1861 |
January |
Regiment on the Pacific Coast
Companies D and G in New Mexico. |
April |
Companies D and G - Evacuation of Forts Breckenridge and Buchanan |
July 16-21 |
Companies A & E - Advance on Manassas, Va. |
July 21 |
Companies A & E - Battle of Bull Run |
August |
Companies A & E - Duty in the Defenses of Washington, D.C. |
November to January |
Concentrated at Washington, D.C. Regiment attached to Cooke's Cavalry Reserve, Army Potomac |
1862 |
January-February |
Companies D and G - Defense of Fort Craig |
February 19 |
Companies D and G - Near Fort Craig |
February 21 |
Companies D and G - Action at Valverde |
March |
Regiment moved to Virginia Peninsula and attached to 2nd Brigade, Cavalry Reserve, Army Potomac |
March 26 |
Companies D and G - Apache Canon, near Santa Fe |
March 28 |
Companies D and G - Glorietta or Pigeon Ranch |
April 5-May 4 |
Siege of Yorktown, Va. |
April 25 |
Companies A & E - Stationed at Fort Craig, Albuquerque |
April 27 |
Companies A & E - Peralta |
May 4 |
Regiment - Cheese Cake Church |
May 26 |
Reconnaissance to Hanover Court House |
June 13-15 |
Operations against Stuart |
June 25-July 1 |
Seven days before Richmond |
June 27 |
Gaines' Mill |
July 1 |
Malvern Hill |
July |
Assigned to Headquarters Army of the Potomac |
October 16-17 |
Reconnaissance to Charlestown, W. Va. |
October 16 |
Charlestown |
December 12-15 |
Battle of Fredericksburg |
December 29-30 |
Expedition from Potomac Creek to Richards' and Ellis' Fords, Rappahannock River |
1863 |
February |
Assigned to Reserve Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, Cavalry Corps, Army Potomac |
March 17 |
Kelly's Ford |
April 29-May 8 |
Stoneman's Raid |
June 9 |
Brandy Station and Beverly Ford |
June 19 |
Middleburg |
June 21 |
Upperville |
July 1-3 |
Battle of Gettysburg
The regiment was commanded by Captain Robert S.C. Lord, and lost 1 man killed, 9 wounded and 5 missing.
From the monument southeast Gettysburg, near Emmitsburg Road:
"July 3. Moved with the Brigade at 12 m. under Brig. General W. Merritt from Emmitsburg and attacked the Confederate right and rear and was engaged for four hours until the action was brought to close by a heavy rain." |
July 6 |
Williamsport. Md. |
July 8 |
Boonsboro |
July 9 |
Benevola or Beaver Creek |
July 10-13 |
About Funkstown |
July 14 |
Falling Waters |
July 21-22 |
Manassas Gap, Va. |
July 23 |
Wapping Heights and Chester Gap |
July 31-August 1 |
Kelly's Ford |
August 1-4 |
Brandy Station |
October 9-22 |
Bristoe Campaign |
October 17 |
Manassas Junction |
October 18 |
Bristoe Station |
November 7-8 |
Advance to the Rappahannock |
November 26-December 2 |
Mine Run Campaign |
1864 |
February 6-7 |
Demonstration on the Rapidan |
February 6-7 |
Barnett's Ford |
February 28-March 1 |
Custer's Raid in Albemarle County |
February 29 |
Near Charlottesville |
March 1 |
Stannardsville |
May 4-June 12 |
Rapidan Campaign |
May 5-7 |
Wilderness |
May 7-8 |
Todd's Tavern |
May 9-24 |
Sheridan's Raid to the James River |
May 11 |
Ground Squirrel Church and Yellow Tavern |
May 12 |
Mechanicsville |
May 26-28 |
On line of the Pamunkey |
May 27 |
Hanovertown Ferry and Hanovertown |
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 |
Mallory's Cross Roads |
June 21 |
Black Creek or Tunstall Station and White House or St. Peter's Church |
June 23 |
Jones' Bridge |
July |
Siege of Petersburg |
July 27-28 |
Deep Bottom |
July 28 |
Malvern Hill |
August |
In Defenses of Washington assigned to 3rd (Reserve) Brigade, 1st Division, Cavalry Corps, Army Shenandoah, Middle Military Division |
August 7-
November 28 |
Sheridan's Shenandoah Valley Campaign |
August 11 |
Toll Gate, near White Post, and near Newtown |
August 14 |
Near Strasburg |
August 21 |
Summit Point |
August 25 |
Halltown and near Kearneysville |
August 28 |
Leetown and Smithfield |
August 29 |
Smithfield, crossing of the Opequan |
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 23 |
Front Royal |
September 24 |
Luray Valley |
September 26-27 |
Port Republic |
September 28 |
Rockfish Gap |
October 2 |
Mt. Crawford |
October 8-9 |
Tom's Brook, Woodstock Races |
October 16-18 |
Expedition into Surrey County |
October 19 |
Battle of Cedar Creek |
November 11 |
Near Kernstown |
November 28-December 3 |
Expedition into Loudoun and Fauquier Counties. Assigned to Headquarters Army Shenandoah |
December 19-28 |
Expedition from Winchester to near Gordonsville |
December 22 |
Liberty Mills |
December 23 |
Near Gordonsville |
1865 |
February 27-
March 25 |
Sheridan's Raid from Winchester |
March 2 |
Occupation of Staunton and Action at Waynesborough |
March 8 |
Duguidsville |
March 28-April 9 |
Appomattox Campaign. attached to 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, Cavalry Corps, Army Potomac
|
March 30-31 |
Dinwiddie Court House |
April 1 |
Five Forks |
April 2 |
Scott's Cross Roads |
April 4 |
Tabernacle Church or Beaver Pond Creek |
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 |
Moved to Washington, D.C. |
May 23 |
Grand Review |
June |
Ordered to New Orleans, La. and duty there until December. |
