1st Louisiana Cavalry Regiment (Union)

June 2024 June 2024 1st Louisiana Regiment Cavalry August, 1862 – December 18, 1865 United States of America USA 1861 Union Army, American Civil War Cavalry Fort BislandIrish BendVermilion Bayou Plains StorePort HudsonLaFourche CrossingSabine CrossroadsPleasant HillCane River CrossingMansura Yellow BayouSpanish FortFort Blakeley Maj Harai Robinson Commander The 1st Louisiana Regiment Cavalry was a cavalry unit in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Dyer Frederick Henry Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories T. Yoseloff 1908 New York https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2001.05.0146%3Achapter%3D16%3Aregiment%3DLA1Cav The regiment was one of several organized in New Orleans in August 1862 by order of Maj. Gen. Benjamin F. Butler and recruited from among "white Unionists, and pro-Northern refugees" in the city; it consisted primarily of foreigners and men of Northern birth. "The Carnival of Death": The Cavalry Battle at Cheneyville, Louisiana, May 20, 1863 Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association Spring 2001 Donald S. Frazier 42 2 193–207 4233734 Service The unit was assigned in 1863 to the Union XIX Corps of Maj. Gen. Nathaniel P. Banks in the Department of the Gulf. They participated in operations in Western Louisiana: Fort Bisland, Irish Bend, and Vermilion Bayou in April, 1863 and in the Siege of Port Hudson from May to July. The regiment participated in the Red River Campaign from March to May, 1864. The unit left Louisiana and moved to Fort Barrancas, Florida in February 1865. It joined the campaign against Mobile, Alabama. The regiment then marched to Blakeley, across the Mobile River, taking control of its Fort Blakeley, a major fort during the war. This completed Confederate defeat in the area.October 2023 The unit mustered out on December 18, 1865. 2nd Louisiana Regiment Cavalry The 2nd Louisiana Regiment Cavalry was originally organized as the 3rd Louisiana Infantry in New Orleans on November 25, 1863. Dyer Frederick Henry Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories T. Yoseloff 1908 New York https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2001.05.0146%3Achapter%3D16%3Aregiment%3DLA2Cav After serving at the defenses of Brashear City, Baton Rouge and Port Hudson, the unit was consolidated with 1st Louisiana Cavalry on September 7, 1864. See also List of Louisiana Union Civil War units References Louisiana Regiment Cavalry, 001 Category:Military units and formations established in 1862 Category:1862 establishments in Louisiana Category:Military units and formations disestablished in 1865 Further reading Butler Clayton J. True Blue: White Unionists in the Deep South during the Civil War and Reconstruction LSU Press 2022 9780807177549