The Civil War in the East

2nd New Jersey Cavalry Regiment (32nd Volunteers)

The 2nd New Jersey Cavalry Regiment lost 3 officers and 48 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 190 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.

 

1863

June-July

Organized at Camp Parker, Trenton, N.J. under Colonel Joseph Karge

August 15

Mustered in

October 5

Left State for Washington, D.C. In camp near Alexandria, Va., attached to Stoneman's Cavalry Division, 22nd Army Corps, Dept. of Washington

October 18

Scout to Annandale (Companies B, C, G and L)

November 9-28

Moved to Eastport, Miss.

December 6

To Columbus, Ky. attached to District of Columbus, Ky., 6th Division, 16th Army Corps, Dept. of the Tennessee

December 15

To Union City, Tenn. Attached to Waring's Cavalry Brigade, 16th Army Corps

December 23

Garrison and scout duty at Paris, Tenn.

1864

January 16-20

Moved to Union City attached to 1st Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, 16th Army Corps

January 22-27

Expedition from Union City to Trenton

January 28-February 8

March from Union City to Memphis and Colliersville, Tenn.

February 11-26

Smith's Expedition to Okolona, Miss.

February 19

Aberdeen, Miss.

February 20

Prairie Station

February 20-21

West Point

February 21-22

Okolona

February 22

Ivy's Farm

February 23

Tallahatchie River

March 16-April 14

Operations against Forest in West Tennessee and Kentucky

April 5

Near Memphis

April 10

Raleigh

April 30-May 9

Sturgis' Expedition to Ripley, Miss.

May 2

Bolivar, Tenn.

May 23

Holly Springs

June 1-13

Sturgis' Expedition to Guntown

June 10

Brice's Cross Roads or Tishamingo Creek, near Guntown attached to 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, Cavalry Corps, District of West Tennessee

June 11

Ripley

June 25-July 5

Duty on Memphis & Charleston Railroad between Moscow and LaGrange

July 4-24

Expedition from Memphis to Grand Gulf, Miss. (Detachment)

July 5-6

Moved to Vicksburg, Miss.

July 14

Port Gibson

July 15-16

Grand Gulf

August 1-30

Smith's Expedition to Oxford, Miss.

August 9

Hurricane Creek and Oxford

August 14

Tallahatchie River

August 19

Waterford

August 31

Duty at Memphis, Tenn.

October 15

Hernando

November

Attached to 2nd Brigade, 6th Division, Cavalry Corps, Military Division Mississippi

December 2

Yazoo City

December 10

Chickasawba Bridge

December 20

Grierson's Raid to destroy Mobile & Ohio Railroad, attched to 1st Brigade, Cavalry Division, District of West Tennessee

December 25

Verona

December 28

Egypt Station

1865

January 19

Moved to Natchez, Miss.

February

Attached to 1st Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, Military Division West Mississippi

March 4

Moved to New Orleans, La., and camp at Carrollton

April 5

Moved to Mobile, Ala.

April 8

Spanish Fort

April

Fort Blakely

April 17

Expedition from Blakely, Ala., to Georgetown, Ga. attached to 2nd Brigade, Cavalry Division, Dept. of the Gulf

April 30

Moved to Columbus, Miss.

June 7

Moved to Vicksburg

July-November

Duty at Vicksburg and at Natchez, Port Gibson and Brookhaven

November 1

Mustered out at Vicksburg, Miss.