New York 2nd Regiment Veteran Cavalry
"Empire Light Cavalry"

Organized at Saratoga Springs, N.Y.; and mustered in by Companies as follows:
  • "A" August 15
  • "B" and "F" August 25
  • "C" September 9
  • "D" and "E" September 8
  • "G" October 10
  • "H" October 16
  • "I" and "K" November 10
  • "M" at Cavalry Depot Washington, D.C., December 30, 1863

    • Left State by detachments for Washington, D.C., August to December, 1863. Attached to Cavalry Division, 22nd Army Corps. to February, 1864. 5th Brigade, Cavalry Division, 19th Army Corps, Department of the Gulf, February 15 to June, 1864. 4th Brigade, Cavalry Division, Dept. of the Gulf, to August, 1864. Separate Cavalry Brigade, Dept. of the Gulf, to December, 1864. Separate Cavlary Brigade, Reserve Division, Military Division West Mississippi, to February, 1865. Separate Cavalry Brigade, District of West Florida, to March, 1865. 1st Brigade, Lucas' Cavlary Division, Military Division West Mississippi, to April, 1865. 3rd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, Dept. of the Gulf, to July, 1865. District of Alabama, Dept. of the Gulf, to November, 1865.

    SERVICE
    1863
    Till February, 1864 Duty in the Defences of Washington D.C.
    1864
    February Ordered to Dept. of the Gulf
    March 10 - May 22 Red River Campaign
    March 14-26 Advance from Franklin to Alexandria
    March 29-30 Monett's Ferry and Cloutiersville
    March 31 Natchitoches
    April 4 Campti
    April 8 Sabine Cross Roads
    April 9 Pleasant Hill
    April 14 Bayou Saline
    April 19 Natchitoches
    April 22-24 About Cloutiersville
    April 23 Cane River Crossing
    May 3 Bayou Roberts
    May 4-5 Near Wilson's Landing
    May 6 Well's and Moore's Plantations
    May 13-20 Retreat to Morganza
    May 16 Mansura
    May 17 Near Moreauville
    May 18 Bayou de Glaze
    May 18 Simsport
    May 29 - June 6 Expedition from Morganza to the Atchafalaya River
    May 29 Bayou Fordyce Road
    May 30 Livonia
    June 1-3 Bayou Grosse Tete
    June 24 Near Morganza
    July 18 Franklin
    July 27 Atchafalaya River
    July 28 Morgan's Ferry Road and Atchafalaya River
    August 9 Marinquin Bayou
    August 10 Rosedale
    August 23-29 Expedition to Clinton
    August 28 Morgan's Ferry, on Atchafalaya River (Detachment)
    September 13-17 Expedition from Morganza to Fausse River
    September 13 Maringowen
    September 15 Rosedale
    September 16 Maringowen
    September 20 Bayou Alabama and Morgan's Ferry
    October 4 St. Francisville
    October 5 Bayour Rara
    October 16 Fausse River
    November 10 McLeod's Mills
    November 15 Clinton and Liberty Creek, Miss.
    Nov. 27 - Dec. 13 Davidson's Expedition from Baton Rouge against Mobile & Ohio Railroad
    November 27 State Line, Pascagoula River, Miss.
    December 13-14 Expedition to Morgan's Ferry
    December 16-19 Expedition from Atchafalaya River
    1865
    January 31 Expedition from Morganza to New Roads
    February 7-10 Scouts to Fausse River and Grosse Tete Bayou(Detachment)
    February Moved to Barrancas, Fla.
    March 20 - April 1 March to Fort Blakely, Ala.
    March 21 College Hill, Fla.
    March 23 Pine Barren Creek
    March 25 Canoe Creek or Bluff Springs
    March 25 Bluff Springs
    March 26 Pollard, Ala.
    April 1-9 Siege operations against Fort Blakely
    April 9-17 Expedition from Blakely to Claiborne
    April 11 Near Mt. Pleasant
    April 17-30 Grierson's Raid through Alabama and Georgia
    Till November Duty in District of Alabama
    November 8 Mustered out at Talladega, Ala.

    Regiment lost during service 5 Officers and 29 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 3 Officers and 212 Enlisted men by disease.

    Source: Frederick H. Dyer's A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion

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