Virginia....

The 10th West Virginia was mustered out on June 17, 1865.

Casualties

The 11th West Virginia suffered 4 Officers and 63 enlisted men killed in battle or died from wounds, and 148 enlisted men dead from disease for a total of 215 fatalities.http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unwvinf2.htm#11thinf

Colonels

• Colonel John C. Rathbone, 1861 - 1863
• Colonel Daniel Frost (killed in action), 1863 -1864
• Colonel Van H. Bukey, 1864 - 1865