United States Regiments & Batteries > New York
“Empire Light Cavalry”
The regiment lost 5 officers and 29 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 3 officers and 212 enlisted men to disease, a total of 249.
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1863
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| Organized at Saratoga Springs, N.Y. from the discharged 30th New York Infantry Regiment | |
| August 15 | Company A mustered in and left state for Washington, D.C. under Colonel Morgan H. Chrysler. Attached to Cavalry Division, 22nd Army Corps for duty in the Defenses of Washington |
| August 25 | Companies B and F mustered in and left state to join regiment |
| September 8 | Companies D and “E mustered in and left state to join regiment |
| September 9 | Company C mustered in and left state to join regiment |
| October 10 | Company G mustered in and left state to join regiment |
| October 16 | Company H mustered in and left state to join regiment |
| November 10 | Companies I and K mustered in and left state to join regiment |
| December 3 | Company L mustered in and left state to join regiment |
| December 30 | M mustered in at Cavalry Depot, Washington, D.C., |
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1864
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| February | Ordered to Dept. of the Gulf and attached to 5th Brigade, Cavalry Division, 19th Army Corps, Department 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 8 | Sabine Cross Roads |
| April 9 | Pleasant Hill |
| April 14 | Bayou Saline |
| April 19 | Natchitoches |
| April 22-24 | About Cloutiersville |
| April 23 | Cane River Crossing |
| May 3 | Bayou Roberts |
| May 4-5 | Near Wilson’s Landing |
| May 6 | Well’s and Moore’s Plantations |
| May 13-20 | Retreat to Morganza |
| May 16 | Mansura |
| May 17 | Near Moreauville |
| May 18 | Bayou de Glaze |
| May 18 | Simsport |
| May 29-June 6 | Expedition from Morganza to the Atchafalaya River |
| May 29 | Bayou Fordyce Road |
| May 30 | Livonia |
| June 1-3 | Bayou Grosse Tete |
| June | Assigned to 4th Brigade, Cavalry Division, Dept. of the Gulf |
| June 24 | Near Morganza |
| July 18 | Franklin |
| July 27 | Atchafalaya River |
| July 28 | Morgan’s Ferry Road and Atchafalaya River |
| August 9 | Martnquin Bayou |
| August 10 | Rosedale |
| August 23-29 | Expedition to Clinton. Assigned to Separate Cavalry Brigade, Dept. of the Gulf |
| Augrist 28 | Morgan’s Ferry, on Atchafalaya River (Detachment) |
| September 13-17 | Expedition from Morganza to Fausse River |
| September 13 and 16 |
Bayou Maringowen |
| September 15 | Rosedale |
| September 20 | Bayou Alabama and Morgan’s Ferry |
| October 4 | St. Francisville |
| October 5 | Bayou Rara |
| October 16 | Fausse River |
| November 10 | McLeod’s Mills |
| November 15 | Clinton and Liberty Creek, Miss. |
| November 27-December 13 | Davidson’s Expedition from Baton Rouge against Mobile & Ohio Railroad |
| November 27 | State Line, Pascagoula River, Miss. |
| December 13-14 | Expedition to Morgan’s Ferry. Assigned to Separate Cavalry Brigade, Reserve Division, Military Division West Mississippi |
| December 16-19 | Expedition from Atchafalaya River |
| December 22 | A large number of sick men from the regiment being sent back north drowned when the steamship North America sank off the Florida coast. |
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1865
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| January 31 | Expedition from Morganza to New Roads |
| February 7-10 | Scouts to Fausse River and Grosse Tete Bayou (Detachment) |
| February | Moved to Barrancas, Fla. Assigned to Separate Cavalry Brigade, District of West Florida |
| March 20-April 1 | March to Fort Blakely, Ala. assigned to 1st Brigade, Lucas’ Cavalry Division, Military Division West Mississippi |
| March 21 | College Hill, Fla. |
| March 23 | Pine Barren Creek |
| March 25 | Canoe Creek or Bluff Springs and Bluff Springs |
| March 26 | Pollard, Ala. |
| April 1-9 | Siege operations against Fort Blakely assigned to 3rd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, Dept. of the Gulf |
| April 9-17 | Expedition from Blakely to Claiborne |
| April 11 | Near Mt. Pleasant |
| April 17-30 | Grierson’s Raid through Alabama and Georgia |
| July | Duty in District of Alabama, Dept. of the Gulf |
| November 8 | Mustered out at Talladega, Ala. |