1st Maine Volunteer Cavalry Regiment

1st Maine Volunteer Cavalry Regiment
Active October 31, 1861 – August 1, 1865
Country  United States
Allegiance Union
Branch Cavalry

The 1st Maine Volunteer Cavalry Regiment was one of the Maine units used during the American Civil War.

History

Organized in Augusta, Maine, on October 31, 1861, for three years. The original members were mustered out on November 25, 1864, when their service was up, but later recruits, along with members of the 1st District of Columbia Cavalry and those who chose to reenlist, were retained in the regiment until its mustering out at Petersburg, Virginia, on August 1, 1865.[1]

List of Battles

The official list of battles in which the regiment bore a part:[2]

Middletown
Winchester
Cedar Mountain
2nd Bull Run
South Mountain
Antietam
Fredericksburg
Rappahannock Station
Brandy Station
Aldie
Middleburg
Upperville
Gettysburg
Shepardstown
Sulphur Springs
Mine Run
Fortification of Richmond
Old Church
Todd's Tavern
Ground Squirrel Bridge (called Church in [2])
Hawe's Shop
Cold Harbor
Trevillian Station
St Mary's Church
Deep Bottom
Ream's Station
Wyatt's Farm
Boydton Road
Bellefield

Monuments and memorials

1st Maine Volunteer Cavalry's monument, Gettysburg National Battlefield, 1898.

During the 1880s, planning was undertaen to erect a monument on the Gettysburg National Battlefield which would honor the 1863 service of the 1st Maine Volunteer Cavalry at Gettysburg. That monument was subsequently dedicated in a formal ceremony held at the battlefield on October 3, 1889.[3]

Notable members

See also

References

  1. ↑ State of Maine, Report of the Adjutant General for the Years 1864 and 1865, Vol.I, p. 8.
  2. 1 2 State of Maine, Report of the Adjutant General, 1864-1865, Vol.I, pg 1051
  3. ↑ Maine at Gettysburg: Report of Maine Commissioners Prepared by the Executive Committee, pp. 431-516. Portland, Maine: The Lakeside Press, 1898.
  • Tobie, Edward P. History of the First Maine Cavalry 1861-1865


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