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First Vermont Cavalry.
Farnsworth's Brigade —
Kilpatrick's Division--Cavalry Corps.
| companies. | killed and died of wounds. | died of disease, accidents, in Prison, &c. | Total Enrollment. |
| Officers. | Men. | Total. | Officers. | Men. | Total. |
| Field and Staff | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 21 |
| Company | A | | 12 | 12 | | 22 | 22 | 189 |
| | B | 1 | 19 | 20 | 2 | 25 | 27 | 176 |
| | C | | 10 | 10 | | 32 | 32 | 190 |
| | D | | 7 | 7 | | 29 | 29 | 192 |
| | E | 2 | 16 | 18 | | 17 | 17 | 187 |
| | F | | 10 | 10 | | 29 | 29 | 182 |
| | G | 2 | 2 | 4 | | 35 | 35 | 198 |
| | H | 1 | 11 | 12 | | 25 | 25 | 193 |
| | I | 1 | 11 | 12 | | 24 | 24 | 183 |
| | K | 1 | 6 | 7 | | 21 | 21 | 180 |
| | L | | 15 | 15 | | 19 | 19 | 145 |
| | M | 1 | 4 | 5 | | 21 | 21 | 127 |
| Totals | 10 | 124 | 134 | 4 | 300 | 304 | 2,163 |
The loss by disease includes 149 deaths in Confederate prisons.
| battles. | K. & M. W. | battles. | K. & M. W. | battles. | K. & M. W. |
| Port Republic, April 27, 1862 | 1 | Picket, Sept. 26, 1863 | 1 | Nottoway C. H., June 23, 1864 | 4 |
| Woodstock, May 20, 1862 | 1 | Brandy Station, Oct. 11, 1863 | 3 | Stony Creek, June 29, 1864 | 9 |
| Middletown, May 24, 1862 | 3 | Rapidan, Feb. 3, 1864 | 1 | In action, July 2, 1864 | 1 |
| Winchester, May 25, 1862 | 1 | Richmond, Mch. 1, 1864 | 4 | Leetown, Aug. 25, 1864 | 4 |
| Milford, June 30, 1862 | 1 | Richmond, Mch. 2, 1864 | 1 | Front Royal, Sept. 21, 1864 | 1 |
| Orange C. H., Aug. 2, 1862 | 1 | Craig's Church, May 5, 1864 | 10 | Skirmish, Oct. 6, 1864 | 1 |
| Rappahannock, Aug. 22, 1862 | 2 | Yellow Tavern, May 11, 1864 | 3 | Columbia Furnace, Oct. 7, 1864 | 7 |
| Ashby's Gap, Sept. 22, 1862 | 1 | Strawberry Hill, May 12, 1864 | 3 | Columbia Furnace, Oct. 8, 1864 | 1 |
| Broad Run, April 1, 1863 | 7 | In action, May 30, 1864 | 1 | Mount Olive, Oct. 9, 1864 | 3 |
| Greenwich, May 30, 1863 | 1 | Ashland, June 1, 1864 | 3 | Kernstown, Nov. 11, 1864 | 1 |
| Gettysburg, July 3, 1863 | 17 | Salem Church, June 3, 1864 | 3 | Cedar Springs, Nov. 12, 1864 | 4 |
| Cashtown, July 5, 1863 | 1 | In action, June 12, 1864 | 1 | Waynesboro, Mch. 2, 1865 | 1 |
| Hagerstown, July 6, 1863 | 8 | White Oak Swamp, June 14, 1864 | 1 | Petersburg, April 3, 1865 | 2 |
| Boonsboro, July 9, 1863 | 2 | Malvern Hill, June 15, 1864 | 2 | Appomattox, April 8, 1865 | 1 |
| Culpeper, Sept. 13, 1863 | 1 | Prince Geo.
C. H., June 21, 1864 | 1 | Picket, skirmishes, places unknown | 8 |
notes.--Organized at
Burlington,.
Vt., leaving the
State December 14, 1861, with ten companies only; Companies L and M were not recruited until a year later.
In the spring of 1862 it was assigned to duty in
Banks's Corps, then in the Shenandoah Valley, whereupon its active service immediately commenced.
It formed part of a cavalry brigade, under
General John P. Hatch, with which it took an active part in the fighting at
Winchester, May 25, 1862, and on
Banks's retreat.
In these operations the regiment, acting as a rear guard, lost 105 men, captured or missing, in addition to their killed and wounded.
At
Gettysburg it was in
Farnsworth's (1st) Brigade,
Kilpatrick's (3d) Division, Cavalry Corps.
On the third day of that battle,
Kilpatrick committed the serious error of ordering
Farnsworth to charge a large body of Confederate infantry who held a strong position, protected by stone walls.
Farnsworth's men, led by the First Vermont, leaping their horses over the intervening walls and fences, made a gallant but useless attack;
Farnsworth was killed, and the regiment lost 13 killed, 25 wounded, and 27 missing. The First Vermont was one of the best mounted regiments in the service.
In addition to the actions mentioned in the above list, in which it lost men killed or mortally wounded, it participated in as many more, in which it sustained losses in wounded or prisoners.
