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11th New
York Cavalry
Online Books:
11th New York Cavalry Soldier
Roster - Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of New York For the Year
1893, Volume 3 View the Entire Book
| Regimental History |
| Eleventh New York Cavalry. — Cols., James B. Swain, John P. Sherburne, Samuel
H. Wilkeson; Lieut.-Cols., L. P. Di Cesnola, William W. Bennett, Samuel H. Wilkeson,
Michael A. McCallum; Majs., William W. Bennett, Seth P. Remington, Horace D. Ellsworth,
George W. Richardson, Wilbur F. Raymond, Joseph C. Kenyon, Thomas F. Gamble, George W.
Smith, Augustus Pruyn. The 11th cavalry, "Scott's 900," recruited from the state
at large, was organized at New York city, where the first ten companies were mustered into
the U. S. service between Dec, 1861, and May, 1862, for three years. Cos. L and M were
mustered in Aug. and Sept., 1862, and joined the regiment in October. On the expiration of
their term of service the original members, except veterans, were mustered out and the
veterans and recruits were consolidated on July 21, 1865, into a battalion of four
companies, which remained in service until Sept. 30, 1865, when it was mustered out at
Memphis, Tenn. The regiment left the state on May 5, 1862, and served in the Military
district of Washington, 22nd corps, a part of it being detached for service in the 8th
corps, Middle Department, until March, 1864, when it was transferred to the Department of
the Gulf. During this period it was active in engagements at the Blue ridge, Va.;
Poolesville, Md., where it lost 4 wounded and 16 missing, among the latter being Lieut.
William Smith; Fairfax Court House, Va., where a large part of a squadron under Maj.
Remington was overcome by superior numbers and captured after a heroic resistance, the
losses being 3 killed, 15 wounded and 55 captured, though Maj. Remington succeeded in
cutting his way out with 18 men. It was also engaged at Bolivar Heights, Harper's Ferry,
Halltown, Edwards' ferry, Leesburg and Rockville, but with slight casualties. While in the
Department of the Gulf it was engaged at New river, Manning's plantation, Doyal's
plantation, where it sustained a loss of 2 wounded and 98 captured, Bayou Sara, Jackson
and Clinton, La., and at Brookhaven, Liberty, Franklin and Ocean Springs, Miss. Early in
1865, it was transferred to the Department of the Cumberland and was engaged near Memphis,
Tenn., in March, with a loss of 32 wounded, and at Germantown, Miss., in April, with a
loss of 42 killed, wounded and missing. The regiment lost altogether 1 officer and 22 men
killed in action and died of wounds; 2 officers and 319 enlisted men died of disease,
accidents, in prison, etc.; total deaths, 344. It also lost a number of men by drowning,
due to the foundering of the steamer North America off the coast of Florida on Dec. 22,
1864. |
Footnotes:
Regimental history taken from "The Union Army" by Federal Publishing
Company, 1908 - Volume 2
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