United States Regiments & Batteries > New York > Cavalry
“Van Allen” Cavalry
The 3rd New York Cavalry Regiment lost 3 officers and 45 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 1 officer and 150 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.
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1861
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| Regiment organized by Companies | |
| July 17 | Company A organized at Rochester |
| July 30 | Company E organized at Syracuse |
| August 4 | Company C organized at Rochester |
| August 12 | Company D organized at Albany |
| August 20 | Company F organized at Rochester |
| August 21 | Company G organized at Boonville |
| August 22 | Company E organized at Elmira |
| August 23 | Company K transferred from Company G, 13th New York Infantry |
| August 27 | Company H organized at Rochester and Company I at Syracuse |
| September 9 | Regiment organized under Colonel James H. Van Alen at Meridian Hill, Washington, D.C. Attached to Banks’ Division, Army of the Potomac, and six companies to Stone’s Division, Army of the Potomac for duty In the Defenses of Washington, D.C., and on the Upper Potomac. |
| September 10 | Company M organized at Albany |
| October 21-24 | Operations on the Potomac |
| October 21 | Near Goose Creek and on Leesburg Road |
| October 21 | Ball’s Bluff |
| October 22 | Near Edward’s Ferry |
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1862
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| March | Assigned to Defenses of Washington, D.C. |
| March 5 | Bunker Hill, W. Va. |
| March 10 | Winchester |
| April 6 | Ordered to Dept. of North Carolina |
| April 27 | Haughton’s Mills |
| May 7 | Near Burnt Church |
| May 15-16 | Reconnaissance toward Trenton |
| May 15 | Trenton Bridge |
| May 15-16 | Young’s Cross Roads and Pollocksville |
| May 30 | Tranter’s Creek (Company I) |
| May 31 | Greenville Road |
| June 2, 5 & 24 | Tranter’s Creek (Company I) |
| June 28 | Swift Creek Bridge (Detachment) |
| July 10 | Tranter’s Creek |
| July 24-28 | Expedition to Trenton and Pollocksville |
| July 25 | Trenton and Pollocksville |
| July 26 | Mill Creek and Pollocksville (Company K) |
| July 26-29 | Reconnaissance to Young’s Cross Roads (Detachments) |
| July 27 | Near Young’s Cross Roads |
| August 6 | Trenton and Kinston Road |
| August 14-15 | Reconnaissance to Swansboro |
| September 6 | Washington, N. C. (Cos. D, G, H, I and L) |
| September 9 | Tranter’s Creek |
| September 13 | Company L organized at Cincinnati, Ohio |
| October 5 | Washington |
| October 29 | Pingo Creek |
| October 30-November 12 | Expedition from New Berne |
| November 2 | Rawle’s Mills |
| November 5 | Near Tarboro |
| November 11 | Demonstration on Newberne |
| November 18 | Core Creek |
| December 11-20 | Foster’s Expedition to Goldsboro. Assigned to 18th Army Corps, Dept. of North Carolina |
| December 11-12 | Kinston Road |
| December 13-14 | Southwest Creek |
| December 14 | Kinston |
| December 15 | Whitehall Bridge |
| December 16 | Olive Station, Goshen Swamp and Whitehall |
| December 17 | Dudley Station, Thompson’s Bridge and Goldsboro |
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1863
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| January 8 | Core Creek |
| January 17-21 | Reconnaissance to Pollocksville, Tranter’s, Young’s Cross Roads and Onslow |
| January 17 | Pollocksville and Northeast River |
| January 18 | Near Tranter’s |
| January- 18-19 | Young’s Cross Roads |
| January 19 | White Oak Creek |
| January 20 | Near Jacksonville |
| February 13 | Sandy Ridge and near Washington |
| February 27 | Near Newberne |
| March 1-6 | Expedition to Swann’s Quarter (Company F) |
| March 3 | Near Fairfield (Company F) and Skeet |
| March 3-4 | Near Fairfield and Swann’s Quarter (Company F) |
| March 6-8 | Demonstration on Kinston (Companies A, E and H) |
| March 7 | Core Creek (Companies A, E and H) and Dover (Company H) |
| March 7-14 | Expedition to Mattamuskeet Lake (Company F) |
| March 13-14 | Deep Gully New Berne (Detachment) |
| March 30- April 20 |
Siege of Washington, North Carolina (1 Company) |
| April 3 | White Forks |
| April 4 | Gum Swamp |
| April 4 | Swann’s Quarter |
| April 4-5 | Rodman’s Point (1 Co.) |
