The Civil War in the East

3rd New York Cavalry Regiment "Van Allen" Cavalry

The regiment lost 3 officers and 45 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 1 officer and 150 enlisted men to disease.

 

Timeline of the 3rd New York Cavalry Regiment

 

Regiment organized by Companies

July 17, 1861

Company A organized at Rochester

July 30

Company E organized at Syracuse

August 4

Company C organized at Rochester

August 12

Company D organized at Albany

August 20

Company F organized at Rochester

August 21

Company G organized at Boonville

August 22

Company E organized at Elmira

August 23

Company K transferred from Company G, 13th New York Infantry

August 27

Company H organized at Rochester and Company I at Syracuse

September 9

Regiment organized under Colonel James H. Van Alen at Meridian Hill, Washington, D.C.Attached to Banks' Division, Army of the Potomac, and six companies to Stone's Division, Army of the Potomac for duty In the Defenses of Washington, D.C., and on the Upper Potomac.

September 10

Company M organized at Albany

October 21-24

Operations on the Potomac

October 21

Near Goose Creek and on Leesburg Road

October 21

Ball's Bluff

October 22

Near Edward's Ferry

March, 1862

Assigned to Defenses of Washington, D.C.

March 5

Bunker Hill, W. Va.

March 10

Winchester

April 6

Ordered to Dept. of North Carolina

April 27

Haughton's Mills

May 7

Near Burnt Church

May 15-16

Reconnaissance toward Trenton

May 15

Trenton Bridge

May 15-16

Young's Cross Roads and Pollocksville

May 30

Tranter's Creek (Company I)

May 31

Greenville Road

June 2, 5 and 24

Tranter's Creek (Company I)

June 28

Swift Creek Bridge (Detachment)

July 10

Tranter's Creek

July 24-28

Expedition to Trenton and Pollocksville

July 25

Trenton and Pollocksville

July 26

Mill Creek and Pollocksville (Company K)

July 26-29

Reconnaissance to Young's Cross Roads (Detachments)

July 27

Near Young's Cross Roads

August 6

Trenton and Kinston Road

August 14-15

Reconnaissance to Swansboro

September 6

Washington, N. C. (Cos. D, G, H, I and L)

September 9

Tranter's Creek

September 13

Company L organized at Cincinnati, Ohio

October 5

Washington

October 29

Pingo Creek

October 30-November 12

Expedition from New Berne

November 2

Rawle's Mills

November 5

Near Tarboro

November 11

Demonstration on Newberne

November 18

Core Creek

December 11-20

Foster's Expedition to Goldsboro. Assigned to 18th Army Corps, Dept. of North Carolina

December 11-12

Kinston Road

December 13-14

Southwest Creek

December 14

Kinston

December 15

Whitehall Bridge

December 16

Olive Station, Goshen Swamp and Whitehall

December 17

Dudley Station, Thompson's Bridge and Goldsboro

January 8, 1863

Core Creek

January 17-21

Reconnaissance to Pollocksville, Tranter's, Young's Cross Roads and Onslow

January 17

Pollocksville and Northeast River

January 18

Near Tranter's

January- 18-19

Young's Cross Roads

January 19

White Oak Creek

January 20

Near Jacksonville

February 13

Sandy Ridge and near Washington

February 27

Near Newberne

March 1-6

Expedition to Swann's Quarter (Company F)

March 3

Near Fairfield (Company F) and Skeet

March 3-4

Near Fairfield and Swann's Quarter (Company F)

March 6-8

Demonstration on Kinston (Companies A, E and H)

March 7

Core Creek (Companies A, E and H) and Dover (Company H)

March 7-14

Expedition to Mattamuskeet Lake (Company F)

March 13-14

Deep Gully New Berne (Detachment)

March 30-April 20

Siege of Washington (1 Co.)

April 3

White Forks

April 4

Gum Swamp

April 4

Swann's Quarter

April 4-5

Rodman's Point (1 Co.)

