United States Regiments & Batteries > New York
“Cornish Light Cavalry”
The 18th New York Cavalry Regiment lost 1 officer and 10 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 2 officers and 203 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.
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1863
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| Organized at New York | |
| July 13-16 | New York Riots |
| July 18 | Company A mustered in |
| July 19 | Company B mustered in |
| August 12 | Company C mustered in |
| August 25 | Company D mustered in |
| August 15 | Company E mustered in |
| August 31 | Company F mustered in |
| September-26 | Companies A to F left State for Washington, D.C. Attached to Defenses of Washington, 22nd Army Corps |
| October 13 | Company G mustered in |
| October 23 | Companies G and H left State for Washington, D.C. |
| October 31 | Company H mustered in |
| December 2 | Company I mustered in |
| December 13 | Companies I and K left State for Washington D.C. |
| December | Attached to Cavalry Division, 22nd Army Corps |
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1864
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| January | Companies K, L & M mustered in and Companies L and M leave State for Washington D.C. |
| February 16 | Ordered to the Dept. of the GuIf. Attached to 5th Brigade, Cavalry Division, Dept. of the Gulf |
| March 10-May 22 | Red River Campaign |
| March 14-26 | Advance from Franklin to Alexandria |
| March 29-30 | Monett’s Ferry and Cloutiersville |
| March 31 | Natchitoches |
| April 4 | CamptI |
| April 7 | Pleasant Hill |
| April 8 | Sabine Cross Roads |
| April 9 | Pleasant Hill |
| April 10 | Grand Ecore |
| April 14 | Bayou Salins |
| April 15 | Campti |
| April 16 | Grand Ecore |
| April 17-18 | Bayou Salina |
| April 19 | Natchitoches |
| April 22-24 | About Cloutiersville |
| April 23 | Monett’s Ferry, Cane River Crossing |
| April 29 | Grand Ecore |
| May 1 | Near Alexandria |
| May 3 | Bayou Roberts |
| May 4-5 | Moore’s Plantation |
| May 5-6 | Well’s Plantation |
| May 8 | Near Alexandria |
| May 10 | Bayou Rapides |
| May 11-12 | Near Alexandria |
| May 13-20 | Retreat to Morganza |
| May 15-16 | Mansura |
| May 17 | Near Moreauville |
| May 17-18 | Yellow Bayou |
| May 24 | Morganza |
| May-January | Duty in the Defenses of New Orleans attached to District of LaFourche, La., Dept. of the Gulf |
| June | Companies A and F detached in Texas |
| June 25 | Companies A and F – Parish Vico, Texas |
| July 12 | Pattersonville |
| July 14 | Centreville |
| July 18 | Franklin |
| July | At LaFourche |
| July 25 | Companies A and F – Brownsville and Rancho San Pedro |
| August 14 | Companies A and F – Clarksville |
| November | At Bonnet Carre |
| January | Attached to Southern Division of Louisiana, Dept. of the Gulf |
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1865
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| March 26-29 | Expedition from Brashear City to Amite River (Detachment) |
| April | Duty in District of Louisiana attached to 1st Brigade, 2nd Cavalry Division, Military Division of West Mississippi |
| June | Attached to Dept. of Louisiana |
| September | Attached to Dept. of Texas |
| November | At various points In Texas |
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1866
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| May 31 | Mustered out at Victoria, Texas, 1866, and honorably discharged from service. |