The 4th Virginia Cavalry was a Confederate States Army cavalry regiment that was active from September 1861 to April 1865 during the American Civil War. It was organized from the men of Prince William, Chesterfield, Madison, Culpeper, Powhatan, Goochland, Hanover, Fauquier, and Buckingham Counties and of the city of Richmond, and it fought mostly with the Army of Northern Virginia during the war, first fighting in the 1862 Peninsula Campaign and ending the war at Appomattox on 9 April 1865, with only 2 members surrendering.