United States Regiments & Batteries > Pennsylvania
The 16th Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment lost 5 officers and 100 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 3 officers and 194 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War. It is honored by a monument at Gettysburg.
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1862
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| September – November | Organized at Harrisburg under Colonel John Irvin Gregg |
| November 23 | Left State for Washington, D.C. At Camp Casey, near Bladensburg, Md., attached to Defenses of Washington |
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1863
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| January 3 | Moved to Falmouth, Va. and duty on line of the Rappahannock attached to Averill’s Cavalry Brigade, Army of the Potomac |
| February | Attached to 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, Cavalry Corps, Army Potomac |
| February 5-7 | Operations at Rappahannock Bridge and Grove Church |
| February 25 | Hartwood Church |
| March 17 | Kelly’s Ford |
| April 13-27 | Operations about Bealeton Station |
| April 13 | Elk Run |
| April 26-May 8 | Chancellorsville Campaign |
| April 29-May 8 | Stoneman’s Raid |
| April 29 | Kelly’s Ford |
| May 2 | Ely’s Ford |
| June 9 |
Battle of Brandy StationAttached to 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, Cavalry Corps, Army Potomac. In reserve de to lack of saddles. Commanded by Captain John K. Robison, |
| June 17 | Aldie |
| June 18 | Near Middleburg |
| June 19 | Middleburg |
| July 1-3 |
Battle of GettysburgColonel Gregg was in command of the brigade as senior colonel, and the regiment was commanded by Lieutenant Colonel John K. Robison. It brought 411 men to the field, losing two killed and four wounded. From the monument on Highland Avenue: Position occupied on the afternoon of July 3rd, 1863. |
| July 5 | Steven’s Furnace |
| July 14-16 | Shepherdstown, W. Va. |
| August | Attached to 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, Cavalry Corps, Army Potomac |
| August 27 | Little Washington |
| September 13-17 | Advance to the Rapidan |
| September 13 | Culpeper C. H. |
| September 18 | Crooked Run |
| October 9-22 | Bristoe Campaign |
| October 12-13 | Warrenton or White Sulphur Springs |
| October 14 | Auburn and Bristoe, St. Stephen’s Church, Catlett’s Station |
| November 26-December 2 | Mine Run Campaign |
| November 27 | New Hope Church |
| November 29 | Parker’s Store |
| December 21-23 | Expedition to Luray |
| December 22 | Amissville, Gaines Cross Roads and Sperryville |
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1864
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| February 28-March 4 | Kilpatrick’s Raid on Richmond |
| February 29 | Beaver Dam Station |
| March 1 | Fortifications of Richmond |
| May-June | Rapidan Campaign |
| May 5-8 | Todd’s Tavern, Wilderness |
| May 9-24 | Sheridan’s Raid to James River |
| May 9-10 | North Anna River |
| May 11 | Ground Squirrel Church and Yellow Tavern |
| May 12 | Brook Church, Fortifications of Richmond |
| May 21 | Milford Station |
| May 26-28 | Line of the Pamunkey |
| May 28 | Haw’s Shop |
| May 28-31 | Totopotomoy |
| 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 |
| July | Beginning of siege operations against Petersburg and Richmond |
| July 12 | Warwick Swamp |
| July 27-29 | Demonstration on north side of the James at Deep Bottom |
| July 28-29 | Deep Bottom |
| July 28 | Malvern Hill |
| July 30 | Warwick Swamp |
| August 13-20 | Demonstration on north side of James River at Deep Bottom |
| August 14 | Gravel Hill |
| August 14-18 | Strawberry Plains, Deep Bottom |
| August 16 | Charles City Cross Roads |
| August 23 | Dinwiddie Road, near Ream’s Station |
| August 25 | Ream’s Station |
| September 13 | Reconnaissance to Poplar Springs Church |
| September 15 | Reconnaissance toward Dinwiddie C. H. |
| September 29-October 2 | Poplar Springs Church |
| September 30-October 1 | Arthur’s Swamp |
| October 27-28 | Boydton Plank Road, Hatcher’s Run |
| November 7 | Reconnaissance to Stony Creek |
| November 16 | Near Lee’s Mills (Detachment) |
| December 1 | Stony Creek Station |
| December 7-12 | Hicksford Raid |
| December 8 | Bellefield |
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1865
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| January 9 | Disputantia Station |
| 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 | Sailor’s Creek |
| April 7 | Farmville |
| April 9 | Appomattox C. H. Surrender of Lee and his army. |
| April 23-29 | Expedition to Danville |
| May-August | Moved to Lynchburg, Va., and duty there and in the Dept. of Virginia |
| August 11 | Mustered out |