Schambeck's Independent Cavalry Company

 

Timeline of Schambeck's Independent Cavalry Company

July 8, 1861

Organized at Chicago, Ills. under Captain Frederick Schambeck

July

Ordered to West Virginia and attached to 2nd Brigade, Army of Occupation, West Virginia at New Creek, Va.

September 10

Battle of Carnifex Ferry, Va. Attached to McCook's Brigade, District of the Kanawha, West Virginia

September 15-23

Moved to Camp Lookout and Big Sewell Mountain

October 6-9

To Camp Anderson

October 19-
November 16

Operations in Kanawha Valley and New River Region attached to 2nd Brigade, District of the Kanawha

October 19-21

New River

October 22

Moved to Gauley and duty there

December 9

Company assigned to Thielman's Cavalry Battalion as Company C but served detached

March, 1862

Assigned to 4th Brigade, Kanawha District, West Virginia

May 10

Advance on Virginia and Tennessee R. R.

May 11, 16, 17

Princeton

May 15

Wolf Creek

May-August

At Flat Top Mountain

July 15

Flat Top Mountain

August 13-14

Blue Stone

August 15-24

Movement to Washington, D.C. Assigned to 2nd Brigade, Kanawha Division, 9th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac

September 6-22

Maryland Campaign

September 12

Frederick City, Md.

September 14

South Mountain

September 16-17

Battle of Antietam

October 8

March to Clear Springs

October 9

To Hancock

October 14-
November 17

March to the Kanawha Valley. Attached to Kanawha Division, District of West Virginia, Dept. Ohio

December 1-10

Scouting in Boone, Wyoming and Logan Counties

December 25

Attached to 16th Illinois Cavalry as Company C but served detached

March, 1863

Attached to Averill's 4th Separate Brigade, 8th Army Corps, Middle Department

April

At Buckhannon

April 20-May 14

Operations against Imboden's Raid in West Virginia

May to July

At Buckhannon, Bulltown, Clarksburg, Parkersburg and Weston

June

Assigned to Averill's 4th Separate Brigade, West Virginia

July 2-7

Moved to Beverly

July 14

Beverly

July 16

Shanghai

July 18-19

Martinsburg

August 5-31

Averill's Raid through Hardy, Pendleton, Highland, Bath, Greenbrier and Pocahontas Counties

August 25-26

Rocky Gap, near White Sulphur Springs

October 14

Salt Lick Bridge

November 1-17

Averill's Raid from Beverly to Lewisburg and Virginia and Tennessee R. R.

November 5

Mill Point

November 6

Droop Mountain

November 10

Elk Mountain, near Hillsborough

December 8-25

Averill's Raid on Virginia and Tennessee R. R. Assigned to 2nd Brigade, 4th Division, West Virginia

December 13-17

March through Elk Mountain Pass to Beverly

Decmber

Duty at Beverly

April

Duty at Harper's Ferry and on Baltimore R. R. assigned to Reserve Division West Virginia

May 5

Duty on Baltimore and Ohio R. R., between Bloomfield and Piedmont

July 16, 1864

Mustered out