The Civil War in the East

13th Ohio Cavalry Regiment

The regiment lost 4 officers and 61 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 1 officer and 51 enlisted men to disease, a total of 117.

 

Timeline of the 13th Ohio Cavalry Regiment

May 5, 1864

Mustered in. Organized by a consolidation of 4th and 5th Battalions Cavalry under Colonel Stephen R. Clark.

May 11

Left State for Annapolis, Md.

May 14-18

At Washington, D.C.

May 18

March to White House Landing, Va.

June

Moved to Cold Harbor, Va. and attached to 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 9th Army Corps, Army Potomac

June 6-12

Operations about Cold Harbor

June 16-19

Before Petersburg; Siege operations against Petersburg and Richmond, Va. begin

July 30

Petersburg Mine Explosion

The regiment lost over 100 casualties.

August 10

Assigned to 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 9th Army Corps

August 18-21

Weldon Railroad

September 29-October 2

Poplar Springs Church

October 8

Vaughan and Squirrel Level Road

October 27-28

Boydton Plank Road, Hatcher's Run

December 12

Equipped for Cavalry services and assigned to 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, Cavalry Corps, Army of the Potomac

February 5-7, 1865

Dabney's Mills, Hatcher's Run

March 28-April 9

Appomattox Campaign

March 30-31

Dinwiddie Court House

April 1

Five Forks

April 2

Fall of Petersburg

April 5

Amelia Springs

April 6

Sailor's Creek and Harper's Farm

April 7

Farmville

April 9

Appomattox Court House. Surrender of Lee and his army.

April 23-29

Expedition to Danville to cooperate with Gen. Sherman.

May

Assigned to provost duty in Amelia and Powhatan Counties attached to Sub-District of the Appomattox, District of the Nottaway, Dept. of Virginia

August 10, 1865

Mustered out