Organizational affiliation Attached to: • Attached as an independent command,
Department of the Gulf, to January 1863 • Defenses of New Orleans to May, 1863 • Cavalry,
XIX Corps,
Army of the Gulf, to July, 1863 • Defenses of New Orleans to October 1863 • Unattached Cavalry,
XIII Corps, Army of the Gulf, to June, 1864 • Cavalry Brigade, United States Forces, Texas, to July 1864 • District of Morganza, LA, Department of the Gulf, to August 1864 • Cavalry Brigade, XIX Corps, Army of the Gulf, to November 1864 • 2nd Separate Cavalry Brigade, XIX Corps, Army of the Gulf, to December 1864 • Separate Cavalry Brigade, Reserve Corps, Department of the Gulf, to February 1865 • Cavalry Brigade, District of Baton Rouge, to July 1865 • Department of Texas to November. 1865
List of battles The official list of battles in which the regiment bore a part: •
Second Bayou Teche Campaign •
Army of the Gulf South Texas Expedition •
Battle of Brownsville •
Battle of Laredo Detailed service Detailed service is as follows:
1862 • Duty in the Defences of New Orleans, La., till September, 1863
1863 • Sabine Pass Expedition September 4–11 • Western Louisiana ("Teche") Campaign October 3–17 • Nelson's Bridge, near New Iberia, October 4 • Vermillion Bayou October 9–10 • Carrion Crow Bayou October 14–15 • Ordered to New Orleans, La., October 17 • Expedition to the Rio Grande, Texas, October 23-December 2 • Occupation of Brazos Santiago November 2, and of Brownsville November 6 • Duty at Brownsville and on line of the Rio Grande till July, 1864
1864 • Rancho las Rinas June 26, 1864 (Cos. "A" and "C") • Ordered to New Orleans July, thence to Morganza, LA August 6 • Duty Morganza till November. (A Detachment remained in Texas at Brownsville till January, 1865 and participated in skirmish at Palmetto Ranch September 6, 1864) • Operations about Morganza September 16–25, 1864 • Williamsport September 16 • Atchafalaya River September 17 • Bayou Alabama and Morgan's Ferry September 20 • Ordered to Baton Rouge November 19 • Davidson's Expedition against Mobile & Ohio Railroad November 27-December 13 • Ordered to Lakeport December 17 • United States Forces at mouth of White River and at Baton Rouge, till May, 1865
1865 • Expedition to Clinton and the Comite River March 30-April 2, 1865 • Ordered to Vidalia, District of Natchez, MS, May 23, 1865 • Duty Natchez till June 29 • Ordered to Military District of the Southwest and duty in Texas till November • Mustered out November 4, 1864. ==Commanders==