The 1st lost 14 officers and 150 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 6 officers and 244 enlisted men by diseaseduring the Civil War. The regiment is honored along with the other regiments of the Wolverine Brigade by a monument at Gettysburg.
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August 21 to
September 6 |
Organized at Detroit, Mich. |
September 13 |
Mustered in |
September. 29 |
Left State for Washington, D.C.; Attached to Cavalry Brigade, Army of the Potomac |
December, 1861 |
Attached to Cavalry, Banks' Division, Army of the Potomac |
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February 25-May 6 |
Operations in Loudoun County, Va. |
February 27 |
Occupation of Loudoun Heights |
March 6 |
Berryville (Detachment) |
March 8 |
Capture of Leesburg |
March 12 |
Reconnaissance to Snicker's Gap |
March 23 |
Battle of Winchester |
March |
Cavalry, 1st Division, Banks' 5th Corps |
March 27 |
Strasburg |
April 1-2 |
Advance from Strasburg to Woodstock and Edenburg |
April 1 |
Salem and Woodstock |
April 1-2 |
Edenburg |
April 2 |
Thoroughfare Gap |
April 3 |
Greenwich |
April 4 |
Catlett's Station |
April 5 |
Warrenton |
April 7 |
Columbia Furnace |
April 11 |
White Plains |
April 14 |
Rectortown, Piedmont |
April 17 |
Mt. Jackson and New Market |
April, 1862 |
Hatch's Cavalry Brigade, Dept. of the Shenandoah |
April 27 |
McGaheysville |
May 15 |
Linden |
June, 1862 |
Cavalry Brigade, 2nd Corps, Army of Virginia |
May 15-June 17 |
Operations in the Shenandoah Valley |
May 24 |
Middletown |
May 24-26 |
Retreat to Williamsport |
May 25 |
Winchester |
June 7-8 |
Expedition from Gainesville |
June 24 |
Milford |
June 26 |
Strasburg Pike |
June 29-30 |
Reconnaissance to Front Royal |
June 30 |
Luray |
July 12 |
Culpeper Court House |
July 15 |
Orange Court House |
July 17 |
Reconnaissance to Madison Court House |
August 2 |
Reconnaissance to Orange Court House under Crawford |
August 9 |
Battle of Cedar Mountain |
August 13 |
Reconnaissance to Orange Court House |
August 16 |
Reconnaissance to Louisa Court House |
August 16 -
September 2 |
Pope's Campaign in Northern Virginia |
August 21-23 |
Fords of the Rappahannock |
August 30 |
Lewis Ford and Bull Run |
September |
Unassigned, Alexandria, Va. |
September |
Price's Cavalry Brigade, Military District of Washington; Duty in the Defenses of Washington, D C. |
September 5 |
Mouth of Monocacy |
November 25 |
Company "D" served detached as Provost Guard at Alexandria
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November 28-30 |
Reconnaissance to Berryville |
November 30 |
Snicker's Ferry, Berryville |
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January 8-10 |
Expedition to Catlett's and Rappahannock Station |
January 9 |
Brentsville |
February 14 |
Near Union Mills (Detachment) |
February |
22nd Army Corps, Dept. of Washington |
March |
1st Brigade, Stahel's Cavalry Division, 22nd Army Corps |
June |
Company "D" returns from detachment as Provost Guard at Alexandria |
June 30 |
Hanover, Pa. |
July 1-3 |
Battle of Gettysburg |
July 2 |
Hunterstown |
July 4 |
Fairfield Gap |
July 5 |
Smithburg |
July 6 |
Hagerstown and Williamsport, Md. |
July 8 |
Boonsboro |
July 11-13 |
Hagerstown |
July 14 |
Falling Waters |
| July 20 |
Ashby's Gap |
July 24 |
Battle Mountain, near Newby's Cross Roads |
July 25 |
Barbee's Cross Roads |
August 24 |
King George Court House |
September 1-3 |
Expedition to Port Conway |
September 1 |
Lamb's Creek Church, near Port Conway |
September 13-17 |
Advance from the Rappahannock to the Rapidan |
September 13 |
Stevensburg and Pony Mountain |
September 13 |
Culpeper Court House |
September 14-16 |
Somerville Ford |
September 21-23 |
Reconnaissance across the Rapidan |
September 21-22 |
White's Ford |
September 23 |
Robertson's Ford and near Liberty Mills |
October 8-22 |
Bristoe Campaign |
October 8-9-10 |
James City |
October 10 |
Bethesda Church |
October 11 |
Near Culpeper and Brandy Station |
October 14 |
Gainesville |
October 17-18 |
