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The regiment was attached to Thomas' Command, Camp Dick Robinson, Kentucky, to December 1861. 1st Division, Army of the Ohio, to March 1862. (5 companies attached to Garfield's 18th Brigade, Army of the Ohio, December 1861 to March 1862.)
The 1st Kentucky Cavalry was organized at Bowling Green, Kentucky and was mustered into the Confederate States Army on October 28, 1861. Commanded by Colonel Benjamin Hardin Helm the regiment briefly served in the Orphan Brigade before being brigaded with the 8th Texas Cavalry under the overall command of Joseph Wheeler.
Lt R.A. Mizell of the "Southern Rifles" Company A 4th Georgia Infantry; resigned in 1864 after being wounded in the Battle of the Wilderness; joined Company "A" 2nd Kentucky Cavalry of John Hunt Morgan command Group of John Hunt "Morgan's Men" while prisoners of war in Western Penitentiary, Pennsylvania: (l to r) Captain William E. Curry, 8th Kentucky Cavalry; Lieutenant Andrew J. Church, 8th ...
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In 1855–56, he joined Walker in Nicaragua, and later commanded a Kentucky cavalry regiment on the Union side during the U.S. Civil War. [37] He was a machinist and hotelkeeper before the Civil War and he enslaved 9 individuals during his time in Owen County, Kentucky in 1860. [38]
With the outbreak of the Civil War and the War Department's wanting to re-designate all mounted regiments as cavalry and to renumber them in order of seniority., the First Dragoons became the "First Regiment of Cavalry" by an Act of Congress on 3 August 1861 (the existing First Cavalry Regiment (formed in 1855) was the fourth oldest mounted ...
Munday's 1st Battalion Kentucky Cavalry was organized at Lexington, Kentucky in December 1861 and mustered in for three years under the command of Major Reuben Munday. The regiment was attached to 12th Brigade, Army of the Ohio , to February 1862. 7th Division, Army of the Ohio, to October 1862.
The 1st Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment is the BCT cavalry squadron assigned to the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division.Carrying the lineage of Company A, United States Regiment of Dragoons, the squadron has served in the Mexican-American War, Civil War, various Indian wars, the Spanish–American War, the Philippine Insurrection, World War II, Vietnam, and the Global War on Terrorism.