New York 1st Cavalry (Union)
6/1/61
Battle - Fairfax Court House (1861) - Fairfax Court House, Virginia
6/16/61
Organized - New York 1st Cavalry - New York
5/31/62
Battle - Seven Pines - Henrico County, Virginia
Gen. Joseph E. Johnston withdrew his army from the Virginia Peninsula toward the Confederate capital of Richmond as Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan's army pursued him. By the end of May, Johnston held a defensive position seven miles east of the city on the Richmond and York River Railroad. McClellan's army facing Johnston straddled the Chickahominy River and stretched south. Capturing the initiative from his Union foe, Johnston attempted to overwhelm two Federal corps isolated south of the river. The Confed…READ MORE
6/6/62
Battle - Good's Farm - Harrisonburg, Virginia
6/25/62
Battle - Oak Grove - Henrico County, Virginia
6/26/62
Battle - Mechanicsville - Hanover Couunty, Virginia
Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan's Army of the Potomac remained northeast of Richmond for three weeks after the Battle of Seven Pines. The new commander of the Army of Northern Virginia, Gen. Robert E. Lee, took that time to reorganize his defenses of the capital city and receive the reinforcements of Maj. Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's division from the Shenandoah Valley. After attacking Lee inconclusively at Oak Grove on June 25th, McClellan remained in place, with four of his five army corps south of…READ MORE
6/27/62
Battle - Gaines' Mill - Hanover County, Virginia
Despite his victory over the Confederates at Beaver Dam Creek on June 26th, Maj. Gen. Fitz John Porter's Fifth Corps abandoned its position early on June 27th and established a new defensive line along Boatswain's Creek, just north of the Chickahominy River.READ MORE
6/30/62
Battle - Glendale - Henrico County, Virginia
Following the rear guard action at Savage's Station on June 29th, Maj. Gen. George McClellan's Army of the Potomac continued its retreat toward the safety of Harrison's Landing on the James River. On June 30th, after five days of constant fighting, the Confederate divisions of Maj. Gens. Benjamin Huger, James Longstreet, and A.P. Hill converged on the retreating Union army in the vicinity of Glendale. Longstreet's and Hill's attacks penetrated the Union defense near Willis Church, routing Brig. Gen. George…READ MORE
6/30/62
Battle - White Oak Swamp - Henrico County, Virginia
7/1/62
Battle - Malvern Hill - Henrico County, Virginia
On June 30th, the retreating Federal Army of the Potomac finally stopped at the James River at the end of seven days of fighting outside of Richmond.READ MORE
9/19/62
Battle - Shepherdstown - Jefferson County, West Virginia
On September 18th, the day after the battle at Antietam, both sides remained on the battlefield too bloodied to resume fighting. That evening, lead elements of Gen. Robert E. Lee's army began to withdraw across the Potomac River back into Virginia at Boteler's Ford near Shepherdstown. Artillery on the south side of the river placed by Brig. Gen. William Pendleton covered the crossing of the remainder of Lee's army that night. On September 20th, a detachment of Maj. Gen. Fitz John Porter's Fifth Corps pushe…READ MORE
9/20/62
Battle - Shepherdstown - Shepherdstown, West Virginia
2/26/63
Battle - Woodstock, Virginia
2/26/63
Battle - Winchester, Virginia
6/13/63
Leadership Change - Regiment - Major Timothy Quinn
MajorTimothy Quinn
6/13/63
Battle - Second Winchester - Frederick County, Virginia; Winchester County, Virginia
6/13/63
Battle - Winchester, Virginia
6/22/63
Battle - Greencastle, Pennsylvania
7/6/63
Battle - Williamsport - Washington County, Maryland
During the night of July 4-5th, General Robert E. Lee's battered army began its retreat from Gettysburg, moving southwest toward Hagerstown and the Potomac River crossing at Williamsport, screened by Maj. Gen. J. E. B. Stuart's cavalry. Lee's infantry reached the rain-swollen Potomac but could not cross, the pontoon bridge having been destroyed by a cavalry raid. On July 11th, Lee entrenched a line protecting the river crossings at Williamsport and waited for Maj. Gen. George G. Meade's army to advance. On…READ MORE
10/17/63
Battle - Berryville, Virginia
10/18/63
Battle - Charlestown - Charles Town, Jefferson County, West Virginia
11/16/63
Battle - Mount Jackson, Virginia
5/13/64
Battle - New MARket, Virginia
5/15/64
Leadership Change - Regiment - Lieutenant Colonel Alonzo W. Adams
