The 2nd Rhode Island Cavalry Regiment was a

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Service

The 2nd Rhode Island Cavalry Regiment was organized in

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, Rhode Island and mustered on November 21, 1862, for a three-year enlistment. The regiment never reached full strength. The regiment was attached to 1st Division, XIX Corps,

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, to July 1863. Cavalry Brigade, XIX Corps, to August 1863. Ordered to

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, Louisiana, and served duty there until March 1863. Moved to

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, Louisiana, March 6–7, 1863. Participated in the operations against Port Hudson, March 7–27. Moved to Algiers, then to Berwick April 1–9. Operations in western Louisiana April 9-May 14. Teche Campaign April 11–20. Franklin April 14. Near Washington May 1. Expedition from Opelousas to Alexandria and Simsport May 5–18. Operations about Monett's Plantation and on Bayou Sara Road May 18–19. Moved to Bayou Sara, then to Port Hudson May 22–25. Siege of Port Hudson May 25-July 9. Jackson Cross Roads June 20.

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July 2. Surrender of Port Hudson July 9. The regiment was first consolidated into a battalion of four companies August 24, 1863, and attached to the 1st Louisiana Cavalry. It served thus at

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, Thibodeaux, August 29–30 and then ceased to exist on January 14, 1864, when its members were transferred to the

3rd Rhode Island Cavalry The 3rd Rhode Island Cavalry Regiment was a cavalry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. The regiment briefly served dismounted as infantry in the defenses of New Orleans, June–September, 1864. Service The 3rd ...

Casualties

The regiment lost a total of 35 enlisted men during service; 4 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded, 31 enlisted men died of disease.Fox, William F., Lt.-Col., 'Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865', Albany, N.Y., 1889, p. 472.

Commanders

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References

* Dyer, Frederick H. ''A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion'' (Des Moines, Iowa: Dyer Pub. Co.), 1908. * Sabre, Gilbert E. ''Nineteen Months a Prisoner of War: Narrative of Lieutenant G. E. Sabre, Second Rhode Island Cavalry, of His Experience in the War Prisons and Stockades of Morton, Mobile, Atlanta, Libby, Belle Island, Andersonville, Macon, Charleston, and Columbia, and His Escape to the Union Lines, to Which is Appended a List of Officers Confined at Columbia, During the Winter of 1864 and 1865'' (New York: American News Co.), 1865. ;Attribution * {{Authority control Military units and formations established in 1862 Military units and formations disestablished in 1864 2nd Rhode Island Cavalry 1862 establishments in Rhode Island

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