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The 8th Cavalry Regiment is a regiment of the United States Army formed in 1866 during the American Indian Wars. The 8th Cavalry continued to serve under a number of designations, fighting in every other major U.S. conflict since, except World War I, when it was not deployed to Europe because it was already engaged in the Punitive Expedition in ...
108th Armored Cavalry Regiment (Mississippi Army National Guard) - Organized as the 750th Tank Battalion in the Mississippi Army National Guard with headquarters at Senatobia, MS, from 16 Feb-28 May 1956. Expanded, reorganized and redesignated with 1st, 2nd and 3rd Recce Squadrons, 108th Armored Cavalry Regiment, 1 May 1959.
The American Expeditionary Forces convened a Cavalry Board to consider the future of horse cavalry; this panel concluded that the employment of large cavalry units was probably obsolete, but that horse cavalry units of regiment size and below could be attached to infantry and armor units for reconnaissance and similar missions on an as needed ...
The 8th Virginia Cavalry Regiment was a cavalry regiment raised in Virginia for service in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. It fought mostly as part of the Army of Northern Virginia. [1] Virginia's 8th Cavalry Regiment was organized early in 1862 with nine companies but increased its number to eleven to July.
8th Michigan Cavalry Regiment, a Union regiment during the American Civil War; 8th Missouri Cavalry Regiment (Union), a Union regiment during the American Civil War; 8th New York Cavalry Regiment, a Union regiment during the American Civil War; 8th Ohio Cavalry Regiment, a Union regiment during the American Civil War; 8th Pennsylvania Cavalry ...
The 8th Ohio Cavalry Regiment was formed on January 4, 1864, from among members of the former 44th Ohio Infantry, under the command of Col. Samuel A. Gilbert. Organized and mustered into service in March 1864 at Camp Dennison in Cincinnati , it first served in West Virginia and was attached to 1st Brigade, 2nd Cavalry Division, Army of West ...
The regiment now returned to Falmouth and was employed in scout and picket duty along the Rappahannock, going into winter quarters at Acquia creek about the middle of February 1863. While here it was assigned. to Col. Devin's brigade of Pleasonton's division, comprising the 8th and 17th Pa. and 6th N. Y. cavalry.
The 8th Tennessee Cavalry was organized August 1863 at Camp Nelson, Kentucky, by consolidation of five companies that were organized June 30 through August 14, 1863, for the 10th Tennessee Cavalry and seven companies recruited at large in Tennessee for the 5th East Tennessee Cavalry. The regiment mustered in for a three-year enlistment under ...