The Civil War in the East

11th New York Cavalry Regiment "Scott's 900"

The regiment lost 1 officer and 22 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 2 officers and 319 enlisted men to disease, a total of 344.

 

1861

December - May

Organized at New York City

1862

May 5

Left State for Washington, D.C. for duty in the defences of that city attached to Military District of Washington and 22nd Army Corps, Dept. of Washington. A Detachmentof the battery was with 8th Army Corps, Middle Department.

June 18

Action at Blue Ridge Mountain, Va

December 14

Poolesville, Md.

1863

June 27

Companies B and C near Fairfax Court House, Va.

June 30

Bolivar Heights

July 7

Harper's Ferry

July 14

Near Harper's Ferry

July 15

Halltown

August 27

Edwards' Ferry, Md. (Detachment)

August 20-
September 2

Company F - Expedition from Leesburg

September 22

Rockville, Md.

1864

March

Ordered to Dept. of the Gulf and duty in the District of LaFourche, La.

May 15

Action at New River, La.

June

Attached to District of Baton Rouge, La., Dept. of the Gulf

June 10, July 20

Manning's Plantation

July 31

Orange Grove, near Donaldsonville

August 5

Doyall's Plantation and Donaldsonville

August

Attached to 2nd Brigade, Cavalry Division, Dept. of the Gulf

October 5-9

Expedition from Baton Rouge, La., to Clinton, Greensburg, Osyka and Camp Moore

October 5

Bayou Sara

November 14-21

Lee's Expedition from Baton Rouge to Brookhaven, Miss., and skirmishes

November 15

Brookhaven, Miss.

November 21

Near Jackson

November 23

Clinton

November 24

Liberty, Miss.

November 27 - December 13

Davidson's Expedition from Baton Rouge, La., against Mobile & Ohio Railroad

November 27

Franklinsville

December 27

Ocean Springs

1865

February

Ordered to Memphis, Tenn. and attached to 2nd Brigade, Cavalry Division, District of West Tennessee

March 3-11

Expedition from Memphis, Tenn., into Northern Mississippi

March 28, April 18

Germantown

March-September

Duty at Memphis, Tenn., and in District of West Tennessee

July 21, 1865

Consolidated to a Battalion

September 30

Mustered out at Memphis, Tenn. and honorably discharged from service.