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The 1st New York Cavalry Regiment was a regiment in the Union Army in the American Civil War. It was also known as the Lincoln Cavalry, Carbine Rangers, Sabre Regiment, and 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry. [1] It was mustered in from July 16 to August 31, 1861. It was mustered out June 27, 1865.
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Recruiting poster of the 1st New York Mounted Rifles. Companies organized and mustered in between July 1861 and September 1862, and served in the Department of Virginia (VII Corps and IV Corps) and Department of Virginia and North Carolina, principally at Fort Monroe, Norfolk and Suffolk, Portsmouth, Williamsburg and Yorktown, Virginia; in Wistar's Division, XVIII Corps, from January 1864; in ...
1st Regiment New York Veteran Volunteer Cavalry: 1st Regiment New York Mounted Rifles: Sometimes referred to as 7th Regiment New York Volunteer Cavalry: 1st Regiment New York Dragoons: 1st Regiment New York Provisional Cavalry: 2nd Regiment New York Volunteer Cavalry "Harris Light" 2nd Regiment New York Veteran Volunteer Cavalry "Empire Light ...
Clarke resigned from the army in December, 1843 and practiced law in New York City and Westchester County. [9] Also in December, 1843 he married Alletta Remsen Lawrence, a member of another prominent New York family. [10] He was an unsuccessful Whig candidate for election in 1852 to the Thirty-third Congress. [11]
C. 1st New York Cavalry Regiment; 2nd New York Cavalry Regiment; 3rd New York Cavalry Regiment; 3rd New York Provisional Cavalry Regiment; 4th New York Provisional Cavalry Regiment
Since the 7th New York Volunteers was composed of infantry, cavalry, and artillery the regiment was also called the New York Legion. Finally, it was re-designated in early 1848 by the War Department as the 1st Regiment New York Volunteers, for service in California and during the war with Mexico, and is now also called the 1st New York Legion.
With the outbreak of the Civil War and the War Department's wanting to re-designate all mounted regiments as cavalry and to renumber them in order of seniority., the First Dragoons became the "First Regiment of Cavalry" by an Act of Congress on 3 August 1861 (the existing First Cavalry Regiment (formed in 1855) was the fourth oldest mounted ...