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The 1st Maryland Cavalry Potomac Home Brigade lost 2 officers and 45 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 2 officers and 120 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.
1861
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August 10 – November 27 |
Organized at Frederick, Maryland as Independent Cavalry Companies:
Attached to the Department of West Virginia. |
October 26 | South Branch Bridge, Virginia. (Company B) |
November 13 | First Lieutenant John M. Annan was accidentally shot and mortally wounded, dying that night. |
1862
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January | Companies A, C and D attached to Lander’s Division, Army of the Potomac |
January 5-6 | Hancock, Maryland, (Companies A, C & D) |
February 14 | Bloomery Gap |
March | Co. B attached to Department of West Virginia |
March 2-12 | Advance on Winchester |
March 3 | Martinsburg |
March 5 | Bunker Hill (Company A) |
March 7 | Between Bunker Hill and Winchester |
March 7-8 | Stephenson’s Depot |
March 12 | Winchester |
March 22 | Kernstown |
March 23 | Winchester |
April | Attached to Hatch’s Cavalry Brigade, Banks’ 5th Corps |
April I | Edenburg |
April 23 | Grass Lick, West Virginia (Company B) |
May | Attached to Department of the Shenandoah |
May 7 | Wardensville, West Virginia (Company B) |
May 28 | Charlestown |
June | Attched to Cavalry Brigade, 2nd Corps, Pope’s Army of Virginia |
June 10 | Captain John Horner (Company C) and Second Lieutenant Washington Morrison resigned. Second Lieutenant Albert E. Hunter was promoted to captain in the place of Horner and Third Sergeant Hiram S. McNair was promoted to Second Lieutenant in place of Morrison. |
August 1 | The companies were consolidated to a Battalion and designated Cole’s Battalion, Potomac Home Brigade Cavalry. Attached to Railroad Brigade, 8th Corps, Middle Department, |
September 2 |
Leesburg, VirginiaPrivate George Cease was killed. Captain Hunter of Company B, First Sergeant Oscar McMillan and Sergeant Samuel J. Maxwell taken prisoner and Cororal James A. Scott wounded. |
September 4 | Edwards’ Ferry, Maryland and Monocacy Creek; Reconnaissance to Lovettsville |
September 12-14 |
Maryland Heights and siege of Harper’s Ferry |
September 14 | The battalion took part in the daring nighttime escape from Harpers Ferry, cutting through Confederate lines at the base of Maryland Heights and eventually reaching safety in Pennsylvania. Corporals James Scott and Samuel Bostick were taken prisoner in the surrender of Harpers Ferry after being left behind wounded. |
September 15 | Capture of Longstreet’s train at Sharpsburg. |
September | Attached to Cavalry, 12th Corps, Army of the Potomac |
October 12 | Hyattstown, Maryland. |
November | Attached to Defenses of Upper Potomac, 8th Corps, Middle Department |
November 14 | Charleston |
December 1 | Berryville |
December 2 | Charlestown |
December 5 | Winchester |
December 20 | Halltown |
1863
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March | Attached to 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 8th Corps |
May 16 | Near Charlestown |
June 13 | Berryville |
June 14 | Martinsburg |
June 15 | Winchester (Company B) and Williamsport |
June 17 | Catoctin Creek |
June 21 | Frederick, Maryland. |
July | Sharpsburg |
July 1 | Fountain Dale, Pa. |
July 1-3 |
Battle of GettysburgPrivates Zaccheus Hollebaugh and Henry Hughes were mortally wounded, dying in the field hospital |
July 4 | Near Emmittsburg |
July 6 |
Falling Waters and Harper’s Ferry |
July | Attached to 2nd Brigade, Maryland Heights Division, Department of West Virginia |
August 23 | Smithfield |
August 25 | Scout Into Loudoun County |
September 12-16 | Scout Into Loudoun County |
September 14 | Catoctin Mountain |
September 14 | Snickersville, Leesburg, Rector’s Cross Roads and Bloomfield |
September 21-26 | Scout Into Loudoun County |
September 25 | Loudoun Valley, Va. |
October 7 | Loudoun Valley and Summit Point; Charleston (Company B) |
October 18 |
BerryvillePrivate Edwin Jordan was killed and Corporal William A. Mcilhenny wounded |
October 22 | Near Annandale |
November 15-18 | Expedition from Charleston to New Market |
November 16 | Mr. Jackson |
November | Ashby’s Gap |
December | Attached to Cavalry Brigade, 1st Division West Virginia |
December 10 | Upperville |
December 17 | Edenburg |
December 18 | New Market |
December 21 | Harrisonburg and Staunton |
1864
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January 1 |
Five points, RectortownSergeants John E. Gilson and George W. Shiver taken prisoner |
January 10 | Loudoun Heights |
January 14 | First Sergeant Oliver A. Horner promoted to Second Lieutenant. |
February 4 | Romney, Moorfield and Mechanicsville Gap |
February 9 – April 23 |
Authority given to increase Battalion to a Regiment, and Companies E – M organized at Baltimore and Frederick |
February 13 | The Regiment reenlisted. Veterans went on furlough |
February 20 | Upperville |
April | Veterans returned from furlough. The Regiment was assigned to 1st Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, West Virginia |
April 20 | Second Lieutenant Oliver Horner promoted to Adjutant. |
April 30-May 16 | Sigel’s Expedition from Martinsburg, W. Va., to New Market |
May 13-15 |
Battle of New Market |
May 26-July 1 |
Hunter’s Expedition to Lynchburg |
June 3 | Harrisonburg |
June 5 | Piedmont |
June 6 | Occupation of Staunton |
June 12 | Tye River |
June 13 | Lexington |
June 14 | Buckhannon |
June 17-18 | Lynchburg |
June 21 | Catawba Mountains and near Salem |
July 3 | Leetown and Shepardstown (Detachment) |
July 5 | Keedysville |
July 11-12 | Frederick, Md. |
July | Maryland Heights, Brownsville, Crampton’s Gap and Herndon |
July 16 | Purcellsville |
July 17-18 | Snicker’s Ferry |
July 19 | Ashby’s Gap and Winchester |
July 23-24 |
Second Battle of Kernstown |
July 25 | Winchester, Bunker Hill and Martinsburg |
July 25 | Snicker’s Gap |
July 26 | Falling Waters |
July 29-30 | Hagerstown |
August | Assigned to 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, Cavalry Corps, Army of the Shenandoah |
August 5 | Keedysville |
August 17 | Winchester |
August 18, 19 & 20 | Opequan Creek |
August 21 | Near Berryville |
August 21-22 | Near Charlestown |
August 22 | Antietam |
August 26 | Williamsport |
August 30 | Summit Point |
September 3 | White Post |
September 19 |
Third Battle of Winchester |
September 22 |
Battle of Fisher’s Hill |
October | Assigned to Reserve Division, Harper’s Ferry, West Virginia |
October 19 |
Battle of Cedar Creek |
October-June | Duty In West Virginia operating against Moseby and guarding Baltimore & Ohio Railroad |
1865
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January | Attached to 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, Department of West Virginia |
February | Attached to 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, Department of West Virginia |
June 28 | The 1st Maryland Potomac Home Brigade Cavalry mustered out |