Groveton |
October 19 |
Gainesville, Catlett's Station and Buckland's Mills |
November 7-8 |
Advance to line of the Rappahannock |
November 26 -
October 2 |
Mine Run Campaign |
November 26 |
Morton's Ford |
November 26-27 |
Raccoon Ford |
October 13 to
December 29 |
4 new Companies organized |
December 21 |
Regiment absent on furlough |
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February 1 |
Returned to Camp Stoneman, D.C. and duty there |
February 6-7 |
Demonstration on the Rapidan |
February 15 |
Regiment consolidated to 8 Companies |
February 28-March 4 |
Kilpatrick's Raid on Richmond |
March 1 |
Fortifications of Richmond |
March, 1864 |
Attached to 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, Cavalry Corps, Army of the Potomac |
May 3-June 24 |
Campaign from the Rapidan to the James River |
May 5-6 |
Todd's Tavern |
May 5-7 |
Wilderness |
May 6 |
The Furnaces and Brock Road |
May 7-8 |
Todd's Tavern |
May 9-24 |
Sheridan's Raid to James River |
May 9 |
Beaver Dam Station |
May 11 |
Ground Squirrel Church and Yellow Tavern |
May 12 |
Meadow Bridge |
May 21 |
Hanover Court House |
May 26-28 |
On line of the Pamunkey |
May 27 |
Dabney's Ferry, Hanovertown Ferry, Hanovertown and Crump's Creek |
May 28 |
Haw's Shop and Aenon Church |
May 28-31 |
Totopotomoy |
May 30 |
Old Church and Mattadequin Creek |
May 31-June 1 |
Bethesda Church, Cold Harbor |
June 7-24 |
Sheridan's Trevillian Raid |
June 11-12 |
Trevillian Station |
June 12 |
Newark, or Mallory's Cross Roads |
June 21 |
Black Creek, or Tunstall's Station, and White House, or St. Peter's Church |
June 23 |
Jones' Bridge |
July 27-29 |
Demonstration north of the James River |
July 27-28 |
Deep Bottom |
August, 1864 |
1st Brigade, 1st Division, Cavalry Corps, Army of the Potomac |
August |
Ordered to Washington, D.C. |
August 7-
November 28 |
Sheridan's Shenandoah Valley Campaign |
August 11 |
Winchester and Tell Gate near White Post |
August 16 and 18 |
Cedarville, or Front Royal |
August 23 |
Kearneysville |
August 25 |
Near Kearneysville |
August 25 |
Shephardstown |
August 28 |
Leetown and Smithfield |
August 29 |
Smithfield Crossing of the Opequan |
September 4 |
Berryville |
September 13 |
Locke's Ford, Opequan Creek |
September 15 |
Sevier's Ford, Opequan Creek |
September 19 |
Battle of Opequan, Winchester |
September 21 |
Fisher's Hill |
September 22 |
Milford |
September 24 |
Luray |
September 26-28 |
Port Republic |
October 2 |
Mt. Crawford |
October 8 |
Luray Valley |
October 8-9 |
Tom's Brook |
October 19 |
Battle of Cedar Creek |
November 11 |
Near Kernstown |
November 28-
December 3 |
Expedition into Loudoun and Faquier Counties |
December 2 |
Middleburg |
December 19-28 |
Raid to Gordonsville |
December 21 |
Madison Court House |
December 22 |
Liberty Mills |
December 23 |
Jack's Shop, near Gordonsville |
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February 13-17 |
Expedition from Edenburg to Little Fort Valley |
February 27-
March 25 |
Sheridan's Raid from Winchester |
March 2 |
Occupation of Staunton |
March 2 |
Waynesboro |
March 8 |
Duguidsville |
March 15 |
Hanover Court House |
March, 1865 |
Army of the Shenandoah, Middle Military Division |
March 28-April 9 |
Appomattox Court House |
March 30-31 |
Dinwiddie Court House |
April 1 |
Five Forks |
April 2 |
Scott's Cross Roads |
April 4 |
Tabernacle Church or Beaver Creek Pond |
April 6 |
Sailor's Creek |
April 8 |
Appomattox Station |
April 9 |
Appomattox Court House, surrender of Lee and his army |
April 23-29 |
Expedition to Danville |
May |
March to Washington |
May 23 |
Grand Review |
June |
Dept. of Missouri |
June 1 |
Moved to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas |
August |
District of the Plains, Dept. of Missouri |
September |
District of Dakota, Dept. of Missouri |
July - November |
Powder River Expedition and operations against Indians in District of the Plains and Dakota |
December |
District of Utah, Dept. of Missouri; Duty in District of Utah |
March 10 |
Mustered out |
