United States Regiments & Batteries > Michigan
The 1st Michigan Cavalry lost 14 officers and 150 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 6 officers and 244 enlisted men by diseaseduring the Civil War. The regiment is honored along with the other regiments of the Wolverine Brigade by a monument at Gettysburg.
From the monument:
Total enrollment 3244 officers and men. Killed 10 officers 92 men. Died of wounds 5 officers 46 men. Died of disease 5 officers 246 men. Total casualties 404. Participated in 67 skirmishes and general engagements from Winchester, Va., Mar. 23, 1862 to Appomattox Va. April 9, 1865.
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1861
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| August 21 to September 6 |
Organized at Detroit, Mich. |
| September 13 | Mustered in |
| September. 29 | Left State for Washington, D.C.; Attached to Cavalry Brigade, Army of the Potomac |
| December | Attached to Cavalry, Banks’ Division, Army of the Potomac |
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1862
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| February 25- May 6 |
Operations in Loudoun County, Va. |
| February 27 | Occupation of Loudoun Heights |
| March 6 | Berryville (Detachment) |
| March 8 | Capture of Leesburg |
| March 12 | Reconnaissance to Snicker’s Gap |
| March 23 | Battle of Winchester |
| March | Attached to Hatch’s Cavalry Command, Banks’ 5th Corps |
| March 27 | Strasburg |
| April 1-2 | Advance from Strasburg to Woodstock and Edenburg |
| April 1 | Salem and Woodstock |
| April 1-2 | Edenburg |
| April 2 | Thoroughfare Gap |
| April 3 | Greenwich |
| April 4 | Catlett’s Station |
| April 5 | Warrenton |
| April 7 | Columbia Furnace |
| April 11 | White Plains |
| April 14 | Rectortown, Piedmont |
| April 17 | Mt. Jackson and New Market |
| April, 1862 | Assigned to Hatch’s Cavalry Brigade, Dept. of the Shenandoah |
| April 27 | McGaheysville |
| May 15 | Linden |
| June, 1862 | Assigned to Cavalry Brigade, 2nd Corps, Army of Virginia |
| May 15-June 17 | Operations in the Shenandoah Valley |
| May 24 | Middletown |
| May 24-26 | Retreat to Williamsport |
| May 25 | Winchester |
| June 7-8 | Expedition from Gainesville |
| June 24 | Milford |
| June 26 | Strasburg Pike |
| June 29-30 | Reconnaissance to Front Royal |
| June 30 | Luray |
| July 12 | Culpeper Court House |
| July 15 | Orange Court House |
| July 17 | Reconnaissance to Madison Court House |
| August 2 | Reconnaissance to Orange Court House under Crawford |
| August 9 |
Battle of Cedar Mountain |
| August 13 | Reconnaissance to Orange Court House |
| August 16 | Reconnaissance to Louisa Court House |
| August 16 – September 2 |
Pope’s Campaign in Northern Virginia |
| August 21-23 | Fords of the Rappahannock |
| August 30 | Lewis Ford and Bull Run |
| September | Unassigned, Alexandria, Va. |
| September | Price’s Cavalry Brigade, Military District of Washington; Duty in the Defenses of Washington, D C. |
| September 5 | Mouth of Monocacy |
| November 25 | Company “D” served detached as Provost Guard at Alexandria |
| November 28-30 | Reconnaissance to Berryville |
| November 30 | Snicker’s Ferry, Berryville |
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1863
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| January 8-10 | Expedition to Catlett’s and Rappahannock Station |
| January 9 | Brentsville |
| February 14 | Near Union Mills (Detachment) |
| February | 22nd Army Corps, Dept. of Washington |
| March | 1st Brigade, Stahel’s Cavalry Division, 22nd Army Corps |
| June | Company “D” returns from detachment as Provost Guard at Alexandria |
| June 30 |
Battle of Hanover |
| July 2 |
Battle of Hunterstown |
| July 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 | Fairfield Gap |
| July 5 | Smithburg |
| July 6 | Hagerstown and Williamsport, Md. |
| July 8 | Boonsboro |
| July 11-13 | Hagerstown |
| July 14 | Falling Waters |
| July 20 | Ashby’s Gap |
| July 24 | Battle Mountain, near Newby’s Cross Roads |
| July 25 | Barbee’s Cross Roads |
| August 24 | King George Court House |
| September 1-3 | Expedition to Port Conway |
| September 1 | Lamb’s Creek Church, near Port Conway |
| September 13-17 | Advance from the Rappahannock to the Rapidan |
