Organized by a consolidation of 4th and 5th Battalions
Cavalry, and mustered in May 5, 1864. Left State for Annapolis, Md., May 11,
thence moved to White House Landing, Va., May 18. Attached to 1st Brigade, 3rd
Division, 9th Army Corps, Army Potomac, June 8 to August 10, 1864. 1st Brigade,
1st Division, 9th Army Corps, to December 10. 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division,
Cavalry Corps, Army of the Potomac, to May, 1865. Sub-District of the
Appomattox, District of the Nottaway, Dept. of Virginia, to August, 1865.
SERVICE.--At Washington, D.C., May 14-18, 1864. March to
White House Landing May 18, and duty there till June. Moved to Cold Harbor, Va.
Operations about Cold Harbor June 6-12. Before Petersburg June 16-19. Siege
operations against Petersburg and Richmond, Va., June 16, 1864, to April 2,
1865. Mine Explosion July 30, 1864, Weldon Railroad August 18-21. Poplar
Springs Church September 29-October 2. Vaughan and Squirrel Level Road October
8. Boydton Plank Road, Hatcher's Run, October 27-28. Equipped for Cavalry
services December 12. Dabney's Mills, Hatcher's Run, February 5-7, 1865.
Appomattox Campaign March 28-April 9. Dinwiddie Court House March 30-31. Five
Forks April 1. Fall of Petersburg April 2. Amelia Springs April 5. Sailor's
Creek and Harper's Farm April 6. Farmville April 7. Appomattox Court House
April 9. Surrender of Lee and his army. Expedition to Danville to cooperate
with Gen. Sherman April 23-29. Assigned to provost duty in Amelia and Powhatan
Counties till August 10. Mustered out August 10, 1865.
Regiment lost during service 4 Officers and 61 Enlisted men
killed and mortally wounded and 1 Officer and 51 Enlisted men by disease. Total
117.
SOURCE: Frederick H. Dyer, A Compendium of the War
of the Rebellion, Part 3, p. 1479-80
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