United States Regiments & Batteries > New York


The 1st New York Veteran Cavalry Regiment lost 4 officers and 56 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 1 officer and 89 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.

1863
Organized at Geneva, N.Y. under Colonel Robert F. Taylor
July 31 Company A mustered in for three years service and moved to Washington, D.C. for duty in the defenses of Washington. Attached to Cavalry Division, 22nd Army Corps, Dept. of Washington.
September 8 Company B mustered in and moved to Washington, D.C.
October 10 Companies C – K mustered in at Elmira, N.Y. and moved to Washington, D.C.
November 7 Company L mustered in and moved to Washington, D.C.
November 19 Company M mustered in and moved to Washington, D.C.
1864
February Attached to Cavalry Brigade, 1st Division, Army of West Virginia
February 20
Action near Upperville, Va.

The regiment lost 1 officer and 2 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded, 3 enlisted men wounded, and 6 men missing or captured.

March 6
Snickersville

The regiment lost 5 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded, 18 enlisted men wounded, and 2 officers and 16 men missing or captured.

March 10
Kablestown

The regiment lost 1 officer and 6 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded, 1 officer and 12 enlisted men wounded, and 2 officers and 16 men missing or captured.

April Attached to 1st Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, Army of West Virginia
April 30-May 16 Sigel’s Expedition from Martinsburg to New Market
May 10
Near Paris and Salem

The regiment lost 1 man killed and 1 man missing or captured

May 13 Mt. Jackson
May 15
New Market

The regiment lost 11 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded, 1 officer and 24 enlisted men wounded, and 29 men missing or captured.

May 26-July 1 Hunter’s Raid on Lynchburg
May 28
Woodstock

The regiment lost 5 men missing or captured

May 29-30
Newtown

The regiment lost 1 officer killed and 2 men missing or captured

May 31
Woodstock

The regiment lost 2 men missing or captured

June 1
New Market

The regiment lost 11 men missing or captured

June 3-4 Harrisonburg
June 5
Piedmont

The regiment lost 12 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded, 9 enlisted men wounded, and 19 men missing or captured.

June 6 Occupation of Staunton
June 10 WaynesboroThe regiment lost 1 officer killed, 1 officer and 1 enlisted men wounded, and 4 men missing or captured.
June 11 Cheat Mountain The regiment lost 1 man mortally wounded and 1 man missing or captured
June 13 Lexington
June 14 Buchanan
June 17 Diamond Hill The regiment lost 1 man missing or captured
June 17-18
Lynchburg

The regiment lost 2 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 6 enlisted men wounded.

June 19 Liberty
June 20 Buford’s Gap
June 21 Catawba Mountains and Salem
June 25 White Sulphur Springs
June 28 and July 2
Bunker Hill

The regiment lost 1 enlisted man wounded, and 1 man missing or captured.

July Attached to 2nd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, Army of West Virginia
July 2
Near Martinsburg

The regiment lost 2 men missing or captured.

July 3
Leetown and Martinsburg

The regiment lost 3 men wounded, and 16 men missing or captured.

July 4
Sharpsburg, Md.

The regiment lost 1 man wounded, and 1 man missing or captured.

July 6
Sandy Hook

The regiment lost 1 man wounded, and 1 man missing or captured.

July 15-16 Near Hillsboro
July 17-18 Snicker’s Ferry
July 19 Ashby’s Gap and Berry’s Ford
July 22
Charlestown

The regiment lost 1 man wounded.

July 23 Near Kernstown
July 24 Kernstown, Winchester
July 25
Bunker Hill and Martinsburg

The regiment lost 1 officer and 3 men killed or mortally wounded, 1 officer and 6 mn wounded and 3 men missing or captured.

August 3
Duffield Station

The regiment lost 1 man killed and 1 man missing or captured.

August 12
Cedar Creek

The regiment lost 2 men missing or captured.

August 16
Berryville

The regiment lost 2 men missing or captured.

August 21-22
Near Charlestown

The regiment lost 1 man mortally wounded, and 1 man wounded.

August 24 Falling Waters
August Duty at Remount Camp, Cumberland, Md.
October Attached to 1st Separate Brigade, District of the Kanawha, Dept. of West Virginia
October 7 Company M was consolidated with Company A and a new Company M mustered in for one year service at Elmira.
November 5-12 Operations in Kanawha Valley against Witcher
November 12 Newtown and Nineveh
November 22 Rude’s Hill, near Mt. Jackson
Secember-July Duty in District of the Kanawha and in the Shenandoah Valley
1865
March Attached to Cavalry, Dept. of West Virginia
July 20 Mustered out and honorably discharged from service under Colonel John S. Platner at Camp Piatt, West Virginia.