The 1st West Virginia Volunteer Cavalry Regiment served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It was organized in Wheeling, Clarksburg, and Morgantown in western Virginia (now West Virginia between July 10 and November 25, 1861. About one third of the members of the regiment were from what is now West Virginia, especially Wheeling. Others were from Pennsylvania, Ohio, and what is now the current state of Virginia. The unit was the 1st Regiment of Loyal Virginia Volunteer Cavalry until the state of West Virginia was created in 1863.