The Civil War in the East

Ringgold Cavalry

 

The Ringgold Cavalry lost 3 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 1 officer and 18 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.

 

1861

June 29

Organized at Washington, Pa. as an independent company

July

Ordered to West Virginia and attached to Army of Occupation, West Virginia

July 6-17

Campaign in West Virginia attached to the Cheat Mountain District

July 11

Rich Mountain

July 13-14

Carrick's Ford

September 2

Burlington

September 11-17

Operations on Cheat Mountain

September 12

Petersburg

September 23

Romney, Hanging Rock

September 23-25

Romney

October 26

Mill Creek Mills, Romney

November 13

Near Romney

November

At Romney

1862

January 6-7

Expedition to Blue's Gap attached to Lander's Division

January 7

Hanging Rock Pass

February 14

Bloomery Furnace

March 7-15

Advance on Winchester attached to Hatch's Cavalry Command, Banks' 5th Corps

March 18

Strasburg

March 22

Kernstown

March 23

Battle of Winchester

April 15

Columbia Furnace

April 17

Two Churches and Rood's Hill

April

Duty in Railroad District, West Virginia attached to Mountain Dept.

July

Attached to Railroad District, 8th Corps, Middle Dept.

August 15

North River Mills

August 18

Huttonsville

September

Expanded in the field to Ringgold Cavalry Battalion by consolidation with:

Lieutenant Hugh Keys' Washington (Pa.) Cavalry (organized at Washington, Pa., June 29, 1861)

Captain George T. Work's Washington County Company (organized September 6, 1862)

Captain Henry H. Young's Cavalry, organized (September 6, 1862)

 

Guard and scout duty in the Railroad District and on Upper Potomac, West Virginia attached to Railroad District, 8th Corps, Middle Dept.

 

Captain Andrew J. Barr's Cavalry Company (organized October 13, 1862) and

Captain James Y. Chessrown's Cavalry Company, (organized October 14, 1862) added to the battalion.

October 29

Ridgeville Road, near Petersburg, W. Va.

November 9

Moorefield, South Fork Potomac

December 3

Moorefield

1863

February 16

Near Romney. Attached to Defenses Upper Potomac, 8th Corps, Middle Dept

March

Attached to 4th Brigade, 1st Division, 8th Corps

April 6-7

Near Burlington

April 6-7

Purgetsville and Going's Ford

April 26

Burlington

June

Attached to Campbell's Brigade, Scammon's Division, Dept. West Virginia

September 4 & 11

Moorefield

November 10

Captain John Keys died of disease at Beallsville, Pennsylvania

December 16

Descent upon Salem, Va.

December 19

Jackson River, near Covington

December 31

Operations in Hampshire and Hardy Counties, W. Va. attached to 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, West Virginia

1864

January 1-5

Operations in Hampshire and Hardy Counties, W. Va.

January 27-February 5

Operations in Hampshire and Hardy Counties, W. Va.

January 29-30

Medley, Williamsport,

January 30

Evacuation of Petersburg

February 4

Moorefield

February 29-
March 5

Expedition to Petersburg

March 3

Petersburg

February 22

Transferred to 22nd Pennsylvania Cavalry