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Louisiana 1st Cavalry (Union)

01/08/1862

Organized - Louisiana 1st Cavalry - Louisiana

12/04/1863

Battle - Fort Bisland - St. Mary Parish, Louisiana

14/04/1863

Battle - Irish Bend - St Mary Parish, Louisiana

17/04/1863

Battle - Vermillion Bayou - Lafayette Parish, Louisiana

21/05/1863

Battle - Port Hudson - East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana; East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana

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Port Hudson

In cooperation with Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's final offensive against Vicksburg, Maj. Gen. Nathaniel P. Banks's army moved against the Confederate stronghold at Port Hudson on the Mississippi River. Like Vicksburg, Port Hudson was located atop high bluffs at the river bank that commanded the river. On May 11th, Banks learned that some Confederates had been moved from Port Hudson to support the forces defending Vicksburg, so he sought to move upon the garrison before those troops could be replaced. Banks…READ MORE

21/05/1863

Battle - Plains Store - East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana

20/06/1863

Battle - LaFourche Crossing - Lafourche Parish, Louisiana

11/11/1863

Battle - Carrion Crow Bayou, Louisiana

08/04/1864

Battle - Mansfield - DeSoto Parish, Louisiana

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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

18/05/1864

Battle - Yellow Bayou - Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana

27/03/1865

Battle - Spanish Fort - Baldwin, Alabama

09/04/1865

Battle - Fort Blakeley - Baldwin County, Alabama

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Fort Blakeley

Although the harbor of Mobile Bay had been closed to blockade running traffic since mid-summer 1864 with Admiral David G. Farragut's victory there, the port city of Mobile still remained in Confederate control. In late March 1865, two Federal infantry columns converged on the defenses of the city at Fort Blakeley and Spanish Fort. One force of 13,000 Union soldiers commanded by Gen. Frederick Steele moved west from Pensacola with orders to take Blakely from the rear. Union Gen. Edward R.S. Canby's Sixteent…READ MORE

18/12/1865

Mustered Out - Louisiana 1st Cavalry - Louisiana

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