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December 25 |
Companies A, B, C and D left State for Annapolis, Md. |
December 27 |
Second Battalion left State for New York |
December 29 |
Third Battalion left State for New York |
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January 13 |
Second and Third Battalion sailed for Hilton Head, S.C. |
January 20 |
Second and Third Battalion arrived Hilton Head, S.C. and duty there |
February |
Companies A, B, C and D moved to Hilton Head, S.C.; Regiment attached to Department of the South |
April |
Attached to 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, Dept. of the South |
May |
Cos. E - M moved to Edisto Island, S.C. |
June 1-28 |
Cos. E - M Operations on James Island, S.C. |
June 8 |
Cos. E - M Action James Island |
June 16 |
Co. H Battle of Secessionville |
June 28-July 7 |
Cos. E - M Evacuation of James Island and movement to Hilton Head. 3rd Battalion (Cos. I, K, L and M) duty in North Carolina until permanently detached from 1st Cavalry by S. C. 346, War Department, August 4, 1863, and designated Independent Battalion, Massachusetts Cavalry |
August 19 |
Companies A - H moved to Fort Monroe, then to Washington, D.C. |
September 3 |
Joined Pleasanton's Cavalry, Army of the Potomac, at Tenallytown and attached to Pleasanton's Cavalry, Army of the Potomac |
September 4-5 |
Poolesville, Md. |
September 10-11 |
Sugar Loaf Mountain |
September 14 |
South Mountain |
September 16-17 |
Battle of Antietam |
September 19 |
Shepherdstown, W. Va. |
October |
Attached to Averill's Brigade, Cavalry Division, Army of the Potomac |
October 16-17 |
Kearneysville, Shepherdstown and Smithfield |
October 30-
November 25 |
4 Companies with 5th Corps, 4 Companies near Hagerstown, Md. |
November 2-3 |
Bloomfield |
November 3-4 |
Snicker's Gap |
November 4 |
Markham Station |
November 5-6 |
Manassas Gap |
November 16-25 |
Moved to Washington and duty there refitting |
December 1 |
Reconnaissance to Grove Church |
December 12-15 |
Battle of Fredericksburg, Va. |
December 21-22 |
Reconnaissance toward Warrenton |
December 29-30 |
Expedition to Richard's and Ellis' Fords |
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January 8-10 |
Reconnaissance to Catlett's and Rappahannock Station |
January |
Attached to 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, Cavalry Corps, Army of the Potomac |
January 9 |
Elk Run, Catlett's Station |
January 9 |
Near Grove Church |
February 5 |
Destruction of Rappahannock Bridge |
February 25 |
Hartwood Church |
March 17 |
Kelly's Ford |
March 17 |
Bealeton |
April 29-May 6 |
Chancellorsville Campaign, Stoneman's Raid |
May 1 |
Rapidan Station |
June 3 |
Near Fayetteville |
June 9 |
Kelly's Ford, Brandy Station and Stevensburg |
June 17 |
Aldie |
June 21 |
Upperville |
July 2-3 |
Battle of Gettysburg
The regiment was commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Greely S. Curtis. It brought 292 men to the field, and suffered no losses. The regiment was temporarily attached to the 6th Corps Headquarters. |
July 4 |
Emmettsburg |
July 6-7 |
Williamsport |
July 14 |
Near Harper's Ferry, W. Va. |
July 10 |
Old Antietam Forge, near Leitersburg |
July 12 |
Jones' Cross Roads |
July 16 |
Shepherdstown |
July 31 |
Near Aldie |
August 4 |
Scout to Hazel River |
August 5 |
Rixeyville |
August 9 |
Welford's Ford |
August 24 |
Scout to Barbee's Cross Roads |
September 10-11 |
Scout to Middleburg |
September 13-17 |
Advance from the Rappahannock to the Rapidan |
September 13 |
Culpeper C. H. |
September 13-14-15 |
Rapidan Station |
October 9-22 |
Bristoe Campaign |
October 12 |
Warrenton (or White Sulphur Springs) |
October 14 |
Auburn and Bristoe; Brentsville |
October 15 |
Picket near Warrenton |
November 26-
December 2 |
Mine Run Campaign |
November 27 |
New Hope Church; Scout and picket duty at Warrenton |
December 5 to
January 14 |
4 new Companies, I, K, L, M organized |
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February 28-March 4
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Kilpatrick's Raid on Richmond |
March 1 |
Fortifications of Richmond |
April |
Cos. C, D at Headquarters Army of the Potomac to muster out |
May-June |
Rapidan Campaign |
May 5-6 |
Todd's Tavern |
May 6-7 |
Wilderness |
May 7-8 |
Todd's Tavern |
May 8 |
Corbin's Bridge, Spottsylvania |
May 9 |
Davenport Ford |
May 9-24 |
Sheridan's Raid to James River |
May 9-10 |
North Anna River |
May 11 |
Ground Squirrel Church, Ashland and Yellow Tavern |
May 12 |
Brooks' Church, or Richmond Fortifications |
May 26-28 |
Line of the Pamunkey |
May 28-31 |
Totopotomoy |
May 31-June 1 |
Cold Harbor |
June 1-7 |
About Cold Harbor |
June 2 |
Sumner's Upper Bridge |
June 7-24 |
Sheridan's Trevillian Raid |
June 11-12 |
Trevillian Station |
June 12 |
Newark, or Mallory's Cross Roads |
June 21 |
Black Creek, or Tunstall Station, and White House, or St. Peter's Church |
June 24 |
St. Mary's Church |
June 27-July 13 |
Camp at Prince George Court House |
July 12 |
Weldon Railroad and Warwick Swamp, then at Lee's Mills |
July 27-29 |
Demonstration on north side of James River |
July 27-28 |
Deep Bottom |
July 28 |
Malvern Hill |
July 30 |
Lee's Mills, and scouting duty |
August 14-18 |
Demonstration north of James River |
August 14 |
Gravel Hill |
August 14-18 |
Strawberry Plains |
August 18 |
Charles City Cross Roads |
August 19-21 |
Weldon Railroad |
August 23 |
Dinwiddie Road, near Ream's Station |
August 25 |
Ream's Station |
September 14 |
Hawkinsville |
September 16 |
Jerusalem Plank Road |
September 17 |
Belcher's Mills |
September 29-
October 2 |
Poplar Grove Church |
September 30 |
Davis' Farm |
September 30-
October 1 |
Arthur's Swamp |
October 1 |
Vaughan Road |
October 25 |
Old members left front for Massachusetts |
October 27-28 |
Boydton Plank Road, Hatcher's Run |
October 29 |
At McCann's Station |
November 7 |
Reconnaissance toward Stony Creek, then at Westbrook House |
December 1 |
Stony Creek Station |
December 7-12 |
Bellefield Raid |
December 9-10 |
Bellefield |
December 11 |
At Westbrook House |
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February 5-7 |
Dabney's Mills, Hatcher's Run |
February - March |
Provost duty at City Point |
April 2 |
Fall of Petersburg; attached to Provost Marshal's Command, Army of the Potomac |
May |
Headquarters, Army of the Potomac and Duty in the Defenses of Washington |
June 29 |
Mustered out |
July 24 |
Discharged at Readville, Mass |
