Pennsylvania Civil War Union Cavalry Units

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The information in this list of Pennsylvania Military Units comes from the Civil War Soldiers and Sailors web site (CWSS). That web site can also be searched by the name of a soldier.


 * 1st Battalion, Pennsylvania Cavalry (6 months, 1863) "Compendium of the War of the Rebellion" by Frederick H. Dyer contains no history for this unit."


 * 1st Regiment, Pennsylvania Cavalry (15th Reserves) Companies "A," "B," "C," "D," "E," "F" and "G" organized at Camp Curtin, Pa. Mustered into State service July and August, 1861.


 * 1st Regiment, Pennsylvania Provisional Cavalry Organized at Cloud's Mills, Va., June 17, 1865, by consolidation of 2nd and 20th Pennsylvania Cavalry. Duty at Cloud's Mills till July. Mustered out July 13, 1865.


 * 2nd Regiment, Pennsylvania Cavalry (59th Volunteers) Organized at Philadelphia and Harrisburg, Pa., September, 1861, to April, 1862. Regiment lost during service


 * 2nd Regiment, Pennsylvania Provisional Cavalry Organized at Cloud's Mills, Va., June 17, 1865, by consolidation of 1st, 6th and 17th Pennsylvania Cavalry. Mustered out at Lebanon, Ky., August 7, 1865.


 * 3rd Regiment, Pennsylvania Cavalry Organized at Philadelphia July and August, 1861. Mustered out August 24, 1864.


 * 3rd Regiment, Pennsylvania Provisional Cavalry Organized at Cumberland, Md., June 24, 1865, by consolidation of 18th and 22nd Pennsylvania Cavalry. Mustered out October 31, 1865.


 * 4th Regiment, Pennsylvania Cavalry (64th Volunteers) Organized at Harrisburg, Philadelphia and Pittsburg August to October, 1861. Mustered out July 1, 1865.


 * 5th Regiment, Pennsylvania Cavalry (65th Volunteers) Organized at Philadelphia July to September, 1861. Mustered out August 7, 1865, and discharged at Philadelphia, Pa., August 16, 1865.


 * 6th Regiment, Pennsylvania Cavalry (70th Volunteers) Mustered out June 13, 1865.


 * 7th Regiment, Pennsylvania Cavalry (80th Volunteers) Organized at Harrisburg September to December, 1861. Mustered out August 13, 1865.


 * 8th Regiment, Pennsylvania Cavalry (89th Volunteers) Organized at Philadelphia August to October, 1861. Mustered out by consolidation with 16th Pennsylvania Cavalry July 24, 1865.


 * 9th Regiment, Pennsylvania Cavalry (92nd Volunteers) Organized at Harrisburg October and November, 1861. Mustered out July 18, 1865.