The First Rhode Island Cavalry Regiment lost 1 officer and 16 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 2 officers and 77 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.
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December 14 -
March 3 |
Organized at Pawtucket as 1st New England Cavalry, afterwards designated 1st Rhode Island Cavalry |
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March 12 & 14 |
Left State for Washington, D.C. |
March |
Duty in the Defenses of Washington, D.C., attached to Stoneman's Cavalry Command, Army of the Potomac, then to Hatch's Cavalry Brigade, Banks' 5th Corps |
April 4 |
Moved to Warrenton Junction, Va. |
April 16 |
Reconnaissance to Rappahannock River (3rd Battalion), Warrenton Junction, Reconnaissance to Liberty Church |
April 17 |
Occupation of Mt. Jackson (4 Companies) |
April 18 |
Reconnaissance to Rappahannock Crossing (4 Companies) |
May |
Attached to Shields' Division, Dept. of the Rappahannock (3rd Battalion); Geary's Command, Dept. of the Rappahannock (1st Battalion) |
May 29 |
Advance to Front Royal |
May 30 |
Front Royal (3rd Battalion) |
June 1 |
Strasburg |
April 2 |
Columbia Bridge |
June 3 |
Edenburg |
June 4 |
Miller's Bridge |
June 5 |
New Market |
June 6 |
Harrisonburg |
June 8 |
Cross Keys |
June 9 |
Port Republic and Mountain Road |
June |
Scouting on the Rappahannock, attached to Bayard's Cavalry Brigade, 3rd Corps, Army of Virginia |
July 22-24 |
Reconnaissance to James City |
August 3-4 |
Rapidan River |
August 7 |
Slaughter River |
August 8 |
Robinson's River |
August 9 |
Battle of Cedar Mountain |
August 16-September 2 |
Pope's Campaign in Northern Virginia |
August 20 |
Stevensburg, Raccoon Ford and Brandy Station |
August 21-23 |
Fords of the Rappahannock |
August 22 |
Catlett's Station |
August 23 |
Rappahannock Station |
August 27 |
New Baltimore |
August 28 |
Gainesville |
August 30 |
Bull Run |
August 31 |
Centreville, Chantilly and Germantown |
September 1 |
Chantilly |
September |
Attached to Stoneman's Corps of Observation |
September 15 |
White's Ford |
October 12 |
White's Ford |
October 27 |
Advance to Falmouth, Va. |
October 31 |
Mountsville (Companies K, L and M) |
November 16 |
Hazel Run |
December |
Attached to Averill's Cavalry Brigade, Centre Grand Division, Army of the Potomac |
December 12-15 |
Battle of Fredericksburg (Companies K and M) |
December 29-30 |
Expedition to Richards and Ellis Fords |
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February |
Attached to 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, Cavalry Corps, Army Potomac |
February 25 |
Hartwood Church |
March 17 |
Kelly's Ford |
April 27-May 8 |
Chancellorsville Campaign |
April 29-May 8 |
Stoneman's Raid |
April 29 |
Kelly's Ford |
May 1 |
Rapidan Station |
May 4 |
Ellis Ford |
June 9 |
Stevensburg, Beverly Ford and Brandy Station |
June 17 |
Near Middleburg and Thoroughfare Gap |
June 18 |
Aldie |
June 27 |
Aldie |
July 1-3 |
Battle of Gettysburg |
July-September |
Scouting and outpost duty on Upper Potomac |
September 13-17 |
Advance front Rapidan to the Rappahannock |
September 13 |
Culpeper Court House |
September 15 |
Rapidan Station |
October 9-22 |
Bristoe Campaign |
October 12 |
Near Warrenton |
October 12-13 |
White Sulphur Springs, Culpeper |
October 14 |
Auburn and Bristoe, Brentsville |
November 26-December 2 |
Mine Run Campaign |
November 27 |
New Hope Church |
December |
Duty in the Defenses of Washington |
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January |
Attached to Cavalry Brigade, Camp Stoneman, 22nd Army Corps |
January 5 |
3rd Battalion transferred to 1st New Hampshire Cavalry |
May 14 |
Assigned to Abercrombie's Command, Belle Plains, Va. |
May 24-30 |
Picket duty at Port Conway and Port Royal |
May 29 |
Bowling Green |
June |
Attached to Reserve Brigade, 1st Division, Cavalry Corps, Army of the Potomac |
July 27-29 |
Demonstration north of the James |
July 27-28 |
Deep Bottom |
July 28 |
Malvern Hill |
August 7-November 28 |
Sheridan's Shenandoah Valley Campaign. Attached to Headquarters Cavalry Corps, Army of the Shenandoah, Middle Military Division |
August 25-26 |
Shepherdstown |
August 25 |
Kearneysville |
August 29 |
Smithfield |
September 19 |
Battle of Opequan, Winchester |
September 21-22 |
Fisher's Hill and Milford |
September 24 |
Brown's Gap |
September 29 |
Waynesboro |
October |
Attached to 3rd (Reserve) Brigade, 1st Division, Cavalry Corps, Army Shenandoah |
October 19 |
Battle of Cedar Creek |
December 8-28 |
Raid to Gordonsville |
December 23 |
Jack's Shop, near Gordonsville |
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January 1 |
Consolidated to a Battalion of 4 Companies |
February 27-March 3 |
Sheridan's Raid from Winchester |
March 2 |
Waynesboro |
March 3-8 |
Guard prisoners from Waynesboro to Winchester |
March |
Duty in the Shenandoah Valley attached to Cavalry Brigade, Army Shenandoah |
June 22 |
At Monrovia Station and Relay House, Md. |
August 3 |
Mustered out at Baltimore, Md. |
