United States Regiments & Batteries > Michigan > Seventh Michigan Cavalry Regiment
The Seventh Michigan Cavalry Regiment lost 4 officers and 81 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 2 officers and 256 enlisted men by disease, a total of 343. The regiment, along with the other regiments of the Wolverine Brigade, is honored by a monument at Gettysburg.
From the monument to the Michigan Cavalry Brigade at Gettysburg:
Seventh Michigan Cavalry Regiment Mustered in at Grand Rapids, Mich. Jan. 16, 1863. Mustered out at Fort Leavenworth, Kas. Dec. 16, 1865. Total enrollment 1779 officers and men. Killed 2 officers 47 men. Died of wounds 2 officers 24 men. Died of disease 1 officer 246 men. Total casualties 322. Participated in 56 skirmishes and general engagements from Hanover, Pa. June 30, 1863 to Appomattox, Va., April 9, 1865.
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1862
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| October 1862 – June 1863 |
The Seventh Michigan Cavalry Regiment was organized at Grand Rapids, Michigan. |
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1863
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| February 20 | 1st Battalion left the State for Washington, D.C. |
| May | Balance of Regiment left State for Washington, D.C. Attached to Provisional Cavalry Brigade, Casey’s Division, Defenses of Washington, 22nd Corps |
| April | Attached to 1st Brigade, Stahel’s Cavalry Division, 22nd Corps, Dept. of Washington |
| May 21 | Action at Thoroughfare Gap, Virginia |
| May 30 | Greenwich |
| June | Attached to 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, Cavalry Corps, Army of the Potomac |
| June 27-28 | Expedition up the Catoctin Valley |
| June 28 | Occupation of Gettysburg, Pennsulvania |
| June 30 |
Battle of Hanover, Pennsylvnia |
| July 2 |
Battle of Hunterstown |
| July 1-3 |
Battle of GettysburgFrom the monument on the East Cavalry Battlefield at Gettysburg: This monument marks the field where the Michigan Cavalry Brigade under its gallant leader General George A. Custer rendered signal and distinguished service in assisting to defeat the further advance of a numerically superior force under the Confederate General J. E. B. Stuart which in conjunction with Pickett’s Charge upon the centre, attempted to turn the right flank of the Union Army at that critical hour of conflict upon the afternoon of July 3rd, 1863. Field held from 9 a.m. until 7 p.m. 1st Mich.; killed 10 men, wounded 6 officers 37 men, missing 20 men. |
| July 4 |
Battle of Monterey Pass |
| July 5 | Smithburg |
| July 6 | Williamsport and Hagerstown |
| July 8 |
Boonsboro |
| July 11-13 |
Hagerstown |
| July 14 |
Falling Waters |
| July 19 | Snicker’s Gap |
| August 1-8 | Expedition from Warrenton Junction, between Bull Run and Blue Ridge Mountains |
| August 15 | Hartwood Church |
| August 24 | King George Court House |
| September 1-3 | Expedition to Port Conway |
| September 13-17 | Advance from the Rappahannock to the Rapidan |
| September 13 | Culpeper Court House |
| September 14-16 | Raccoon Ford |
| September 17 | Raccoon Ford |
| September 21-23 | Reconnaissance across the Rapidan |
| September 21-22 | White’s Ford |
| September 22 | Orange Court House |
| October 8-22 |
Bristoe Campaign |
| October 8 | Robertson’s River |
| October 8-10 | Jams 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 6 | Near Falmouth |
| November 7-8 | Advance to line of the Rappahannock |
| November 8 | Stevensburg |
| November 26- December 2 |
Mine Run Campaign |
| November 26 | Morton’s Ford |
| November 26-27 | Raccoon Ford |
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1864
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| February 6-7 | Demonstration on the Rapidan |
| February 28- March 4 |
Kilpatrick’s Raid on Richmond |
| March 1 |
Fortifications of Richmond and Atlee’s |
| March | Assigned to the 1st Brigade, 1st Division, Cavalry Corps, Army of the Potomac |
| May 3-June 24 |
Campaign from the Rapidan to the James River |
| May 5-7 |
Battle of the Wilderness |
| May 5-6 | Todd’s Tavern |
| May 6 |
Brook Road and the Furnaces |
| May 7-8 |
Todd’s Tavern |
| May 9-24 |
Sheridan’s Raid to the James River |
| May 9 | Beaver Dam Station |
| May 11 |
Yellow Tavern |
| May 12 | Meadow Bridge and fortifications of Richmond |
| May 16 | Malvern Hill |
| May 21 | Hanover Court House |
| May 26-28 | On line of the Pamunkey |
| May 27 | Hanovertown Ferry, Hanovertown and Crump’s Creek |
| May 28-31 | On line of the Totopotomoy |
| May 28 |
Haw’s Shop and Aenon Church |
| May 30 | Old Church and Mattadequin Creek |
| May 21-June 1 | Bethesda Church, Cold Harbor |
| June 1 | Bottom’s Bridge |
| 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 11-12 |
Fort Stevens and along Northern Defenses of Washington (Detachment) |
| July 27-29 | Demonstration North of the James River |
| July 27-29 | Deep Bottom |
| August | Ordered to Washington, D.C. Assigned to 1st Brigade, 1st Division, Cavalry Corps, Army of the Potomac |
| August 7 |
Sheridan’s Shenandoah Valley Campaign |
| August 11 | Tell Gate, near White Post, and near Winchester |
| August 16 | Cedarville, or Front Royal |
| August 23 | Kearneysville |
| August 25 | Kearneysville and Shephardstown |
| August 28 | Leetown and Smithfield |
| September 29 | Smithfield Crossing of the Opequan |
| September 13 | Locke’s Ford, Opequan Creek |
| September 15 | Sevier’s Ford, Opequan |
| September 19 |
Third Battle of Winchester (Opequan) |
| September 21 |
Fisher’s Hill |
| September 22 | Milford |
| September 24 | Luray |
| September 26-28 | Port Republic |
| October 2 | Mr. Crawford |
| October 6 | Salem Church |
| October 8 | Luray Valley |
| October 8-9 |
Tom’s Brook (“Woodstock Races”) |
| October 19 |
Battle of Cedar Creek |
| November 7 | Edenburg |
| November 11 | Near Kernstown |
| November 28- December 3 |
Expedition into Loudoun and Faquier Counties |
| December 19-28 | Raid to Gordonsville |
| December 21 | Madison Court House |
| December 22 | Liberty Mills |
| December 23 | Near Gordonsville |
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1865
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| February 13-17 | Expedition to Little Fort Valley |
| February 28 – March 25 |
Sheridan’s Raid from Winchester to James River |
| March 2 | Occupation of Staunton and action at Waynesboro |
| March 8 | Duguidsville |
| March 28- April 9 |
Appomattox Campaign |
| March 30-31 |
Dinwiddie Court House |
| April 1 |
Battle of Five Forks |
| April 2 | Scott’s Cross Roads |
| April 4 | Tabernacle Church, or Beaver Bend Creek |
| April 6 |
Sailor’s Creek |
| April 8 |
Appomattox Station |
| April 9 |
Appomattox Court HouseSurrender of Lee and his army |
| April 23-27 | Expedition to Danville |
| May | March to Washington, D.C. |
| May 23 | Grand Review |
| June 1 | Moved to Leavenworth, Kansas; District of the Plains, Dept. of Missouri; Powder River Expedition and operations against Indians in District of the Plains and Dakota |
| September | Moved to District of Dakota |
| December 15 | The Seventh Michigan Cavalry Regiment mustered out. Veterans and recruits transferred to 1st Michigan Cavalry Regiment. |