Michigan 2nd Volunteer Cavalry (Union)
10/2/61
Organized - Michigan 2nd Volunteer Cavalry - Michigan
2/28/62
Battle - Island Number Ten - New Madrid, Missouri; Lake County, Tennessee
In addition to prosecuting the coastal blockade and pursuing Confederate commerce raiders, the U.S. Navy's other main role in the Civil War, and arguably its most important one, was seizing and controlling the Mississippi River and its tributaries. In this effort, the main obstacle was not the tiny Confederate navy, but rather the formidable shore fortifications erected by the Confederates along the banks of the Tennessee, Cumberland and Mississippi Rivers. This war, therefore, was less often a matter of s…READ MORE
4/6/62
Battle - Shiloh - Hardin County, Tennessee
4/29/62
Leadership Change - Regiment - Colonel Philip H. Sheridan appointed 25 May
4/29/62
Leadership Change - Brigade - Colonel Philip H. Sheridan, and Colonel Washington Lafayette Elliott until 1 June
4/29/62
Leadership Change - Division - Brigadier General Gordon Granger
Brigadier GeneralGordon Granger
4/29/62
Battle - Siege of Corinth - Corinth, Mississippi
Union forces had captured the railroad junction and important transportation center at Corinth, Mississippi in the spring of 1862 after their victory at Shiloh. After the Battle of Iuka in September, Maj. Gen. Sterling Price's Confederate Army of the West marched to Ripley, Mississippi where it joined Maj. Gen. Earl Van Dorn's Army of West Tennessee. Van Dorn took command of the combined force numbering about 22,000 men. The Rebels marched southeast toward Corinth, hoping to recapture it and then sweep int…READ MORE
6/4/62
Battle - Blackland, Mississippi
9/30/62
Battle - Louisville, Kentucky
10/8/62
Leadership Change - Regiment - Lieutenant Colonel Archibald P. Campbell
Lieutenant ColonelArchibald P. Campbell
10/8/62
Leadership Change - Brigade - Captain Ebenezer Gay, and undefined k-4 w-14 m-1 = 19
10/8/62
Leadership Change - Regiment - Lieutenant Colonel Archibald P. Campbell
Lieutenant ColonelArchibald P. Campbell
10/8/62
Battle - Perryville - Perryville, Kentucky
On October 7, 1862, Maj. Gen. Don Carlos Buell's Army of the Ohio, in pursuit of Gen Braxton Bragg's Army of Mississippi, approached the crossroads town of Perryville, Kentucky. Union forces skirmished with Confederates on the Springfield Pike before heavy fighting began on Peters Hill. The next day, fighting continued as a Union division advanced up the pike. After noon, a Confederate division struck the Union left flank and forced it to fall back. When more Confederates joined the fray, the Union line ma…READ MORE
12/24/62
Battle - Glasgow, Kentucky
12/26/62
Battle - Bacon Creek, Kentucky
3/25/63
Battle - Brentwood - Williamson County, Tennessee
4/10/63
Leadership Change - Regiment - Lieutenant Colonel Josiah B. Parke
Lieutenant ColonelJosiah B. Parke
4/10/63
Leadership Change - Brigade - Lieutenant Colonel William B. Sipes
Lieutenant ColonelWilliam B. Sipes
4/10/63
Leadership Change - Division - Brigadier General David S. Stanley
Brigadier GeneralDavid S. Stanley
4/10/63
Battle - Franklin (1863) - Williamson County, Tennessee
The Battle of Franklin fought on April 10 1863, was a mere skirmish fought at the same location that the major Battle of Franklin would be fought in 1864.READ MORE
6/11/63
Battle - Triune, Tennessee
6/27/63
Battle - Shelbyville, Tennessee
9/19/63
Leadership Change - Regiment - Major Leonidas S. Scranton
MajorLeonidas S. Scranton
9/19/63
Leadership Change - Brigade - Colonel Archibald P. Campbell
ColonelArchibald P. Campbell
9/19/63
Leadership Change - Division - Colonel Edward M. McCook
ColonelEdward M. McCook
9/19/63
Battle - Chickamauga - Catoosa County, Georgia; Walker County, Georgia
After the successful Tullahoma Campaign, Maj. Gen. William Rosecrans continued the Union offensive, aiming to force Gen. Braxton Bragg's Confederate army out of Chattanooga. Through a series of skillful marches towards the Confederate-held city, Rosecrans forced Bragg out of Chattanooga and into Georgia. Determined to reoccupy the city, Bragg followed the Federals north, brushing with Rosecrans' army at Davis' Cross Roads. While they marched on September 18th, his cavalry and infantry skirmished with Un…READ MORE
12/29/63
Battle - Mossy Creek - Jefferson County, Tennessee
1/27/64
Battle - Fair Garden - Sevier County, Tennessee
4/2/64
Battle - Cleveland, Tennessee
5/13/64
Battle - Resaca - Gordon County, Georgia; Whitfield County, Georgia
Following his withdrawal from Rocky Face Ridge, the first battle in Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman's campaign against Atlanta, Confederate Gen. Joseph E. Johnston established a four-mile defensive position protecting the Western & Atlantic Railroad west and north of Resaca, where the railroad crossed the Oostanaula River. On May 13th, Sherman tested the Rebel lines, sending forward divisions to skirmish with the Confederates, with little substantive result. On the 14th, the fighting erupted into a full-…READ MORE
5/24/64
Battle - Burnt Hickory, Georgia
10/30/64
Battle - Florence, Alabama
11/30/64
Leadership Change - Regiment - Colonel Benjamin Smith
ColonelBenjamin Smith
11/30/64
Leadership Change - Brigade - Brigadier General John T. Croxton
Brigadier GeneralJohn T. Croxton
11/30/64
Leadership Change - Division - Brigadier General Edward M. McCook
Brigadier GeneralEdward M. McCook
11/30/64
Battle - Franklin (1864) - Franklin, Tennessee
After allowing Maj. Gen. John Schofield's Army of the Ohio to pass him near Spring Hill, Tennessee, the previous morning, Lt. Gen. John Bell Hood led his 30,000-man Army of Tennessee to the outskirts of Franklin on November 30th. Schofield's army had constructed a strong defensive line south of the town. Hood took a position two miles south of Schofield, with open, rolling farm land between them, and prepared to attack. At 4:00 p.m., over 20,000 Confederates moved forward east and west of the Columbia Pike…READ MORE
12/7/64
Battle - Nashville, Tennessee
12/15/64
Leadership Change - Regiment - Lieutenant Colonel Benjamin Smith
Lieutenant ColonelBenjamin Smith
12/15/64
Battle - Nashville - Nashville, Tennessee
Despite a series of defeats in the closing days of November, 1864, Confederate Lieut. Gen. John Bell Hood continued to drag his bloodied Army of Tennessee, approximately 30,000 strong, north towards Nashville. The city was protected by 55,000 Union soldiers, which should have precluded further offensive operations, but Hood was determined and his situation was dire. Hood reached Nashville on December 2nd and staked out a position south of the city, hoping to draw the Union forces into a costly attack. Ulys…READ MORE
12/24/64
Battle - Lynnville, Tennessee
4/3/65
Battle - Tuscaloosa, Alabama
8/17/65
Mustered Out - Michigan 2nd Volunteer Cavalry - Michigan
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