1861 |
August -
October |
Recruited in Philadelphia, Bucks, Lycoming and Luzerne Counties and organized at Philadelphia |
October 4 |
Left State for Washington, D.C. Attached to Porter's Division, Army Potomac and duty at Arlington Heights, Va., Defenses of Washington, D.C., |
1862 |
March |
Attached to 4th Army Corps, Army Potomac |
March 10-15 |
Advance on Manassas, Va., |
April |
Moved to the Virginia Peninsula attached to Blake's Brigade, Cavalry Reserve, Army Potomac |
April 11-May 4 |
Siege of Yorktown |
May 13 |
Baltimore Cross Roads, near New Kent Court House |
May 20-23 |
Operations about Bottom's Bridge |
May 23 |
Reconnaissance toward Richmond and to Turkey Island Creek Bridge |
May 24 |
Savage Station |
May 24-27 |
Reconnaissance to Seven Pines |
May 24 |
Chickahominy |
May 27 |
Garnett's Farm and White Oak |
May 31-June 1 |
Battle of Fair Oaks (Seven Pines) |
June 22-23 |
Reconnaissance to White Oak Swamp |
June 25-July 1 |
Seven days before Richmond |
June 28-29 |
Bottom's Bridge |
June 29 |
Savage Station |
July 1 |
Malvern Hill |
July-August |
At Harrison's Landing. Attached to 2nd Brigade, Stoneman's Cavalry Division, Army of the Potomac, except Co. A at Headquarters of Gen. Porter; Co; B at Headquarters of Gen. McClellan; Co. D at Headquarters of Geneneral Philip St. G. Cooke. |
July 20 |
Turkey Island Bridge |
July 23 |
Reconnaissance to Malvern Hill |
September |
Retreat from the Peninsula and movement to Alexandria. Maryland Campaign attached to 2nd Brigade, Pleasanton's Cavalry Division, Army of the Potomac |
September 3-4 |
Falls Church |
September 10-11 |
Sugar Loaf Mountain |
September 12 |
Frederick |
September 13 |
Middletown |
September 16-17 |
Antietam |
September 19 |
Boteller's Ford, Sharpsburg and Shepherdstown Ford |
Amissville |
September 30 |
October 1 |
Reconnaissance from Sharpsburg to Shepherdstown and Martinsburg, W. Va. (3 Cos.) |
November 1-2 |
Philomont |
November 2-3 |
Castleman's Ferry, Upperville, Union and Bloomfield |
November 3 |
Aldie and Ashby's Gap |
November 4 |
Markham Station |
November 5 |
Barbee's Cross Roads |
November 7 |
Waterloo Bridge |
November 8 |
Hazel River |
November 10 |
Newby's Cross Roads, near Amissville |
November 19 |
Philomont |
December 2 |
Leed's Ferry and King George Court House |
December 12-15 |
Battle of Fredericksburg |
1863 |
February |
Attached to 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, Cavalry Corps, Army Potomac |
April 27-May 6 |
Chancellorsville Campaign |
April 29 |
Richard's Ford and Barnett's Ford |
April 30 |
Ely's Ford Road |
May 1-2 |
Chancellorsville |
May 4 |
Salem Heights and Banks' Ford |
June |
Attached to 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, Cavalry Corps, Army Potomac |
June 17 |
Aldie |
June 19 |
Middleburg |
June 21 |
Upperville |
June 25 |
Thoroughfare Gap |
June 30 |
Westminster, Md. |
July 1-3 |
Battle of Gettysburg
The regiment was commanded by Captain William A. Corrie and took 391 men into the campaign.
"This regiment detached with the 2nd Corps, covered the rear of the Army on the march from Virginia. At Frederick rejoined the Cavalry Corps and with Gregg's Division moved in the advance to Gettysburg July 1st. Moved hastily to Manchester to protect trains July 4th. Joined in the pursuit of the enemy participating in the night attack at Monterey Pass and the many other cavalry engagements until the enemy retreated into Virginia." |
July 4 |
Monterey Gap |
July 5 |
Smithsburg |
July 6 |
Williamsport and Hagerstown, Md. |
July 8 |
Boonsboro |
July 10 and 13 |
Jones' Cross Roads, near Williamsport |
July 10-13 |
Hagerstown |
July 11-12 |
St. James College |
July 14 |
Williamsport Road |
July 16 |
Shepherdstown |
September 2 |
Rixey's Ford |
September 13-17 |
Advance from the Rappahannock to the Rapidan |
September 13 |
Culpeper Court House |
September 15-16 |
Rapidan Station |
September 22 |
Robertson's River |
October 9-22 |
Bristoe Campaign |
October 11 |
Near Warrenton |
October 12 |
Warrenton or White Sulphur Springs |
October 14 |
Auburn and Bristoe |
October 14 |
St. Stephen's Church |
November 7-8 |
Advance to line of the Rappahannock |
November 26-December 2 |
Mine Run Campaign |
November 27 |
New Hope Church |
December 5 |
Blind Ferry |
December 21-23 |
Raid to Luray Valley |
December 31 |
Regiment reenlisted |
1864 |
January 1-4 |
Raid through Chester Gap |
May-June |
Rapidan Campaign |
May 5-8 |
Todd's Tavern |
May 8-21 |
Spottsylvania Court House (Company A) |
May 9-24 |
Sheridan's Raid to James River |
May 9 |
Matapony Church |
May 9-10 |
North Anna River |
May 11 |
Ground Squirrel Church and Yellow Tavern |
May 12 |
Brook Church or Fortifications of Richmond |
May 18 |
Haxall's Landing |
May 26-28 |
Line of the Pamunkey |
May 28-31 |
Totopotomoy |
May 28 |
Haw's Shop |
May 31-June 1 |
Cold Harbor |
June 2 |
Sumner's Upper Bridge |
June 7-24 |
Sheridan's Trevillian Raid |
June 11-12 |
Trevillian Station |
June 21 |
White House or St. Peter's Church and Black Creek or Tunstall Station |
June 24 |
St. Mary's Church, beginning of Siege of Petersburg and Richmond |
July 12 |
Warwick Swamp |
July 15-16 |
Charles City Cross Roads |
July 27-29 |
Demonstration north of the James at Deep Bottom |
July 28 |
Malvern Hill |
July 30 |
Warwick Swamp |
August 13-20 |
Demonstration north of the James at Deep Bottom |
August 14 |
Gravel Hill |
August 14-18 |
Strawberry Plains and Deep Run |
August 16 |
Charles City Cross Roads |
August 23 |
Dinwiddie Road, near Ream's Station |
August 25 |
Ream's Station |
September. 17 |
Belcher's Mills |
September 29-October 2 |
Poplar Springs Church |
September 30-October 1 |
Arthur's Swamp |
October 27-28 |
Boydton Plank Road, Hatchers Run |
November 7 |
Reconnaissance to Stony Creek |
December 1 |
Stony Creek Station |
December 7-12 |
Bellefield Raid |
1865 |
February 5-7 |
Dabney's Mills, Hatcher's Run |
March 28-April 9 |
Appomattox Campaign |
March 30-31 |
Dinwiddie C. H. |
April 1 |
Five Forks |
April 5 |
Paine's Cross Roads and Amelia Springs |
April 6 |
Deatonville Road and Sailor's Creek |
April 7 |
Farmville |
April 9 |
Appomattox C. H. Surrender of Lee and his army. |
April 23-29 |
Expedition to Danville |
May-July |
Duty at Lynchburg and in the Dept. of Virginia |
July 24 |
Mustered out by consolidation with 16th Pennsylvania Cavalry |