Lieutenant ColonelAlonzo W. Adams
5/15/64
Leadership Change - Brigade - Colonel William B. Tibbits
ColonelWilliam B. Tibbits
5/15/64
Leadership Change - Division - Major General Julius Stahel
Major GeneralJulius Stahel
5/15/64
Battle - New Market - Shenandoah County, Virginia
In conjunction with other spring 1864 offensives against strategic points in the Confederacy, Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant ordered Maj. Gen. Franz Sigel to move up the Shenandoah Valley along the Valley Turnpike to destroy the railroad and canal complex at Lynchburg. Union control of the strategic and agriculturally rich valley was a crucial part of Grant's plans. Receiving word that the Union Army had entered the valley, Maj. Gen. John C. Breckinridge pulled together all available troops to repulse the invad…READ MORE
6/5/64
Leadership Change - Regiment - Major Timothy Quinn
MajorTimothy Quinn
6/5/64
Leadership Change - Brigade - Colonel Andrew McReynolds
ColonelAndrew McReynolds
6/5/64
Battle - Piedmont - Augusta County, Virginia
6/17/64
Battle - Lynchburg - Lynchburg, Virginia
The Union threat forced Robert E. Lee to dispatch General Jubal Early with his Second Corps of the Army of Northern Virginia to defend Lynchburg. On June 17 and 18, the opposing forces clashed, resulting in a Union retreat all the way into West Virginia, leaving the Valley open for another Confederate advance into the North.READ MORE
6/21/64
Battle - Hanging Rock - Hanging Rock, Virginia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanging_Rock,_VirginiaREAD MORE
7/3/64
Battle - MARtinsburg, West Virginia
7/9/64
Battle - Monocacy - Frederick County, Maryland
After marching north down the Shenandoah Valley from Lynchburg, the Confederate army of Lt. Gen. Jubal A. Early side-stepped the Federal garrison at Harpers Ferry and crossed the Potomac River at Shepherdstown into Maryland on July 5-6th, 1864. On July 9th, a makeshift Union force under Maj. Gen. Lew Wallace attempted to stop Early's invading Confederate divisions along the Monocacy River, just east of Frederick. The strategic area was near the junction of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and the Georgetown…READ MORE
7/16/64
Battle - Heaton's Crossroads - Purcellville, Virginia
7/25/64
Battle - MARtinsburg, West Virginia
8/7/64
Battle - Moorefield - Hardy County, West Virginia
9/26/64
Battle - Port Republic, Virginia
10/19/64
Leadership Change - Brigade - Colonel Henry Capehart
ColonelHenry Capehart
10/19/64
Leadership Change - Division - Colonel William H. Powell
ColonelWilliam H. Powell
10/19/64
Battle - Cedar Creek - Frederick County, Virginia; Shenandoah County, Virginia; Warren County, Virginia
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11/12/64
Battle - Ninevah, Virginia
4/1/65
Leadership Change - Regiment - Lieutenant Colonel Jenyns C. Batterysby
Lieutenant ColonelJenyns C. Batterysby
4/1/65
Leadership Change - Division - undefined Bvt MG George Armstrong Custer
4/1/65
Battle - Five Forks - Five Forks, Virginia
The Union victory along the White Oak Road on March 31st threatened to destabilize the entire Confederate line west of Petersburg. General Robert E. Lee ordered Maj. Gen. George Pickett with his infantry division and the cavalry divisions of Col. Thomas Munford, Maj. Gen. W.H.F. Lee, and Maj. Gen Thomas Rosser to hold the vital crossroads of Five Forks, along the White Oak Road five miles west of the previous fighting there. Pickett's defensive line was not well constructed, and much of his cavalry force w…READ MORE
4/6/65
Battle - Sailor's Creek - Amelia County, Virginia; Prince Edward County, Virginia; Nottoway County, Virginia
Five days after Robert E. Lee's men retreated from the trenches of Petersburg, cavalry under Maj. Gen. Phil Sheridan effectively cut off three separate corps of Lee's army near Sailor's Creek, a tributary of the Appomattox River, while the Union Second and Sixth Corps approached from the east. On April 6th, two brigades of Andrew H. Humphrey's Second Corps overwhelmed two brigades of Maj. Gen. John B. Gordon's division as the Confederates struggled to move their supply and artillery trains across the creek…READ MORE
4/9/65
Battle - Appomattox Court House - Appomattox Court House, Virginia
Between 26,000 and 28,000 Confederate soldiers surrendered and were paroled.READ MORE
6/27/65
Mustered Out - New York 1st Cavalry - New York
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