| April 7 | Near Dover, Core Creek and Young’s Cross Roads |
| April 8 | Little Swift Creek |
| April 9 | Blount’s and Swift Creek |
| April 13-21 | Expedition to Swift Creek Village (Detachment) |
| April 13-14 | Trent Road |
| April 15 | Near Newberne |
| April 16 | Peletier’s Mills |
| April 16-21 | Expedition toward Kinston (Company H) |
| April 17-19 | Expedition to Little Washington (Detachment) |
| April 17-18 | Railroad Crossing, Core Creek |
| April 19 | Big Swift Creek |
| April 20 | Sandy Ridge (Company H) |
| April 27-May 1 | Expedition toward Kinston (Detachment) |
| April 28 | Wise’s Cross Roads and Dover Road |
| April 29 | Near Core Creek |
| April 30 | Core Creek |
| May | Assigned to Cavalry Brigade, 18th Corps |
| May 5 | Evans’ Mills |
| May 5 | Peletter’s Mills (4 Cos.) |
| May 7 | Stony Creek (4 Cos.) |
| May 20-23 | Demonstration on Kinston (4 Cos.) |
| May 22 | Gum Swamp (4 Cos.) |
| May 23 | Bachelor’s Creek |
| May 24 | Washington |
| May 31-June 2 | Tranter’s Creek, Jacksonville |
| June 16 | Plymouth |
| June 17-18 | Scout |
| July | Defenses of New Berne, N. C., Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina |
| July 3-7 | Raid on Wilmington & Weldon Railroad (Detachment) |
| July 4 | Hallsville |
| July 5 | Warsaw and Kenensville |
| July 8 | Trenton |
| July 18-24 | Tar River Expedition |
| July 18 | Swift Creek |
| July 19 | Near Greenville |
| July 20 | Sparta, Tarboro and Rocky Mount Station |
| July 21 | Hookerstown |
| July 22 | Swift Creek and Street’s Ferry |
| July 22 | Scupperton |
| July 26 | Pollocksville |
| October | Heckman’s Command, Newport News, Va., Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina |
| October 7 | Near New Berne |
| November 3 | Camden Court House and Dismal Swamp |
| December | Assigned to Heckman’s Command, Portsmouth, Va., Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina |
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1862
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| January 18- February 4 |
Operations about New Berne against Whiting |
| February 6-8 | Wistar’s Expedition toward Richmond |
| February 7 | Bettom’s Bridge and Baltimore Cross Roads |
| March | Suffolk, Va. |
| April | Assigned to 1st Brigade, Kautz’s Cavalry Division, Army of the James, Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina |
| May 5-11 | Kautz’s Raid against Petersburg & Weldon Railroad |
| May 5 | Wall’s Bridge |
| May 7 | Stony Creek Station, Weldon Railroad |
| May 8 | Nottaway Railroad Bridge |
| May 8-9 | White’s Bridge, Nottaway River |
| May 12-17 | Kautz’s Raid on Richmond & Danville Railroad |
| May 14 | Flat Creek Bridge, near Chula Depot |
| May 16 | Belcher’s Mills |
| May 17-30 | Bermuda Hundred |
| June 2 | Near Hatcher’s Run |
| June 9 | Near Petersburg |
| June 15 | Baylor’s Farm |
| June 15-18 | Assaults on Petersburg; Siege operations against Petersburg and Richmond begin |
| June 22-30 | Wilson’s Raid on South Side & Danville Railroad |
| June 25 | Roanoke Bridge |
| June 28 | Sappony Church or Stony Creek |
| June 29 | Ream’s Station |
| July 27-29 | Deep Bottom |
| August 1 | Malvern Hill |
| August 19-21 | Yellow Tavern |
| August 23-25 | Ream’s Station |
| August 31 | Lee’s Mills |
| September 5-6 | Reconnaissance to Sycamore Church |
| September 15 | Prince George Court House |
| September 16 | Jerusalem Plank Road and Sycamore Church |
| September 22 | Prince George Court House |
| September 28-30 | Chaffin’s Farm |
| October 1 | Charles City Cross Roads |
| October 7 and 13 | Derbytown Road |
| October 7 | Johnson’s Farm and New Market Road |
| October 8 | Chaffin’s Farm |
| October 20 | Charles City Cross Roads |
| October 27-28 | Fair Oaks |
| November 1 | Charles City Cross Roads |
| November 15 | Darbytown Road |
| December | Moved to Norfolk, Va. and duty there |
| December 11-19 | Operations about Broadwater Ferry, Chowan River |
| December-July | Duty at Suffolk, Portsmouth and Norfolk |
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1865
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| January 2 | Scout to South Quay (Companies A, B, C, H and L) |
| March 10-11 | Expedition to Murfree’s Depot, N. C. |
| March 11 | South Quay |
| July 21 | Consolidated with 1st New York Mounted Rifles to form 4th Regiment Provisional Cavalry. |