Illinois 2nd Volunteer Cavalry (Union)
12/08/1861
Organized - Illinois 2nd Volunteer Cavalry - Illinois
11/12/1861
Battle - Bertrand, Missouri
11/02/1862
Leadership Change - Regiment - Captain John Hotaling, and Major John J. Mudd
CaptainJohn Hotaling
MajorJohn J. Mudd
11/02/1862
Leadership Change - Brigade - Colonel Richard J. Oglesby
ColonelRichard J. Oglesby
11/02/1862
Leadership Change - Regiment - Major John J. Mudd
MajorJohn J. Mudd
11/02/1862
Battle - Fort Donelson - Fort Donelson, Tennessee
Early in the war, Union commanders realized control of the major rivers would be the key to success in the Western Theater.READ MORE
28/02/1862
Leadership Change - Regiment - Lieutenant Colonel Harvey Hogg
Lieutenant ColonelHarvey Hogg
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
Leadership Change - Regiment - Captain John R. Hotaling
CaptainJohn R. Hotaling
06/04/1862
Leadership Change - Division - Brigadier General W.H.L. Wallace
Brigadier GeneralW.H.L. Wallace
06/04/1862
Battle - Shiloh - Hardin County, Tennessee
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
30/08/1862
Battle - Bolivar, Tennessee
20/12/1862
Battle - Holly Springs - Holly Springs, Mississippi
12/05/1863
Leadership Change - Regiment - Lieutenant William B. Cummins
LieutenantWilliam B. Cummins
12/05/1863
Leadership Change - Brigade - Captain John S. Foster
CaptainJohn S. Foster
12/05/1863
Battle - Raymond - Hinds County, Mississippi
On May 12th, 1863, after days of hard marching towards Jackson, Mississippi, Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant fought to secure the crossings of Fourteenmile Creek southwest of Raymond, which would provide a vital water source for his men and animals and serve as a staging area for a strike on the Confederate rail supply line between Clinton and Edwards, Mississippi. Cutting the railroad here would cut off supplies to Grant's ultimate goal, the Mississippi River city of Vicksburg 30 miles to the west. At around…READ MORE
16/05/1863
Leadership Change - Regiment - undefined Jr., and Lieutenant Colonel Daniel B. Bush
Lieutenant ColonelDaniel B. Bush
16/05/1863
Battle - Champion Hill - Hinds County, Mississippi
The Battle of Champion Hill was the largest and bloodiest action of Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's Vicksburg Campaign.READ MORE
08/04/1864
Battle - Mansfield - DeSoto Parish, Louisiana
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
01/05/1864
Battle - Alexandria, Louisiana
18/05/1864
Battle - Yellow Bayou - Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana
30/12/1865
Mustered Out - Illinois 2nd Volunteer Cavalry - Illinois
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