Maryland 1st Volunteer Cavalry (Union)
01/08/1861
Organized - Maryland 1st Volunteer Cavalry - Maryland
03/10/1861
Battle - Greenbrier River - Pocahontas County, West Virginia
During the night of October 2-3, Union Brig. General Joseph Reynolds advanced with two brigades from Cheat Mountain to reconnoiter the Confederate position at Camp Bartow on the Greenbrier River. Reynolds drove in the Confederate pickets and opened fire with his artillery. After sporadic fighting and an abortive attempt to turn the Confederate's right flank, Reynolds withdrew back to Cheat Mountain. Interestingly, the following months saw reports from both sides heavily exaggerate the number of enemy losse…READ MORE
21/10/1861
Battle - Ball's Bluff - Loudoun County, Virginia
On the evening of October 20, 1861, Union army commander George B. McClellan ordered Gen. Charles Stone to send a scouting party across the Potomac River to identify the positions of Confederate Col. Nathan Evans's troops near Leesburg. In the darkness the party's inexperienced leader, Capt. Chase Philbrick, mistook a line of trees for a line of tents, and reported that he had stumbled across an unguarded Confederate camp. Early the next day, Col. Charles Devens was sent across the river to attack the ca…READ MORE
05/01/1862
Battle - Hancock - Washington County, Maryland; Morgan County, West Virginia
25/05/1862
Battle - First Winchester - Winchester, Virginia
Part of Jackson's Valley Campaign, the First Battle of Winchester took place May 24, 1862. The battle was huge victory for Jackson's troops and disrupted the Union's plans to take Richmond.READ MORE
08/08/1862
Battle - Madison Court House, Virginia
09/08/1862
Battle - Cedar Mountain - Culpeper County, Virginia
Maj. Gen. John Pope was placed in command of the newly-constituted Army of Virginia on June 26th. Pope's orders were to defend Washington DC and Union-held northern Virginia while the Army of the Potomac under Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan battled Robert E. Lee outside of Richmond. When McClellan was defeated at the end of the Seven Days battles less than a week later, Lee turned his attention north toward Pope while McClellan regrouped his army. Pope's three army corps were arrayed in a line from the Blu…READ MORE
22/08/1862
Battle - First Rappahannock Station - Culpeper County, Virginia; Fauquier County, Virginia
28/08/1862
Battle - Second Bull Run - Prince William County, Virginia
After the early summer collapse of the Union Peninsula Campaign offensive to capture Richmond, Robert E. Lee sought to move his army north and threaten Washington DC before Union forces could regroup.READ MORE
01/09/1862
Battle - Chantilly - Fairfax County, Virginia
Confederate Maj. Gen. "Stonewall" Jackson hoped to cut off the Union retreat from Manassas the day after the Confederate victory at the second battle fought there. Jackson's wing of Lee's army made a wide, flanking march, screened by Maj. Gen. J.E.B. Stuart's cavalry, north and then east, to take the strategically important village of Germantown. There, Maj. Gen. John Pope's only two retreat routes to Washington - the Warrenton Pike and the Little River Turnpike - converged. On September 1st, beyond Chanti…READ MORE
12/09/1862
Battle - Harpers Ferry - Jefferson County, West Virginia; Loudoun County, Virginia; Washington County, Maryland
As General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia advanced into Maryland in the fall of 1862, Lee made plans to capture the vital Union garrison at Harpers Ferry in the rear of his invading army. Although Maj. Gen. George McClellan's Army of the Potomac was in pursuit, in a bold maneuver Lee divided his army, sending three columns under Gen. Thomas 'Stonewall' Jackson to Harpers Ferry while the rest of the army marched towards Hagerstown, Maryland. Surrounded on three sides by steep heights, the terrai…READ MORE
13/12/1862
Battle - Fredericksburg - Fredericksburg, Virginia
In early November, Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside took command of the Army of the Potomac, and made immediate plans to move the army once again toward Richmond.READ MORE
27/12/1862
Battle - Dumfries, Virginia
30/04/1863
Battle - Chancellorsville - Spotsylvania County, Virginia
On April 27, 1863, Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker launched a turning movement designed to pry Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia out of its lines at Fredericksburg.READ MORE
09/06/1863
Leadership Change - Brigade - Colonel John P. Taylor, and Colonel Percy Wyndham
ColonelJohn P. Taylor
ColonelPercy Wyndham
09/06/1863
Leadership Change - Brigade - Colonel Percy Wyndham
ColonelPercy Wyndham
09/06/1863
Battle - Brandy Station - Culpeper County, Virginia
> *As we emerged from the woods into an open space or field where our mounted skirmishers were deployed, it was clearly discovered that our troops were confronted with a heavy line of infantry, who, with weapons of a longer range than that of our carbines, were dismounting our men at a fearful rate, whilst they were unable to inflict any punishment upon the enemy. As Colonel Devin approached the skirmish line, he at once became the target for the Rebel sharp shooters and, the way the minnie balls were whiz…READ MORE
