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词条 2nd Minnesota Volunteer Cavalry Regiment
释义

  1. Battles and campaigns

  2. Colonels

  3. Casualties and total strength

  4. References

  5. External links

  6. See also

{{Infobox Military Unit
|unit_name= 2nd Regiment Minnesota Volunteer Cavalry
|image=Flag of Minnesota.svg
|caption=Flag of Minnesota
|dates= December 5, 1863, to May 4, 1866
|country= United States
|allegiance= Union
|branch= Cavalry
|equipment=
|colonels_of_the_regiment=
|battles= Battle of Killdeer Mountain
}}

The 2nd Minnesota Volunteer Cavalry Regiment was a cavalry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

It was mustered in at Fort Snelling, Minnesota. for three year's service on December 5, 1863, and were mustered out on November 17, 1865, and May 4, 1866. The 2nd Minnesota Cavalry served entirely in Minnesota, Dakota Territory, and Montana Territory guarding the frontier against the Sioux Indians.

Battles and campaigns

  • Battle of Tah Kah A Kuty or Killdeer Mountain, July 28, 1864.
  • Action at Two Hills, Bad Lands, Little Missouri River, August 8 to 9, 1864.
  • Rescue of Fisk's Emigrant train, September 10 to 30,1864.

Colonels

  • Colonel Robert Neill McLaren

Casualties and total strength

The 2nd Minnesota Cavalry had 4 enlisted men killed in action or died of wounds received in battle and an additional 3 officers and 56 enlisted men died of disease. Total fatalities were 63. 

References

  • {{Cite book |editor1-first=C. C. |editor1-last=Andrews |editor1-link=Christopher Columbus Andrews |publisher = Printed for the state by the Pioneer Press Co |publication-place = St. Paul, Minn |url = http://openlibrary.org/books/OL7088819M/Minnesota_in_the_civil_and_Indian_wars_1861-1865 |title = Minnesota in the Civil and Indian Wars 1861-1865 |publication-date = 1891 }}
  • {{cite book

| last = Jones
| first = Robert Huhn
| title = The Civil War in the Northwest
| publisher = University of Oklahoma Press
| date = 1960
}}

External links

  • The Civil War Archive Website
  • [https://books.google.com/books?id=hR2BAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA544&lpg=PA544&dq=%22&source=bl&ots=RQ-fjsO5Y8&sig=o5KboaGdYs-ZihFhr6YdK2brs1s&hl=en&ei=Uu2NSfPcEZHItQPIuN2eCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result#PPA543,M1 Narrative of the Minnesota Second Regiment of Cavalry]
  • Map of General Sully's 1864 Campaign
  • Minnesota Historical Society page on Minnesota and the Civil War

See also

List of Minnesota Civil War Units{{AmericanCivilWar-unit-stub}}

4 : Minnesota Civil War regiments|1863 establishments in Minnesota|Military units and formations established in 1863|Military units and formations disestablished in 1866

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