Louisiana 2nd Cavalry (Union)
1862-09-29
Organized - Louisiana 2nd Cavalry - Louisiana
1863-04-12
Battle - Fort Bisland - St. Mary Parish, Louisiana
1863-04-14
Battle - Irish Bend - St Mary Parish, Louisiana
1863-04-17
Battle - Vermillion Bayou - Lafayette Parish, Louisiana
1863-05-21
Battle - Port Hudson - East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana; East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana
In cooperation with Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's final offensive against Vicksburg, Maj. Gen. Nathaniel P. Banks's army moved against the Confederate stronghold at Port Hudson on the Mississippi River. Like Vicksburg, Port Hudson was located atop high bluffs at the river bank that commanded the river. On May 11th, Banks learned that some Confederates had been moved from Port Hudson to support the forces defending Vicksburg, so he sought to move upon the garrison before those troops could be replaced. Banks…READ MORE
1863-05-21
Battle - Plains Store - East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana
1863-06-20
Battle - LaFourche Crossing - Lafourche Parish, Louisiana
1864-04-08
Battle - Mansfield - DeSoto Parish, Louisiana
The Red River Campaign of 1864 was one General-in-Chief Ulysses S. Grant's initiatives to apply simultaneous pressure on Confederate armies along five separate fronts from Louisiana to Virginia. In addition to defeating the defending Confederate army, the campaign sought to confiscate cotton stores from plantations along the river and to give support to pro-Union governments in Louisiana. By early April, Maj. Gen. Nathaniel P. Banks' Union army was about 150 miles up the Red River threatening Shreveport. C…READ MORE
1864-04-09
Battle - Pleasant Hill - Desoto Parish, Louisiana; Sabine Parish, Louisiana
1864-05-16
Battle - Mansura - Mansura, Louisiana
1864-05-18
Battle - Yellow Bayou - Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana
1865-03-27
Battle - Spanish Fort - Baldwin, Alabama
1865-04-09
Battle - Fort Blakeley - Baldwin County, Alabama
Although the harbor of Mobile Bay had been closed to blockade running traffic since mid-summer 1864 with Admiral David G. Farragut's victory there, the port city of Mobile still remained in Confederate control. In late March 1865, two Federal infantry columns converged on the defenses of the city at Fort Blakeley and Spanish Fort. One force of 13,000 Union soldiers commanded by Gen. Frederick Steele moved west from Pensacola with orders to take Blakely from the rear. Union Gen. Edward R.S. Canby's Sixteent…READ MORE
1865-09-11
Mustered Out - Louisiana 2nd Cavalry - Louisiana
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