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The 2nd Nebraska Cavalry Regiment was initially organized at Omaha, Nebraska, on October 23, 1862, as a nine-month regiment, and served for over one year.They were attached to General Sully's command, who was in a campaign against Indians in Western Nebraska and Dakota, who were forced to move south from Minnesota following the Dakota War of 1862.
The following is a list of Nebraska Territory units formed during the American Civil War.Some saw action only on the frontier in the Indian Wars.The state raised one regiment of infantry (subsequently converted to cavalry), two regiments (including the converted infantry) and a battalion of cavalry (successor of the second cavalry regiment), several companies of militia, and two scout companies.
Category: 1862 establishments in Nebraska Territory. ... 2nd Nebraska Cavalry Regiment; A. ... Union Pacific Railroad
McFarland & Company, Inc. ISBN 0-7864-2726-4. Hatch, Thom (2020). The Blue, The Gray and The Red - Indian Campaigns of the Civil War. Turner Publishing Company. ISBN 9781684424559. Kingsbury, David L. (1898). Sully's Expedition Against the Sioux in 1864. Michino, Gregory F. (2003). Encyclopedia of Indian Wars: Western Battles and Skirmishes ...
In 1862, the children's father, Henson Wiseman, a native of what is now West Virginia, enlisted in Company I, of the 2nd Nebraska Cavalry. In the spring of 1863, the Nebraska 2nd was posted at Omadi just near present-day Dakota City. The expedition was ordered upriver along the Missouri River on horseback.
By the end of the Civil War, more than a third (3,157) of the men of military age in the Nebraska Territory had served in the Union Army. In addition to the 1st Nebraska, the territory raised three other full regiments of cavalry, as well as several battalions of militia. Thirty-five Nebraskans were killed in action during the war, while ...
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When the nine-month 2nd Nebraska Cavalry Regiment was mustered out of service in ... 1865, and at Gillman's Station until July, 1865. Company "B" at Dakota City until ...