From
Dyer's Compendium
7th Regiment
Cavalry: "River Regiment." Regiment organized at Ripley, Ohio, October,
1862, and duty there till December, 1862. First Battalion (Cos. "A,"
"B," "C," "D"),
ordered to Lexington, Ky., November 22, 1862, and duty there untill December
21. 2nd Battalion ordered to Lexington, Ky., December 20,
1862, and 3rd
Battalion to same point December 31, 1862. Attached to
District of
Central Kentucky, Dept. Ohio, to January, 1863. 2nd Brigade, District of
Central Kentucky, to April, 1863. 1st Provisional Cavalry Brigade,
23rd Army Corps,
Army Ohio, to June, 1863. 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 23rd
Army Corps,
to August, 1863. 3rd Brigade, 4th Division, 23rd Army Corps, to
November, 1863.
1st Brigade, 2nd Division, Cavalry Corps, Dept. Ohio, to May, 1864.
1st Brigade, Cavalry Division, District of Kentucky, 5th Division, 23rd
Army Corps, to July, 1864. 1st Brigade, Cavalry Division, 23rd Army Corps,
to August, 1864. Mounted Brigade, Cavalry Division, 23rd Army Corps,
to September, 1864. 2nd Brigade, Cavalry Division, 23rd Army Corps, to
November, 1864. 2nd Brigade, 6th Division, Wilson's Cavalry Corps, Military
Division Mississippi, to December, 1864. 1st Brigade, 6th Division, Cavalry
Corps, to February, 1865. 2nd Brigade, 4th Division, Cavalry Corps,
to July, 1865.
SERVICE: 1st
Battalion participated in Carter's Raid into East Tennessee
and Southwest
Virginia December 21, 1862, to January 5, 1863. Passage of Moccasin Gap
December 29, 1862. Actions at Zollicoffer Station December 30. Watauga
Bridge, Carter's Station, December 30 (Cos. "A," "D"). Regiment participated
in operations in Central Kentucky against Cluke's forces February 18 -
March 5, 1863. Slate Creek near Mt. Sterling February 24 and March
2. Operations against Pegram March 22 - April 1. Dutton's Hill March 30.
Expedition to Monticello and operations in Southeast Kentucky April 26
- May 12. Monticello May 1. Rocky Gap, Monticello, June 9. Carter's Raid
in East Tennessee June 16 - 24. Knoxville June 19 - 20. Roger's Gap
June 20. Powder Springs Gap June 21. Scout to Creelsborough June 28 - 30.
Pursuit
of Morgan July
1 - 25. Buffington Island, Ohio, July 19. Operations against Scott in Eastern
Kentucky July 26 - August 6. Near Rogersville July 27. Richmond July 28.
Lancaster July 31. Paint Lick Bridge July 31. Lancaster August 1.
Burnside's Campaign in East Tennessee August 16 - October 19. Winter's
Gap August 31.
Expedition to
Cumberland Gap September 4 - 9. Capture of Cumberland Gap
September 9.
Carter's Station September 22. Zollicoffer September 24.
Jonesboro September
28. Blue Springs October 5 and 10. Sweetwater October 10 - 11. Pursuit
to Bristol October 11-17. Blountsville October 13
- 14. Moved
to Rogersville October 17 - 19. Knoxville Campaign November 4 - December
23. Action at Rogersville November 6. Stock Creek November 14. Defense
of Cumberland Gap during siege of Knoxville November 7 - December 5. Morristown
December 10. Cheek's Cross Roads December 12. Russellville December 12-13.
Bean's Station December 14. Rutledge December 16. Blain's Cross Roads
December 16 - 19. Rutledge December
18. Stone's
Mill December 19. New Market December 23. Dandridge December 24.
Mossy Creek December 26. Operations about Dandridge January 16 - 17, 1864.
Kimbrough's Cross
Roads January 16. Dandridge January 17. Operations
about Dandridge
January 26 - 28. Fair Garden January 27. Ordered to
Nicholasville,
Ky., February. Operations against Morgan in Kentucky May 31 - June 20 (Detachment).
Cynthiana June 12. March to Atlanta, Ga., July 4 - 26. Siege of Atlanta
July 26 - September 2. Stoneman's Raid to Macon July 27 - August 6 (Co.
"D"). Clinton and Macon July 30 (Co. "D"). Hillsborough July 30 -
31 (Co. "D"). Sandtown and Fairburn August 15. At Decatur until October
4. At Atlanta until November 6. Moved to Nashville, Tenn. Nashville
Campaign November-December. Henryville November 23. Columbia, Duck River,
November 24 - 27. Duck River Crossing November 28. Columbia Ford
November 29. Franklin November 30. Nashville December 15 - 16.
Pursuit of Hood
to the Tennessee River December 17 - 28. West Harpeth
River and Franklin
December 17. Spring Hill December 18. Richland Creek December 24.
Pulaski December 25 - 26. Moved to Gravelly Springs, Ala., and duty there
until March, 1865. Wilson's Raid from Chickasaw, Ala., to Macon, Ga., March
22 - April 24. Montevallo March 31. Ebenezer Creek near Mapleville
April 1. Selma April 2. Montgomery April 12. Columbia, Ga., April
16. Capture of Macon April 20. Scout duty in Northern Georgia until
May 15. Moved to Nashville, Tenn., and duty there until July. Mustered
out July 4, 1865.1
Regiment lost
during service 2 Officers and 26 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded
and 4 Officers and 197 Enlisted men by disease. Total 229.
