United States Regiments & Batteries > New York
The 11th New York Cavalry Regiment lost 1 officer and 22 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 2 officers and 319 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.
1861
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December – May | Organized at New York City under Colonel James B. Swain. |
1862
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May 5 | Ten companies left the state for Washington, D.C. for duty in the defences of that city attached to Military District of Washington and 22nd Army Corps, Dept. of Washington. |
June 18 | Action at Blue Ridge Mountain, Va |
August & September |
Companies L&M mustered in |
October | Companies L&M join regiment |
December 14 | Poolesville, Md. |
1863
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June 27 |
Fairfax Court House, Va.Companies B and C under Major S. Pierre Remington attacked what they thought were a band of Moseby’s partisans. But it was the advance guard of Stuart’s three brigades of cavalry riding toward Pennsylvania. Major Remington and 18 men escaped, Four enlisted men were killed, Captain Alexander Campbell and 20 enlisted men were seriously wounded and captured, and Lieutenants Dagwell, Hazleton and Holmes and 54 unwounded or lightly wounded enlisted men were captured. Although Major Remington’s command was almost wiped out, his attack delayed Stuart’s march for half a day. |
June 30 | Bolivar Heights |
July 7 | Harper’s Ferry |
July 14 | Near Harper’s Ferry |
July 15 | Halltown |
August 27 | Edwards’ Ferry, Md. (Detachment) |
August 20- September 2 |
Company F – Expedition from Leesburg |
September 22 | Rockville, Md. |
1864
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March | Ordered to Dept. of the Gulf and duty in the District of LaFourche, La. |
May 15 | Action at New River, La. |
June | Attached to District of Baton Rouge, La., Dept. of the Gulf |
June 10, July 20 | Manning’s Plantation |
July 31 | Orange Grove, near Donaldsonville |
August 5 | Doyall’s Plantation and Donaldsonville |
August | Attached to 2nd Brigade, Cavalry Division, Dept. of the Gulf |
October 5-9 | Expedition from Baton Rouge, La., to Clinton, Greensburg, Osyka and Camp Moore |
October 5 | Bayou Sara |
November 14-21 | Lee’s Expedition from Baton Rouge to Brookhaven, Miss., and skirmishes |
November 15 | Brookhaven, Miss. |
November 21 | Near Jackson |
November 23 | Clinton |
November 24 | Liberty, Miss. |
November 27 – December 13 | Davidson’s Expedition from Baton Rouge, La., against Mobile & Ohio Railroad |
November 27 | Franklinsville |
December 22 | The steamship North America sank off the coast of Florida, drowning many men of the regiment |
December 27 | Ocean Springs |
1865
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February | Ordered to Memphis, Tenn. and attached to 2nd Brigade, Cavalry Division, District of West Tennessee |
March 3-11 | Expedition from Memphis, Tenn., into Northern Mississippi |
March 28, April 18 | Germantown |
March-September | Duty at Memphis, Tenn., and in District of West Tennessee |
July 21, 1865 | Consolidated to a Battalion |
September 30 | Mustered out at Memphis, Tenn. and honorably discharged from service. |