The 15th Pennsylvania Cavalry lost 3 officers and 22 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 3 officers and 100 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.
1863 |
June to August |
Organized at Harrisburg for six months service |
July 7 |
March to Greencastle |
July 8-24 |
Scouting into Maryland and pursuit of Lee |
July 25 |
Moved to Falling Water and picket shores of the Potomac |
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Ordered to Sir John's Run, W. Va and assigned to guard duty on Baltimore & Ohio Railroad.
Companies F and I at Berkeley Springs.
Companies D and E at Bloomery Gap.
Companies A and H at Great Cacapon Bridge.
Company C at Hancock
The five Emergency Companies on duty at Philadelphia, Reading and Pottsville, Pa. |
September 1 |
Skirmish at Bloomery Gap and at Bath |
September |
Regiment concentrated at Sir John's Run, W. Va. for duty there and at Springfield |
December 7-11 |
Scout in Hampshire, Hardy, Frederick and Shenandoah Counties (Detachment) |
December 24 |
Regiment moved to Harrisburg, Pa. |
1864 |
January 7 |
Mustered out |
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February |
Reorganized at Harrisburg and Philadelphia |
March |
Reported to Sigel at Martinsburg, W. Va. Attached to 2nd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, Dept. West Virginia |
April 30-May 16 |
Sigel's Expedition to New Market, Va. |
May 14 |
Rude's Hill and New Market |
May 15 |
Battle of New Market |
May 26-July 1 |
Hunter's Expedition to Lynchburg |
June 4 |
Harrisonburg |
June 5 |
Piedmont, Mt. Crawford |
June 6 |
Occupation of Staunton |
June 10 |
Staunton |
June 11 |
Midway |
June 12 |
Cedar Creek and Piney River near Amherst C. H. |
June 14 |
Near Glasgow |
June 17-18 |
Lynchburg |
June 19-July 15 |
Retreat to Kanawha Valley, thence to Parkersburg and Martinsburg |
June 21 |
Catawba Mountains and about Salem |
July 17 |
Martinsburg |
July 17-18 |
Snicker's Ferry |
July 19 |
Ashby's Gap and Berry's Ford |
July 21 |
Ashby's Gap |
July 23 |
Near Kernstown |
July 24 |
Kernstown, Winchester |
July 25 |
Bunker Hill and Martinsburg |
July 30 |
Ordered to Harper's Ferry |
August |
Duty at Halltown, Pleasant Valley and Cumberland, Md. Attache to 1st Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, West Virginia |
November |
Attached to 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, Cavalry Corps, Army of the Shenandoah |
December 19-28 |
Expedition from Winchester to Gordonsville |
December 21 |
Madison C. H. |
December 22 |
Liberty Mills |
December 23 |
Near Gordonsville |
1865 |
February 27-
March 25 |
Sheridan's Expedition from Winchester |
March 2 |
Swoope's Depot and Staunton |
March 2 |
Waynesboro |
March 11 |
Goochland C. H. |
March 28-April 9 |
Appomattox Campaign. Attached to 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, Cavalry Corps, Army of the Potomac |
March 30-31 |
Dinwiddie C. H. |
April 1 |
Five Forks |
April 2 |
Scott's Cross Roads |
April 4 |
Tabernacle Church or Beaver Pond Creek |
April 6 |
Sailor's Creek |
April 8 |
Appomattox Station |
April 9 |
Appomattox C. H. Surrender of Lee and his army. |
April 23-29 |
Expedition to Danville |
May |
March to Washington, D.C. |
May 23 |
Grand Review |
June 17 |
Consolidated with 2nd Pennsylvania Cavalry to form 1st Provisional Cavalry Regiment. |
