United States Regiments & Batteries > Pennsylvania
The 22nd Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment lost 33 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 1 officer and 96 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.
1863
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June and July | Organized at Harrisburg for six months service |
June-July | Engaged in guarding fords of the Susquehanna above and below Harrisburg, and picketing roads into Cumberland Valley |
July 6-24 | Pursuit of Lee |
August | Moved to Harper’s Ferrfor duty there and and in the Shenandoah Valley. Attached to Cavalry Brigade, 1st Division, Dept. West Virginia |
October 13 | Action at Burlington, W. Va. |
November 16 | Mt. Jackson and Upperville |
1864
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February 5 | Mustered out |
February | Re-Organized at Chambersburg by consolidation of a battalion of six months Cavalry and the Ringgold Cavalry Battalion of five Companies |
February 22 | Washington County Cavalry Company and Lafayette Cavalry Company consolidated with the regiment |
March 1 | Moved to Martinsburg, W. Va. then to Cumberland, Md. Attached to Reserve Division, Dept. of West Virginia |
March 5 | Jacob C. Higgins, former lieutenant colonel of the 1st Pennsylvania Cavalry and colonel of the 125th Pennsylvania Infantry, was appointed colonel. |
April | Attached to 2nd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, Army of West Virginia. Dismounted men attached to Reserve Division, Pleasant Valley, Md., Dept. West Virginia |
April 30-May 16 | Sigel’s Expedition from Martinsburg to New Market |
May 10 | Lost River Gap |
May 12 | Lynchburg |
May 15 | New MarketDismounted men at Camp Stoneman |
May 17-18 | Lynchburg |
May 26-July 1 | Hunter’s Expedition to Lynchburg |
June 5 | Piedmont, Mt. Crawford |
June 6 | Occupation of Staunton |
June 16 | Dismounted men at Martinsburg attached to Kelly’s Command, West Virginia |
June 19 | Newtown |
June 20 | Salem |
June 21 | Catawba Mountains |
July 3 | Dismounted men at Leetown and Darkesville. |
July 4-7 | Dismounted men – Operations about Harper’s Ferry |
July 5-15 | Regiment moved to Shenandoah Valley |
July 6 | Dismounted men at Hagerstown, Md. |
July 6-7 | Dismounted men at Maryland Heights |
July 7 | Dismounted men at Antietam Bridge |
July 17-18 | Regiment at Snicker’s Ferry |
July 19 | Ashby’s Gap and Berry’s Ford |
July 22 | Dismounted men ordered to Pleasant Valley. Colonel Higgins temporarily took command of the brigade as senior officer. |
July 23 | Regiment near Kernstown |
July 24 |
Second Battle of Kernstown |
July 25 | Bunker Hill and Martinsburg |
July 29 | Colonel Higgins was dismissed for having caused a panic among the teamsters at Kernstown. He would be reinstated in October. |
August 7 | Near Moorefield |
August 8 | Dismounted men joined Torbert |
August | Regiment reunited at Hagerstown and was attached to 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, Cavalry Corps, Army Shenandoah |
August to November |
Sheridan’s Shenandoah Valley Campaign |
August 19 | Near Opequan Creek |
August 20 | Opequan Creek |
August 21 | Near Berryville and Summit Point |
August 21-22 | Charlestown |
August 26 | Williamsport |
August 31 | Martinsburg |
September 2 | Darkesville |
September 2-3 | Bunker Hill |
September 10 | Darkesville |
September 13 | Bunker Hill |
September 14 | Near Berryville |
September 18 | Near Martinsburg |
September 19 |
Third Battle of Winchester (Opequan) |
September 22 |
Fisher’s Hill |
September 23-24 | Mt. Jackson |
September 24 | Forest Hill or Timberville |
September 26 | Brown’s Gap |
September 26-27 | Weyer’s Cave |
September 28 | Port Republic |
October 19 |
Battle of Cedar Creek |
October 23 | Dry Run |
October 25 | Colonel Higgins’ dismissal from Kernstown was revoked due to insufficient evidence. |
October | Moved to Martinsburg |
December 20 | At New Creek and duty in Hardy, Hampshire and Pendleton Counties. Attached to Reserve Division, Department of West Virginia |
1865
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January 11-15 | Scout to Greenland Gap and Franklin |
March 14-17 | Scout to Moorefield |
April | Attached to 2nd Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, West Virginia |
June 24 | Consolidated with 18th Pennsylvania Cavalry to form 3rd Provisional Cavalry |