1st Nebraska Cavalry Regiment

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1st Nebraska Cavalry Regiment
ActiveOctober 11, 1863, to July 1, 1866
DisbandedJuly 1866
Country United States
Allegiance Union
Branch Cavalry
SizeRegiment
Engagements American Civil War
Commanders
Notable
commanders
Colonel Robert Ramsay Livingston
Colonel William Baumer

The 1st Nebraska Cavalry Regiment was a cavalry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

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Service

The 1st Nebraska Cavalry Regiment was created from the 1st Nebraska Infantry on October 11, 1863. The regiment was commanded by Colonel Robert Ramsay Livingston. It was later designated 1st Nebraska Veteran Cavalry on July 10, 1865, after being consolidated with 1st Battalion Nebraska Volunteer Cavalry. [1]

The regiment was attached to District of Southeast Missouri, Department of the Missouri, to November 1864. District of Northeast Arkansas, Department of the Missouri, to January 1864. District Northeast Arkansas, VII Corps, to May 1864. 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, VII Corps, Department of Arkansas, to October 1864. 4th Brigade, Cavalry Division, VII Corps, to October 1864. District of Nebraska and District of the Plains, to July 1866.[ citation needed ]

The 1st Nebraska Cavalry mustered out of service on July 1, 1866. [2]

Detailed service

The First Nebraska Cavalry had "veteran volunteered," as it was called. After a person had served in the field eighteen months, then he could "veteranize," as it was said, and enlist for three years longer and get a bounty of $300, so that soldiers and sometimes regiments "veteranized." The First Nebraska was a regiment in which the men had veteranized to such an extent that it was reorganized as a veteran regiment, and bore the name of veteran volunteer in the title of the regiment. The incursions of the Indians, and the vast damages which they had done in Nebraska, raised such an outcry that the Government had to send Nebraska troops home for the protection of Nebraska, the same as a portion of our regiment was stationed in Iowa. And so it happened that the "First Nebraska Veteran Volunteer Cavalry" was drawn from the field, and the Confederacy, and sent out to fight Indians in the Northwest. The 7th Iowa Cavalry and the First Nebraska got along together very well. [3]

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Notes

  1. "1st Regiment, Nebraska Cavalry". National Park Service. Retrieved 20 July 2023.
  2. "1st Regiment, Nebraska Cavalry". National Park Service. Retrieved 20 July 2023.
  3. Chapter 32, Ware, Eugene, The Indian War of 1864: Being a Fragment of the Early History of Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado and Wyoming", Crane & Company (1911). Eugene Ware was the most junior officer in the 7th Iowa Cavalry when on September 19, 1863, it was deployed to Omaha en route to the Indian Wars.
  4. Dyer, Frederick H. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion (Des Moines, IA: Dyer Pub. Co.), 1908. p.1344 This volume only covers service during the War of the Rebellion, which officially ended in late July, 1865. This Volunteer regiment like many others in the Western United States continued in service for another year or more until they could be replaced by U. S. Army units.

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