United States Regiments & Batteries > New York
The 20th New York Cavalry Regiment lost 5 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 2 officers and 125 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.
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1863
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| Organized at Sackett’s Harbor, N.Y. | |
| September 3 | Companies A to G mustered in |
| September 4 | Company H mustered in |
| September 17 | Companies I and K |
| September 22 | Company L mustered in |
| September 23 | Company M mustered in |
| September 30 | Left State for Washington, D.C. |
| October and November | Moved to Portsmouth, Va., by Detachments and attached to United States Forces, Portsmouth, Va., Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina |
| November | Duty in the Defenses of Portsmouth, Va. |
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1864
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| January | Attached to Heckman’s Division, 18th Army Corps, Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina |
| February 1 | Action at Smithfield, Va. |
| February 20 | Suffolk |
| April | Attached to Defenses of Portsmouth, Va., Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina |
| May | Attached to District of Eastern Virginia, Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina |
| June 6 | Chuckatuck |
| June 24 | Wood’s Mills Hill |
| July 3 | South Quay |
| July 27-August 4 | Expedition from Suffolk into North Carolina |
| July 29 | Winston, N. C. |
| August 12 | Guiam’s Ford, N. C. |
| September 3 | Jamestown Island |
| October 15-17 | Expedition from Bermuda Mills to Murfrees Depot, N. C. (Companies D, I & K) |
| October 16 | Blackwater |
| December to April |
Before Petersburg and RichmondAttached to 1st Brigade, Kautz’s Cavalry Division, Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina Company D at Fort Pocohontas attached to Separate Brigade, Defenses of Bermuda Hundred, Va., Army of the James Company F at Fort Powhatan attached to Separate Brigade, Defenses of Bermuda Hundred, Va, |
| December 6-10 | Expedition from Portsmouth to Hertford, N. C. (Detachment) |
| December 11-19 | Operations about Broadwater River and Chowan River |
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1865
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| January 13 | Darbytown Road |
| March | Company G attached to 1st Brigade, McKenzie’s Cavalry Division, Army of the JamesCompany I with Provisional Division, Army of the James |
| April 1-9 |
Appomattox Campaign(Companies G and I) Attached to Cavalry Brigade, Dept. of Virginia |
| April 1 |
Battle of Five Forks |
| April 2 | Fall of Petersburg |
| April 3-4 | Deep Creek |
| April 6 | Rice’s Station |
| April 7 | Burke’s Station |
| April 9 |
Appomattox Court HouseSurrender of Lee and his army. |
| April-July | Duty in the Dept. of Virginia |
| July 31 | Mustered out and honorably discharged from service. |