April 7

Near Dover, Core Creek and Young's Cross Roads

April 8

Little Swift Creek

April 9

Blount's and Swift Creek

April 13-21

Expedition to Swift Creek Village (Detachment)

April 13-14

Trent Road

April 15

Near Newberne

April 16

Peletier's Mills

April 16-21

Expedition toward Kinston (Company H)

April 17-19

Expedition to Little Washington (Detachment)

April 17-18

Railroad Crossing, Core Creek

April 19

Big Swift Creek

April 20

Sandy Ridge (Company H)

April 27-May 1

Expedition toward Kinston (Detachment)

April 28

Wise's Cross Roads and Dover Road

April 29

Near Core Creek

April 30

Core Creek

May

Assigned to Cavalry Brigade, 18th Corps

May 5

Evans' Mills

May 5

Peletter's Mills (4 Cos.)

May 7

Stony Creek (4 Cos.)

May 20-23

Demonstration on Kinston (4 Cos.)

May 22

Gum Swamp (4 Cos.)

May 23

Bachelor's Creek

May 24

Washington

May 31-June 2

Tranter's Creek, Jacksonville

June 16

Plymouth

June 17-18

Scout

July

Defenses of New Berne, N. C., Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina

July 3-7

Raid on Wilmington & Weldon Railroad (Detachment)

July 4

Hallsville

July 5

Warsaw and Kenensville

July 8

Trenton

July 18-24

Tar River Expedition

July 18

Swift Creek

July 19

Near Greenville

July 20

Sparta, Tarboro and Rocky Mount Station

July 21

Hookerstown

July 22

Swift Creek and Street's Ferry

July 22

Scupperton

July 26

Pollocksville

October

Heckman's Command, Newport News, Va., Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina

October 7

Near New Berne

November 3

Camden Court House and Dismal Swamp

December

Assigned to Heckman's Command, Portsmouth, Va., Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina

January 18-
February 4, 1864

Operations about New Berne against Whiting

February 6-8

Wistar's Expedition toward Richmond

February 7

Bettom's Bridge and Baltimore Cross Roads

March

Suffolk, Va.

April

Assigned to 1st Brigade, Kautz's Cavalry Division, Army of the James, Dept. of Virginia and North Carolina

May 5-11

Kautz's Raid against Petersburg & Weldon Railroad

May 5

Wall's Bridge

May 7

Stony Creek Station, Weldon Railroad

May 8

Nottaway Railroad Bridge

May 8-9

White's Bridge, Nottaway River

May 12-17

Kautz's Raid on Richmond & Danville Railroad

May 14

Flat Creek Bridge, near Chula Depot

May 16

Belcher's Mills

May 17-30

Bermuda Hundred

June 2

Near Hatcher's Run

June 9

Near Petersburg

June 15

Baylor's Farm

June 15-18

Assaults on Petersburg; Siege operations against Petersburg and Richmond begin

June 22-30

Wilson's Raid on South Side & Danville Railroad

June 25

Roanoke Bridge

June 28

Sappony Church or Stony Creek

June 29

Ream's Station

July 27-29

Deep Bottom

August 1

Malvern Hill

August 19-21

Yellow Tavern

August 23-25

Ream's Station

August 31

Lee's Mills

September 5-6

Reconnaissance to Sycamore Church

September 15

Prince George Court House

September 16

Jerusalem Plank Road and Sycamore Church

September 22

Prince George Court House

September 28-30

Chaffin's Farm

October 1

Charles City Cross Roads

October 7 and 13

Derbytown Road

October 7

Johnson's Farm and New Market Road

October 8

Chaffin's Farm

October 20

Charles City Cross Roads

October 27-28

Fair Oaks

November 1

Charles City Cross Roads

November 15

Darbytown Road

December

Moved to Norfolk, Va. and duty there

December 11-19

Operations about Broadwater Ferry, Chowan River

December-July

Duty at Suffolk, Portsmouth and Norfolk

January 2, 1865

Scout to South Quay (Companies A, B, C, H and L)

March 10-11

Expedition to Murfree's Depot, N. C.

March 11

South Quay

July 21, 1865

Consolidated with 1st New York Mounted Rifles to form 4th Regiment Provisional Cavalry.