New York 2nd Veteran Cavalry (Union)
20/07/1863
Organized - New York 2nd Veteran Cavalry - New York
08/04/1864
Battle - Mansfield - DeSoto Parish, Louisiana
Mansfield
The Red River Campaign of 1864 was one General-in-Chief Ulysses S. Grant's initiatives to apply simultaneous pressure on Confederate armies along five separate fronts from Louisiana to Virginia. In addition to defeating the defending Confederate army, the campaign sought to confiscate cotton stores from plantations along the river and to give support to pro-Union governments in Louisiana. By early April, Maj. Gen. Nathaniel P. Banks' Union army was about 150 miles up the Red River threatening Shreveport. C…READ MORE
09/04/1864
Battle - Pleasant Hill - Desoto Parish, Louisiana; Sabine Parish, Louisiana
16/05/1864
Battle - Mansura - Mansura, Louisiana
08/11/1865
Mustered Out - New York 2nd Veteran Cavalry - New York
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