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August 17 |
Organized at Camp Chase, Ohio |
September 17 |
Companies A and C ordered to West Virginia and attached to Attached to Army of Occupation, West Virginia |
October |
Attached to Cheat Mountain District. West Virginia |
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January |
Attached to Landers' Division, Army Potomac |
February 4 |
Skirmish at Bloomery Gap, Va. |
March |
Attached to Shields' 2nd Division, Banks' 5th Army Corps, and Dept. of the Shenandoah |
March 7-15 |
Advance on Winchester |
March 23 |
Battle of Winchester |
April 17 |
Occupation of Mr. Jackson |
May |
Attached to Cavalry, Shields' Division, Dept. of the Rappahannock |
June |
Attached to Headquarters 2nd Corps, Army of Virginia |
August 9 |
Battle of Cedar Mountain |
August 16-September 2 |
Pope's Campaign in Northern Virginia |
August 22 |
Catlett's Station |
August 27-28 |
Centreville |
August 29 |
Groveton |
August 30 |
Bull Run |
September 1 |
Chantilly |
September |
Attached to Price's Cavalry Brigade, Military District of Washington, D.C. for duty in Defenses of Washington |
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March |
Attached to 2nd Brigade, Stahel's Cavalry Division, 22nd Army Corps, Dept. of Washington |
June |
Attached to Headquarters, 3rd Division, Cavalry Corps, Army of the Potomac |
July 1-3 |
Battle of Gettysburg
Company A was commanded by Captain Noah Jones, and was assigned to of the Cavalry Corps - 3rd Division HQ. Company C was commanded by Captain Samuel N. Stanford and was assigned to the Cavalry Corps - 2nd Division HQ. The two companies combined total 85 men, and suffered no losses.
From the monument: "Companies A and C, First Ohio Cavalry, Headquarters Guard, 2d and 3d Divisions, Cavalry Corps. July 1,2,3, 1863. During the Battle of Gettysburg these companies furnished bearers of dispatches to different parts of the field. In the course of the campaign they several times vigorously engaged the enemy." |
July 4 |
Monterey Gap |
July 5 |
Emmettsburg |
July 6-12 |
Hagerstown |
July 14 |
Falling Waters |
August 28 |
Hartwood Church |
September 13-17 |
Advance from the Rappahannock to the Rapidan |
October 9-22 |
Bristoe Campaign |
November 5 |
Hartwood Church |
November 26-December 2 |
Mine Run Campaign |
December |
Attached to Defenses of Washington, D.C. |
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January |
Regiment reenlisted as Veterans. Companies A & C served the remainder of the war with the rest of the regiment in the Army of the Cumberland in the Western Theater, participating in the capture of President Davis. |
