The regiment lost 4 officers and 81 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 2 officers and 256 enlisted men by disease, a total of 343. The regiment, along with the other regiments of the Wolverine Brigade, is honored by a monument at Gettysburg.
October, 1862, to
June, 1863 |
Organized at Grand Rapids, Mich. |
February 20 |
1st Battalion left State for Washington, D.C. |
May |
Balance of Regiment left State for Washington, D.C.; Attached to Provisional Cavalry Brigade, Casey's Division, Defenses of Washington, 22nd Army Corps |
April |
Attached to1st Brigade, Stahel's Cavalry Division, 22nd Army Corps, Dept. of Washington |
June |
Attached to2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, Cavalry Corps, Army of the Potomac |
May 21 |
Action at Thoroughfare Gap, Va. |
May 30 |
Greenwich |
June 27-28 |
Expedition up the Catoctin Valley |
June 28 |
Occupation of Gettysburg, Pa. |
June 30 |
Hanover, Pa. |
July 1-3 |
Battle of Gettysburg, Pa. |
July 2 |
Hunterstown |
July 4 |
Monterey |
July 5 |
Smithburg |
July 6 |
Williamsport and Hagerstown |
July 8 |
Boonsboro |
July 11-13 |
Hagerstown |
July 14 |
Falling Waters |
July 19 |
Snicker's Gap |
August 1-8 |
Expedition from Warrenton Junction, between Bull Run and Blue Ridge Mountains |
August 15 |
Hartwood Church |
August 24 |
King George Court House |
September 1-3 |
Expedition to Port Conway |
September 13-17 |
Advance from the Rappahannock to the Rapidan |
September 13 |
Culpeper Court House |
September 14-16 |
Raccoon Ford |
September 17 |
Raccoon Ford |
September 21-23 |
Reconnaissance across the Rapidan |
September 21-22 |
White's Ford |
September 22 |
Orange Court House |
October 8-22 |
Bristoe Campaign |
October 8 |
Robertson's River |
October 8-10 |
Jams City |
October 10 |
Bethesda Church |
October 11 |
Near Culpeper and Brandy Station |
October 14 |
Gainesville |
October 17-18 |
Groveton |
October 19 |
Gainesville, Catlett's Station and Buckland's Mills |
November 6 |
Near Falmouth |
November 7-8 |
Advance to line of the Rappahannock |
November 8 |
Stevensburg |
November 26-
December 2 |
Mine Run Campaign |
November 26 |
Morton's Ford |
November 26-27 |
Raccoon Ford |
February 6-7, 1864 |
Demonstration on the Rapidan |
February 28-
March 4 |
Kilpatrick's Raid on Richmond |
March 1 |
Fortifications of Richmond and Atlee's |
March |
1st Brigade, 1st Division, Cavalry Corps, Army of the Potomac and Middle Military Division |
May 3-June 24 |
Campaign from the Rapidan to the James River |
May 5-7 |
Battles of the Wilderness |
May 5-6 |
Todd's Tavern |
May 6 |
Brook Road and the Furnaces |
May 7-8 |
Todd's Tavern |
May 9-24 |
Sheridan's Raid to the James River |
May 9 |
Beaver Dam Station |
May 11 |
Ground Squirrel Church and Yellow Tavern |
May 12 |
Meadow Bridge and fortifications of Richmond |
May 16 |
Malvern Hill |
May 21 |
Hanover Court House |
May 26-28 |
On line of the Pamunkey |
May 27 |
Hanovertown Ferry, Hanovertown and Crump's Creek |
May 28-31 |
On line of the Totopotomoy |
May 28 |
Haw's Shop and Aenon Church |
May 30 |
Old Church and Mattadequin Creek |
May 21-June 1 |
Bethesda Church, Cold Harbor |
June 1 |
Bottom's 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's Station, and White House, or St. Peter's Church |
June 23 |
Jones' Bridge |
July 11-12 |
Fort Stevens and along Northern Defenses of Washington (Detachment) |
July 27-29 |
Demonstration North of the James River |
July 27-29 |
Deep Bottom |
August |
Ordered to Washington, D.C. |
August 7 |
Sheridan's Shenandoah Valley Campaign begins |
August 11 |
Tell Gate, near White Post, and near Winchester |
August 16 |
Cedarville, or Front Royal |
August 23 |
Kearneysville |
August 25 |
Kearneysville and Shephardstown |
August 28 |
Leetown and Smithfield |
September 29 |
Smithfield Crossing of the Opequan |
September 13 |
Locke's Ford, Opequan Creek |
September 15 |
Sevier's Ford, Opequan |
September 19 |
Battle of Opequan, Winchester |
September 21 |
Fisher's Hill |
September 22 |
Milford |
September 24 |
Luray |
September 26-28 |
Port Republic |
October 2 |
Mr. Crawford |
October 6 |
Salem Church |
October 8 |
Luray Valley |
October 8-9 |
Tom's Brook ("Woodstock Races") |
October 19 |
Battle of Cedar Creek |
November 7 |
Edenburg |
November 11 |
Near Kernstown |
November 28-
December 3 |
Expedition into Loudoun and Faquier Counties |
December 19-28 |
Raid to Gordonsville |
December 21 |
Madison Court House |
December 22 |
Liberty Mills |
December 23 |
Near Gordonsville |
February 13-17, 1865 |
Expedition to Little Fort Valley |
February 28 -
March 25 |
Sheridan's Raid from Winchester to James River |
March 2 |
Occupation of Staunton and action at Waynesboro |
March 8 |
Duguidsville |
March 28- April 9 |
Appomattox Campaign |
March 30-31 |
Dinwiddie Court House |
April 1 |
Five Forks |
April 2 |
Scott's Cross Roads |
April 4 |
Tabernacle Church, or Beaver Bend Creek |
April 6 |
Sailor's Creek |
April 8 |
Appomattox Station |
April 9 |
Appomattox Court House, surrender of Lee and his army |
April 23-27 |
Expedition to Danville |
May |
March to Washington, D.C. |
May 23 |
Grand Review |
June 1 |
Moved to Leavenworth, Kansas; District of the Plains, Dept. of Missouri; Powder River Expedition and operations against Indians in District of the Plains and Dakota |
September |
District of Dakota |
December 15, 1865 |
Regiment mustered out. Veterans and recruits transferred to 1st Michigan Cavalry |
