Governor Rutherford B. Hayes to General ________, April 15, 1869

COLUMBUS, April 15, 1869.

DEAR GENERAL:— The Fifth Virginia was commanded by Colonel Zigler until about 1863, then by Colonel Tomlinson until the end of its first term of enlistment, and in 1864 reenlisted and became the First West Virginia Veteran Volunteers under Colonel Wm. H. Enochs. Its men would naturally claim the veteran regiment to be the same as the former Fifth, as it was principally composed of the officers and men of the Fifth, consolidated with the Ninth however.

Sincerely,

R. B. HAYES.

[Unidentified.]

SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 3, p. 60

Diary of Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes: Monday, October 31, 1864

 [The] Fifth and Ninth Virginia consolidated as First Veterans West Virginia Volunteer Infantry. A splendid regiment it will be. Rode with Captain Hicks to Strasburg and down the Shenandoah below (the) railroad bridge and back to camp. Rebels at New Market with six pieces of artillery left! A month of splendid weather for campaigning. In a court-martial case for cowardice at Winchester a soldier testifies of the accused: “He is a good soldier in camp, but does not relish gunpowder well from what I saw."

SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 531

Diary of Corporal Charles H. Lynch: October 22, 1864

Report comes to us of the death of our Brigade and Division Commander at Cedar Creek. We are all sorry that he was killed. He was one of the best officers in our corps. Colonel Thoburn, 1st West Virginia Regiment, a good friend to our regiment, a medical doctor by profession.

SOURCE: Charles H. Lynch, The Civil War Diary, 1862-1865, of Charles H. Lynch 18th Conn. Vol's, p. 131