United States Regiments & Batteries > Pennsylvania
The Ringgold Cavalry lost 3 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 1 officer and 18 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.
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1861
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| June 29 | Organized at Washington, Pa. as an independent company |
| July | Ordered to West Virginia and attached to Army of Occupation, West Virginia |
| July 6-17 | Campaign in West Virginia attached to the Cheat Mountain District |
| July 11 | Rich Mountain |
| July 13-14 | Carrick’s Ford |
| September 2 | Burlington |
| September 11-17 | Operations on Cheat Mountain |
| September 12 | Petersburg |
| September 23 | Romney, Hanging Rock |
| September 23-25 | Romney |
| October 26 | Mill Creek Mills, Romney |
| November 13 | Near Romney |
| November | At Romney |
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1862
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| January 6-7 | Expedition to Blue’s Gap attached to Lander’s Division |
| January 7 | Hanging Rock Pass |
| February 14 | Bloomery Furnace |
| March 7-15 | Advance on Winchester attached to Hatch’s Cavalry Command, Banks’ 5th Corps |
| March 18 | Strasburg |
| March 22 | Kernstown |
| March 23 | Battle of Winchester |
| April 15 | Columbia Furnace |
| April 17 | Two Churches and Rood’s Hill |
| April | Duty in Railroad District, West Virginia attached to Mountain Dept. |
| July | Attached to Railroad District, 8th Corps, Middle Dept. |
| August 15 | North River Mills |
| August 18 | Huttonsville |
| September | Expanded in the field to Ringgold Cavalry Battalion by consolidation with:Lieutenant Hugh Keys’ Washington (Pa.) Cavalry (organized at Washington, Pa., June 29, 1861)
Captain George T. Work’s Washington County Company (organized September 6, 1862) Captain Henry H. Young’s Cavalry, organized (September 6, 1862) Guard and scout duty in the Railroad District and on Upper Potomac, West Virginia attached to Railroad District, 8th Corps, Middle Dept. |
| Captain Andrew J. Barr’s Cavalry Company (organized October 13, 1862) andCaptain James Y. Chessrown’s Cavalry Company, (organized October 14, 1862) added to the battalion. | |
| October 29 | Ridgeville Road, near Petersburg, W. Va. |
| November 9 | Moorefield, South Fork Potomac |
| December 3 | Moorefield |
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1863
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| February 16 | Near Romney. Attached to Defenses Upper Potomac, 8th Corps, Middle Dept |
| March | Attached to 4th Brigade, 1st Division, 8th Corps |
| April 6-7 | Near Burlington |
| April 6-7 | Purgetsville and Going’s Ford |
| April 26 | Burlington |
| June | Attached to Campbell’s Brigade, Scammon’s Division, Dept. West Virginia |
| September 4 & 11 | Moorefield |
| November 10 | Captain John Keys died of disease at Beallsville, Pennsylvania |
| December 16 | Descent upon Salem, Va. |
| December 19 | Jackson River, near Covington |
| December 31 | Operations in Hampshire and Hardy Counties, W. Va. attached to 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, West Virginia |
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1864
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| January 1-5 | Operations in Hampshire and Hardy Counties, W. Va. |
| January 27-February 5 | Operations in Hampshire and Hardy Counties, W. Va. |
| January 29-30 | Medley, Williamsport, |
| January 30 | Evacuation of Petersburg |
| February 4 | Moorefield |
| February 29-March 5 | Expedition to Petersburg |
| March 3 | Petersburg |
| February 22 | Transferred to 22nd Pennsylvania Cavalry |