1st Indiana Cavalry Regiment Companies I & K

 

While the remainder of the 1st Indiana Cavalry Regiment served in the Western Theater, two companies served in the east and never met the rest of the regiment.

 

Timeline of Stewart's Independent Cavalry Company, or Company I, 1st Indiana Cavalry

April 25, 1861

Organized at Terre Haute, Ind. for one year's State service

July 4

Mustered in for three years' service

August 20

Assigned to 1st Indiana Cavalry as Company L, but served detached from Regiment entire term.

July

Served in Dept. of West Virginia as Escort to Gen. Rosecrans

November 1861 -
March, 1862

At Headquarters Dept. of Western Virginia

May - June

Dept. of the Mountains

July

At Headquarters 1st Corps, Army of Virginia

September

At Headquarters 11th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac

October 1863

At Headquarters Army of the Potomac

July 3, 1864

Old members mustered out

May 31, 1865

Veterans and Recruits mustered out

Timeline of Bracken's Independent Company Cavalry, or Company K, 1st Indiana Cavalry

June 20, 1861

Organized at Indianapolis, Ind.

July 9

Mustered in

August 20

Assigned to 1st Indiana Cavalry as Company K, but served detached from Regiment entire time.

July

Served in the Dept. of West Virginia as Escort to Gen. Rosecrans

November

At Headquarters Dept. of Western Virginia and Dept. of the Mountains

December 13

Camp Allegheny, Greenbrier, W. Va.

December 31, 1861 -
January 6, 1862

Expedition to Huntersville

January 3

Huntersville

July

At Headquarters 1st Army Corps, Army of Virginia

September

At Headquarters 11th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac

November 9

Charge into Fredericksburg, Va.

October, 1863

At Headquarters Army of the Potomac

January to May, 1864

Duty at Glymont, Md. on lower Potomac

May

Joined Army of the Potomac at White House, and duty at Headquarters of Gen. Meade

June 23

Old members mustered out

May 31, 1865

Veterans and Recruits mustered out