
The 13th West Virginia Infantry Regiment was a Union Army infantry regiment from West Virginia which was active from October 1862 to 22 June 1865 during the American Civil War. The regiment was organized at Point Pleasant and Barboursville, and the regiment first fought at the Battle of Hurricane Bridge in West Virginia in 1863 before going on to play a key role in the Valley Campaigns of 1864, including at the Second Battle of Kernstown, where Union officer William McKinley was nearly killed while riding across the battlefront to deliver orders for the 13th West Virginia to attack. The regiment was mustered out at the end of the war.