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Subject: 1st West Virginia Cavalry
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 14:20:13 EST

Hello, Everyone:

I am writing to announce my latest (and LAST) comprehensive Civil War page,
The First West Virginia Cavalry.

Soldiers of this regiment were recruited from western PENNSYLVANIA, eastern
OHIO and WEST VIRGINIA.

There are about 350 UNCLAIMED Civil War medals in the West Virginia State
Archives that were issued to 1st WV Cavalry soldiers. This is incredible and
I am thinking it is possibly because descendants may not know to look for
their Ohio & Pennsylvania ancestors' Civil War service in West Virginia.

I have chosen to put the files in the Wheeling Area Genealogical Society
space but they will be linked from my other pages (Marshall, Calhoun &
Pleasants County WVGenWeb) , as well. I invite all of you to add a link from
your own homepage.

http://www.rootsweb.com/~wvwags/1wvc/1wvc-frm.htm

< <A HREF="http://www.rootsweb.com/~wvwags/1wvc/1wvc-frm.htm"><First WV Cavalry</A>

The "cover" is an original drawing by a descendant of a 1st Cav soldier. In
addition to the roster, histories, pension files, etc., contents will
include photos and information from the vast Civil War collection of Dave
Aeberli of Pittsburgh, also a descendant of a 1st WV Cavalry soldier.

And, in the same format as my 12th WV Infantry page, there will eventually
be a page for each of the 1000+ soldiers. I have info on quite a few
already and I invite you all to submit pension files, photos, bios, etc.

The ROSTER contains the links to the individual soldiers' pages - - This is
a very large file and if it is too slow, I may have to consider splitting it
up.

This regiment is of importance to me because my husband's gr-gr-grandfather
was killed in battle while serving with it.

Also, I have become a collector of WV Civil War items, so please contact me
if you have anything you would like to sell.

Thanks very much!
Linda Cunningham Fluharty

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