The 8th West Virginia Infantry Regiment was organized in Buffalo, West Virginia in November 1861 and attached to the District of the Kanawha, with men recruited from the central and southern counties of Braxton, Clay, Jackson, Kanawha, Putnam, Raleigh, Fayette, Boone, Logan and Wyoming.

The unit fought at the Battle of Cross Keys under Lt.

Colonel Lucien Loeser as a part of Cluseret's Brigade, alongside the 60th Ohio under overall command of Col. Gustave Paul Clusteret, a French officer who served with the Union Army.

During May 1863, the regiment was converted to a mounted infantry by Brigadier General William W. Averell.

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