17/06/1863
Battle - Aldie - Loudoun County, Virginia
Less than two weeks after the start of the Gettysburg Campaign, Maj. Gen. J.E.B. Stuart's cavalry successfully screened the Confederate infantry as it marched north behind the sheltering Blue Ridge Mountains. The Union Cavalry Corps commander, Brig. Gen. Alfred Pleasanton, ordered forward the division of Brig. Gen. David McMurtrie Gregg to penetrate Stuart's screen. The probing Federals of Brig. Gen. Judson Kilpatrick's cavalry brigade, in the advance of Gregg's division, encountered Col. Thomas T. Munford…READ MORE
17/06/1863
Battle - Middleburg - Loudoun County, Virginia
Less than two weeks after the start of the Gettysburg Campaign, Maj. Gen. J.E.B. Stuart's cavalry screened the Confederate infantry as it marched north behind the sheltering Blue Ridge Mountains. Stuart established his headquarters at Middleburg, on the Ashby's Gap Turnpike just east of the Blue Ridge, and scattered his brigades throughout the Loudoun Valley to monitor Union activity. Stuart's counterpart, the Federal cavalry commander, Maj. Gen. Alfred Pleasanton, had orders to penetrate Stuart's screen a…READ MORE
01/07/1863
Leadership Change - Brigade - Colonel John B. McIntosh
ColonelJohn B. McIntosh
01/07/1863
Leadership Change - Division - Brigadier General David McMurtrie Gregg
Brigadier GeneralDavid McMurtrie Gregg
01/07/1863
Battle - Gettysburg - Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
In the summer of 1863, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee launched his second invasion of the Northern states. Lee sought to capitalize on recent Confederate victories and defeat the Union army on Northern soil, which he hoped would force the Lincoln administration to negotiate for peace. Lee also sought to take the war out of the ravaged Virginia farmland and gather supplies for his Army of Northern Virginia. Using the Shenandoah Valley as cover for his army, Lee was pursued first by Union Maj. Gen. Joseph Ho…READ MORE
12/10/1863
Battle - Sulphur Springs, Virginia
05/06/1864
Leadership Change - Regiment - Major Robert S. Mooney
MajorRobert S. Mooney
05/06/1864
Leadership Change - Brigade - Colonel Andrew McReynolds
ColonelAndrew McReynolds
05/06/1864
Battle - Piedmont - Augusta County, Virginia
27/07/1864
Leadership Change - Brigade - Brigadier General Robert Sanford Foster
Brigadier GeneralRobert Sanford Foster
27/07/1864
Battle - First Deep Bottom - Henrico County, Virginia
Two weeks after Union forces arrived to invest the Confederate defenders of Petersburg, the battle lines of both sides settled into a stalemate. Since Cold Harbor, Lieut. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant was reluctant to mount a large frontal attack against well-entrenched Confederates. By late June, Grant's lines covered most of the eastern approaches to Petersburg, but neither side seemed ready to risk an offensive move. Determined to break the stalemate, Grant agreed to plans to blow up part of the Confederate def…READ MORE
14/08/1864
Battle - Second Deep Bottom - Henrico County, Virginia
As he had done in late July during the Battle of the Crater, Lieut. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant called upon Maj. Gen. Winfield S. Hancock and his Second Corps to attack Gen. Robert E. Lee's forces around Richmond to exploit suspected weaknesses in Lee's lines. In early August, Grant had detached the Sixth Corps from the Union lines around Richmond and Petersburg and sent them to the Shenandoah Valley under Maj. Gen. Phil Sheridan. Sheridan's new army there was to counter Gen. Jubal Early, then operating in the v…READ MORE
20/09/1864
Leadership Change - Brigade - Colonel Harris M. Plaisted
ColonelHarris M. Plaisted
20/09/1864
Leadership Change - Division - Brigadier General Alfred H. Terry
Brigadier GeneralAlfred H. Terry
20/09/1864
Battle - Chaffin's Farm - Henrico County, Virginia
07/10/1864
Battle - Darbytown and New Market Roads - Henrico County, Virginia
13/10/1864
Battle - Darbytown Road - Sandston, Virginia
27/10/1864
Battle - Fair Oaks & Darbytown Road - Henrico County, Virginia
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Fair_Oaks_%26_Darbytown_RoadREAD MORE
01/04/1865
Leadership Change - Regiment - Colonel Andrew W. Evans
ColonelAndrew W. Evans
01/04/1865
Leadership Change - Brigade - Colonel Andrew W. Evans, and Colonel Samuel P. Spear
ColonelAndrew W. Evans
ColonelSamuel P. Spear
01/04/1865
Leadership Change - Division - Brigadier General Ranald S. Mackenzie
Brigadier GeneralRanald S. Mackenzie
01/04/1865
Leadership Change - Brigade - Colonel Samuel P. Spear
ColonelSamuel P. Spear
01/04/1865
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
09/04/1865
Battle - Appomattox Court House - Appomattox Court House, Virginia
Between 26,000 and 28,000 Confederate soldiers surrendered and were paroled.READ MORE
08/08/1865
Mustered Out - Maryland 1st Volunteer Cavalry - Maryland
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