Michigan 2nd Volunteer Cavalry (Union)
02/10/1861
Organized - Michigan 2nd Volunteer Cavalry - Michigan
28/02/1862
Battle - Island Number Ten - New Madrid, Missouri; Lake County, Tennessee
In addition to prosecuting the coastal blockade and pursuing Confederate commerce raiders, the U.S. Navy's other main role in the Civil War, and arguably its most important one, was seizing and controlling the Mississippi River and its tributaries. In this effort, the main obstacle was not the tiny Confederate navy, but rather the formidable shore fortifications erected by the Confederates along the banks of the Tennessee, Cumberland and Mississippi Rivers. This war, therefore, was less often a matter of s…READ MORE
06/04/1862
Battle - Shiloh - Hardin County, Tennessee
29/04/1862
Leadership Change - Regiment - Colonel Philip H. Sheridan appointed 25 May
29/04/1862
Leadership Change - Brigade - Colonel Philip H. Sheridan, and Colonel Washington Lafayette Elliott until 1 June
29/04/1862
Leadership Change - Division - Brigadier General Gordon Granger
Brigadier GeneralGordon Granger
29/04/1862
Battle - Siege of Corinth - Corinth, Mississippi
Union forces had captured the railroad junction and important transportation center at Corinth, Mississippi in the spring of 1862 after their victory at Shiloh. After the Battle of Iuka in September, Maj. Gen. Sterling Price's Confederate Army of the West marched to Ripley, Mississippi where it joined Maj. Gen. Earl Van Dorn's Army of West Tennessee. Van Dorn took command of the combined force numbering about 22,000 men. The Rebels marched southeast toward Corinth, hoping to recapture it and then sweep int…READ MORE
04/06/1862
Battle - Blackland, Mississippi
30/09/1862
Battle - Louisville, Kentucky
08/10/1862
Leadership Change - Regiment - Lieutenant Colonel Archibald P. Campbell
Lieutenant ColonelArchibald P. Campbell
08/10/1862
Leadership Change - Brigade - Captain Ebenezer Gay, and undefined k-4 w-14 m-1 = 19
08/10/1862
Leadership Change - Regiment - Lieutenant Colonel Archibald P. Campbell
Lieutenant ColonelArchibald P. Campbell
08/10/1862
Battle - Perryville - Perryville, Kentucky
On October 7, 1862, Maj. Gen. Don Carlos Buell's Army of the Ohio, in pursuit of Gen Braxton Bragg's Army of Mississippi, approached the crossroads town of Perryville, Kentucky. Union forces skirmished with Confederates on the Springfield Pike before heavy fighting began on Peters Hill. The next day, fighting continued as a Union division advanced up the pike. After noon, a Confederate division struck the Union left flank and forced it to fall back. When more Confederates joined the fray, the Union line ma…READ MORE
24/12/1862
Battle - Glasgow, Kentucky
26/12/1862
Battle - Bacon Creek, Kentucky
25/03/1863
Battle - Brentwood - Williamson County, Tennessee
10/04/1863
Leadership Change - Regiment - Lieutenant Colonel Josiah B. Parke
Lieutenant ColonelJosiah B. Parke
10/04/1863
Leadership Change - Brigade - Lieutenant Colonel William B. Sipes
Lieutenant ColonelWilliam B. Sipes
10/04/1863
Leadership Change - Division - Brigadier General David S. Stanley
Brigadier GeneralDavid S. Stanley
10/04/1863
Battle - Franklin (1863) - Williamson County, Tennessee
The Battle of Franklin fought on April 10 1863, was a mere skirmish fought at the same location that the major Battle of Franklin would be fought in 1864.READ MORE
11/06/1863
Battle - Triune, Tennessee
27/06/1863
Battle - Shelbyville, Tennessee
19/09/1863
Leadership Change - Regiment - Major Leonidas S. Scranton
MajorLeonidas S. Scranton
19/09/1863
Leadership Change - Brigade - Colonel Archibald P. Campbell
ColonelArchibald P. Campbell
19/09/1863
Leadership Change - Division - Colonel Edward M. McCook
ColonelEdward M. McCook
19/09/1863
Battle - Chickamauga - Catoosa County, Georgia; Walker County, Georgia
After the successful Tullahoma Campaign, Maj. Gen. William Rosecrans continued the Union offensive, aiming to force Gen. Braxton Bragg's Confederate army out of Chattanooga. Through a series of skillful marches towards the Confederate-held city, Rosecrans forced Bragg out of Chattanooga and into Georgia. Determined to reoccupy the city, Bragg followed the Federals north, brushing with Rosecrans' army at Davis' Cross Roads. While they marched on September 18th, his cavalry and infantry skirmished with Un…READ MORE
29/12/1863
Battle - Mossy Creek - Jefferson County, Tennessee
27/01/1864
Battle - Fair Garden - Sevier County, Tennessee
02/04/1864
Battle - Cleveland, Tennessee
13/05/1864
Battle - Resaca - Gordon County, Georgia; Whitfield County, Georgia
Following his withdrawal from Rocky Face Ridge, the first battle in Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman's campaign against Atlanta, Confederate Gen. Joseph E. Johnston established a four-mile defensive position protecting the Western & Atlantic Railroad west and north of Resaca, where the railroad crossed the Oostanaula River. On May 13th, Sherman tested the Rebel lines, sending forward divisions to skirmish with the Confederates, with little substantive result. On the 14th, the fighting erupted into a full-…READ MORE
24/05/1864
Battle - Burnt Hickory, Georgia
30/10/1864
Battle - Florence, Alabama
30/11/1864
Leadership Change - Regiment - Colonel Benjamin Smith
ColonelBenjamin Smith
30/11/1864
Leadership Change - Brigade - Brigadier General John T. Croxton
Brigadier GeneralJohn T. Croxton
30/11/1864
Leadership Change - Division - Brigadier General Edward M. McCook
Brigadier GeneralEdward M. McCook
30/11/1864
Battle - Franklin (1864) - Franklin, Tennessee
After allowing Maj. Gen. John Schofield's Army of the Ohio to pass him near Spring Hill, Tennessee, the previous morning, Lt. Gen. John Bell Hood led his 30,000-man Army of Tennessee to the outskirts of Franklin on November 30th. Schofield's army had constructed a strong defensive line south of the town. Hood took a position two miles south of Schofield, with open, rolling farm land between them, and prepared to attack. At 4:00 p.m., over 20,000 Confederates moved forward east and west of the Columbia Pike…READ MORE
07/12/1864
Battle - Nashville, Tennessee
15/12/1864
Leadership Change - Regiment - Lieutenant Colonel Benjamin Smith
Lieutenant ColonelBenjamin Smith
15/12/1864
Battle - Nashville - Nashville, Tennessee
Despite a series of defeats in the closing days of November, 1864, Confederate Lieut. Gen. John Bell Hood continued to drag his bloodied Army of Tennessee, approximately 30,000 strong, north towards Nashville. The city was protected by 55,000 Union soldiers, which should have precluded further offensive operations, but Hood was determined and his situation was dire. Hood reached Nashville on December 2nd and staked out a position south of the city, hoping to draw the Union forces into a costly attack. Ulys…READ MORE
24/12/1864
Battle - Lynnville, Tennessee
03/04/1865
Battle - Tuscaloosa, Alabama
17/08/1865
Mustered Out - Michigan 2nd Volunteer Cavalry - Michigan
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