| September 13 | Stevensburg and Pony Mountain |
| September 13 | Culpeper Court House |
| September 14-16 | Somerville Ford |
| September 21-23 | Reconnaissance across the Rapidan |
| September 21-22 | White’s Ford |
| September 23 | Robertson’s Ford and near Liberty Mills |
| October 8-22 | Bristoe Campaign |
| October 8-9-10 | James 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 7-8 | Advance to line of the Rappahannock |
| November 26 – October 2 |
Mine Run Campaign |
| November 26 | Morton’s Ford |
| November 26-27 | Raccoon Ford |
| October 13 to December 29 |
4 new Companies organized |
| December 21 | Regiment absent on furlough |
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1864
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| February 1 | Returned to Camp Stoneman, D.C. and duty there |
| February 6-7 | Demonstration on the Rapidan |
| February 15 | Regiment consolidated to 8 Companies |
| February 28-March 4 | Kilpatrick’s Raid on Richmond |
| March 1 | Fortifications of Richmond |
| March, 1864 | Attached to 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, Cavalry Corps, Army of the Potomac |
| May 3-June 24 | Campaign from the Rapidan to the James River |
| May 5-6 | Todd’s Tavern |
| May 5-7 |
Battle of the Wilderness |
| May 6 | The Furnaces and Brock Road |
| May 7-8 | Todd’s Tavern |
| May 9-24 | Sheridan’s Raid to James River |
| May 9 | Beaver Dam Station |
| May 11 |
Yellow Tavern |
| May 12 | Meadow Bridge |
| May 21 | Hanover Court House |
| May 26-28 | On line of the Pamunkey |
| May 27 | Dabney’s Ferry, Hanovertown Ferry, Hanovertown and Crump’s Creek |
| May 28 | Haw’s Shop and Aenon Church |
| 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 | 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 27-29 | Demonstration north of the James River |
| July 27-28 | Deep Bottom |
| August, 1864 | 1st Brigade, 1st Division, Cavalry Corps, Army of the Potomac |
| August | Ordered to Washington, D.C. |
| August 7- November 28 |
Sheridan’s Shenandoah Valley Campaign |
| August 11 | Winchester and Tell Gate near White Post |
| August 16 and 18 | Cedarville, or Front Royal |
| August 23 | Kearneysville |
| August 25 | Near Kearneysville |
| August 25 | Shephardstown |
| August 28 | Leetown and Smithfield |
| August 29 | Smithfield Crossing of the Opequan |
| September 4 | Berryville |
| September 13 | Locke’s Ford, Opequan Creek |
| September 15 | Sevier’s Ford, Opequan Creek |
| 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 | Mt. Crawford |
| October 8 | Luray Valley |
| October 8-9 |
Tom’s Brook |
| October 19 |
Battle of Cedar Creek |
| November 11 | Near Kernstown |
| November 28- December 3 |
Expedition into Loudoun and Faquier Counties |
| December 2 | Middleburg |
| December 19-28 | Raid to Gordonsville |
| December 21 | Madison Court House |
| December 22 | Liberty Mills |
| December 23 | Jack’s Shop, near Gordonsville |
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1865
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| February 13-17 | Expedition from Edenburg to Little Fort Valley |
| February 27- March 25 |
Sheridan’s Raid from Winchester |
| March 2 | Occupation of Staunton |
| March 2 | Waynesboro |
| March 8 | Duguidsville |
| March 15 | Hanover Court House |
| March, 1865 | Attached to the Army of the Shenandoah, Middle Military Division |
| March 28-April 9 | Appomattox Court House |
| March 30-31 | Dinwiddie Court House |
| April 1 |
Battle of Five Forks |
| April 2 | Scott’s Cross Roads |
| April 4 | Tabernacle Church or Beaver Creek Pond |
| April 6 | Sailor’s Creek |
| April 8 | Appomattox Station |
| April 9 |
Appomattox Court HouseSurrender of Lee and his army |
| April 23-29 | Expedition to Danville |
| May | March to Washington |
| May 23 | Grand Review |
| June | Dept. of Missouri |
| June 1 | Moved to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas |
| August | District of the Plains, Dept. of Missouri |
| September | District of Dakota, Dept. of Missouri |
| July – November | Powder River Expedition and operations against Indians in District of the Plains and Dakota |
| December | District of Utah, Dept. of Missouri; Duty in District of Utah |
| March 10 | Mustered out at Salt lake City |