22nd Virginia Cavalry Regiment

22nd Virginia Cavalry Regiment
Flag of Virginia, 1861
Active	October 1863 – April 1865
Disbanded	April 1865
Country	Confederacy
Allegiance	Confederate States of America
Branch	Confederate States Army
Type	Cavalry
Engagements	Valley Campaigns of 1864 Battle of Five Forks

The 22nd Virginia Cavalry Regiment was a cavalry regiment raised in Virginia for service in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. It fought mostly in southwestern Virginia, East Tennessee, and the Shenandoah Valley.^[1]

Virginia's 22nd Cavalry Regiment completed its organization in October, 1863, and was sometimes called "Bowen's Regiment Virginia Mounted Riflemen," having been raised by Col. Henry S. Bowen, formerly of the 188th (Tazewell County Militia. The unit served in William Lowther Jackson's and John McCausland's Brigade and confronted the Federals in Tennessee, western Virginia (including newly created West Virginia), and the Shenandoah Valley. During April, 1865, it disbanded. The field officers were Colonel Henry S. Bowen, Lieutenant Colonel John T. Radford, and Major Henry F. Kendrick. A Union soldier, Sergeant Levi Shoemaker, was awarded the Medal of Honor for capturing the regiment's flag during an engagement at Nineveh, Warren County, Virginia on November 12, 1864.^[2] Two members would later serve one term each in the Virginia General Assembly, John C. Stanfield who would also serve as superintendent of the Washington Alms House before returning to Washington County and serving in the House of Delegates in 1906, and William Orville Moore representing Wythe County in 1912.^[3]