Command of 7th Pennsylvania Cavalry

Over the years the division was assigned to different military commands as follows:

  • Organized at Harrisburg September to December, 1861.
  • At Camp Cameron, Harrisburg, till December 19, 1861.
  • Moved to Louisville, Kentucky, December 19, 1861.
  • Ordered to Jeffersonville, Ind. Duty there till February, 1862.
  • Served unattached, Army Ohio, to March, 1862.
  • Negley’s 7th Independent Brigade, Army Ohio (1st Battalion).
  • Post of Nashville, Tennessee, Dept. Ohio (2nd Battalion).
  • 23rd Independent Brigade, Army Ohio (3rd Battalion), to September, 1862.
  • Cavalry, 8th Division, Army Ohio (1st and 2nd Battalions).
  • Unattached, Army Ohio (3rd Battalion), to November, 1862.
  • 1st Brigade, Cavalry Division, Army Ohio, to January, 1863.
  • 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, Cavalry Corps, Army Cumberland, to November, 1864.
  • 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, Cavalry Corps, Military Division Mississippi, to July, 1865.

1862: 7th Pennsylvania Cavalry

The three battalions served independent of each other until November, 1862.

1st Battalion (Cos. “A,” “D,” “H” and “I”)
sent to Columbia, Tennessee

  • Expedition to Rogersville, Tennessee – May 13-14, 1862
  • Lamb’s Ferry, Alabama – May 14, 1862
  • Advance on Chattanooga, Tennessee – June 1, 1862
  • Sweeden’s Cove, Tennessee – June 4, 1862
  • Chattanooga, Tennessee – June 7-8, 1862
  • Occupation of Manchester, Tennessee – July 1, 1862
  • Paris, Tennessee  – July 19, 1862
  • Raid on Louisville & Nashville Railroad – August 19-23, 1862
  • Huntsville Road, near Gallatin, Tennessee – August 21, 1862
  • Brentwood, Tennessee – September 19-20, 1862
  • Near Perryville, Tennessee – October 6-7, 1862
  • Chaplin Hills, Tennessee – October 8, 1862
  • Expedition from Crab Orchard to Big Hill and Richmond, Tennessee – October 21, 1862

2nd Battalion (Cos. “C,” “E,” “F” and “K”)
under Gen. Dumont, in garrison at Nashville, Tennessee, and scouting in that vicinity till November, 1862

3rd Battalion (Cos. “B,” “G,” “L” and “M”)
in Duffield’s Command, scouting in West and Middle Tennessee

  • Lebanon and pursuit to Carthage, Tennessee – May 5, 1862
  • Readyville, Tennessee – June 7, 1862
  • Murfreesboro, Tennessee – July 13, 1862
  • Sparta, Tennessee – August 4-5 and 7, 1862

Regiment reunited in November, 1862

  • Nashville, Tennessee – November 5, 1862
  • Reconnaissance from Nashville to Franklin, Tennessee – December 11-12, 1862
  • Wilson’s Creek Pike, Tennessee – December 11, 1862
  • Franklin, Tennessee – December 12, 1862
  • Near Nashville, Tennessee – December 24, 1862
  • Advance on Murfreesboro, Tennessee – December 26-30, 1862
  • Lavergne, Tennessee – December 26-27, 1862
  • Battle of Stone’s River, Tennessee – December 30-31, 1862, and January 1-3, 1863
  • Overall’s Creek, Tennessee – December 31, 1862

1863: 7th Pennsylvania Cavalry

  • Battle of Stone’s River, Tennessee – January 1-3, 1863
  • Manchester Pike and Lytle’s Creek, Tennessee – January 5, 1863
  • Expedition to Franklin, Tennessee –  January 31-February 18, 1863
  • Unionville and Rover, Tennessee –  January 31, 1863
  • Murfreesboro, Tennessee – February 7, 1863
  • Rover, Tennessee – February 13, 1863
  • Expedition toward Columbia, Tennessee – March 4-14, 1863
  • Unionville and Rover, Tennessee – March 4, 1863
  • Chapel Hill, Tennessee – March 5, 1863
  • Thompson’s Station, Tennessee – March 9, 1863
  • Rutherford Creek, Tennessee – March 10-11, 1863
  • Snow Hill, Woodbury, Tennessee -April 3, 1863
  • Franklin, Tennessee – April 10, 1863
  • Expedition to McMinnville, Tennessee – April 20-30, 1863
  • Middletown, Tennessee – May 21-22, 1863
  • Near Murfreesboro, Tennessee – June 3, 1863
  • Operations on Edgeville Pike, Tennessee – June 4, 1863
  • Marshall Knob, Tennessee – June 4, 1863
  • Shelbyville Pike, Tennessee – June 4, 1863
  • Scout on Mlddleton and Eagleville Pike, Tennessee – June 10, 1863
  • Scout on Manchester Pike, Tennessee – June 13, 1863
  • Expedition to Lebanon, Tennessee – June 15-17, 1863
  • Lebanon, Tennessee – June 16, 1863
  • Middle Tennessee or Tullahoma Campaign June 23-July 7, 1863
  • Guy’s Gap or Fosterville and capture of Shelbyville, Tennessee – June 27, 1863
  • Expedition to Huntsville, Alabama – July 13-22, 1863
  • Reconnaissance to Rock Island Ferry, Tennessee – August 4-5, 1863
  • Sparta Rock Island Ferry August 9, 1863
  • Passage of Cumberland Mountains and Tennessee River, and Chickamauga, Georgia Campaign – August 16-September 22, 1863
  • Calfkiller River, Sparta, Tennessee – August 17, 1863
  • Battle of Chickamauga, Georgia – September 19-20, 1863
  • Rossville, Georgia, September 21, 1863

