1st Massachusetts Cavalry Regiment

1st Massachusetts Cavalry Regiment, U.S. Volunteers
Head Quarters of 1st Mass Cavalry, on Edisto Island, 1862
ActiveSeptember 3, 1861 to July 24, 1865
CountryUnited States
AllegianceUnion
BranchCavalry
EngagementsFirst Battle of Pocotaligo
Battle of Secessionville (Company H)
Battle of Antietam
Battle of Fredericksburg
Battle of Aldie
Battle of Gettysburg
Bristoe Campaign
Mine Run Campaign
Battle of Cedar Creek (Companies B, C, & D)
Battle of the Wilderness
Battle of Yellow Tavern
Battle of Spotsylvania Court House
Battle of Cold Harbor
Siege of Petersburg
First Battle of Deep Bottom
Battle of the Crater (Companies C & D)
Battle of Vaughan Road
Massachusetts U.S. Volunteer Cavalry Regiments 1861-1865
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2nd Massachusetts Volunteer Cavalry Regiment
Captain Charles Francis Adams Jr. (second from right) with officers of the 1st Massachusetts Cavalry, August 1864
Civil War veteran Henry Thurlow Bartlett of Co. H, 1st Massachusetts Cavalry Regiment in uniform wearing medals, 1898. From the Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress
Captain Daniel Henry Lawrence Gleason of Co. G, 1st Massachusetts Cavalry Regiment

The 1st Massachusetts Volunteer Cavalry Regiment was a cavalry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.[1]

  1. ^ Starr, Stephen Z. (1975). "The First Massachusetts Volunteer Cavalry, 1861-1865: A Fresh Look". Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society. 87: 88–104. JSTOR 25080777.