22nd Regiment New York Volunteer Cavalry

22nd Regiment New York Volunteer Cavalry
Active March 8, 1864 (left NYS) to August 1, 1865 (mustered out)
Country  United States
Allegiance Union
Branch Cavalry
Engagements Battle of the Wilderness
Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse
Battle of Cold Harbor
Battle of Petersburg
Valley Campaigns of 1864
Insignia
4th Division, IX Corps

The 22nd New York Volunteer Cavalry Regiment was a cavalry regiment of the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Service

The regiment was organized in Rochester, New York between December 1863 and February 1864, and was mustered in for three years' service. Some of the veterans recruited came from the 23rd New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment.

The companies were recruited principally:

The regiment served in the 9th Corps, at Alexandria, Virginia, from March, 1864; in the 4th Division, 9th Corps, from April, 1864; in the 2d Brigade, 3d Division, Cavalry Corps, Army of the Potomac, from May, 1864; unattached, Army of the Potomac, from May 8, 1864; with its brigade in June, 1864; with the Army of the Shenandoah from October, 1864, and in the Cavalry Division, Army of West Virginia, from February, 1865.

The regiment was mustered out of service at Winchester, Virginia, on August 1, 1865, except for a detachment mustered out at Hart Island, New York on May 1 of that year.

Total strength and casualties

During its service, the regiment lost by death, killed in action, 2 officers, 9 enlisted men; of wounds received in action, 1 officer, 13 enlisted men; of disease and other causes, 1 officer, 178 enlisted men; total, 4 officers, 200 enlisted men; aggregate, 204; of whom 87 enlisted men died in the hands of the enemy.[1]

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Notes

  1. "22nd Cavalry Regiment ivil War Rochester Cavalry". New York State Military Museum. Retrieved November 9, 2012.

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