Re-enlisted at Huntsville, Alabama, November 28, 1863

1864: 7th Pennsylvania Cavalry

Sherman’s Atlanta Campaign May to September, 1864

  • Demonstration on Rocky Faced Ridge, Georgia – May 8-11, 1864
  • Battle of Resaca, Georgia – May 14-15, 1864
  • Tanner’s Bridge and Rome, Georgia – May 15, 1864
  • Near Dallas, Georgia – May 24, 1864
  • Operations on line of Pumpkin Vine Creek and battles about Dallas, New Hope Church and Allatoona Hills, Georgia – May 25-June 5, 1864
  • Near Big Shanty, Georgia – June 9, 1864
  • Operations about Marietta and against Kenesaw Mountain, Georgia – June 10-July 2, 1864
  • McAffee’s Cross Roads, Georgia – June 11, 1864
  • Powder Springs, Georgia – June 20, 1864
  • Noonday Creek, Georgia – June 27, 1864
  • Line of Nickajack Creek, Georgia – July 2-5, 1864
  • Rottenwood Creek, Georgia – July 4, 1864
  • Roswell Factory, Georgia – July 5, 1864
  • Line of the Chattahoochee, Georgia – July 6-17, 1864
  • Garrard’s Raid on Covington, Georgia – July 22-24, 1864
  • Siege of Atlanta, Georgia – July 22-August 25, 1864
  • Garrard’s Raid to South River, Georgia – July 27-31, 1864
  • Flat Rock Bridge, Georgia – July 28, 1864
  • Kilpatrick’s Raid around Atlanta, Georgia – August 18-22, 1864
  • Flint River and Jonesboro, Georgia – August 19, 1864
  • Red Oak, Georgia – August 19, 1864
  • Lovejoy Station, Georgia – August 20, 1864
  • Operations at Chattahoochee River Bridge, Georgia – August 26-September 2, 1864

Following the Fall of Atlanta

  • Operations in North Georgia and North Alabama against Hood – September 29-November 3, 1864
  • Carter Creek Station, Tennessee – October 1, 1864
  • Near Columbia – October 2, 1864
  • Near Lost Mountain, Georgia- October 4-7, 1864
  • New Hope Church, Georgia – October 5, 1864
  • Dallas, Georgia –  October 7, 1864
  • Rome, Georgia –  October 10-11, 1864
  • Narrows, Georgia – October 11, 1864
  • Coosaville Road near Rome, Georgia –  October 13, 1864
  • Near Summerville, Georgia – October 18, 1864
  • Little River, Alabama – October 20, 1864
  • Leesburg, Alabama – October 21, 1864
  • Ladiga, Terrapin Creek, Alabama – October 28, 1864

Ordered to Louisville, Kentucky, to refit; duty there till December 28, 1864

1865: 7th Pennsylvania Cavalry

March to Nashville, Tennessee, December 28-January 8, 1865, thence to Gravelly Springs, Alabama, January 25, and duty there till March, 1865

  • Wilson’s Raid to Selma, Alabama, and Macon, Georgia, March 22-April 24, 1865
  • Selma, Alabama – April 2, 1865
  • Occupation of Montgomery, Alabama -April 12, 1865
  • Columbus, Georgia, April 16, 1865
  • Occupation of Macon, Georgia April 20, 1865
  • Pursuit of Jefferson Davis in Georgia, April, 1865
  • Duty in Georgia till August, 1865
  • Mustered out August 13, 1865

Casualties

Regiment lost during service 8 Officers and 94 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 5 Officers and 185 Enlisted men by disease. Total 292.