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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 1, Condensed history of regiments., First regiment Massachusetts Cavalry. (search)
part. The 1st and 2d Battalions joined the army of the Potomac in Virginia, Aug. 19, 1862, and the 3d Battalion remained in South Carolina in command of Maj. A. H. Stevens, Jr., three companies being stationed at Beaufort and the other at Hilton Head; here it remained for some months, engaging in picket and patrol duty, with a reconnoissance Oct. 22, 1862, to Pocotaligo, S. C.; and in June, 1863, a detachment on duty at Folly and Morris islands took part in the siege of Fort Sumter. On Aug. 4, 1863, the battalion was permanently detached from the 1st Cavalry and called the Independent Battalion, Mass. Cavalry Vols., and engaged in the expedition to St. John's River, Fla. By special order, dated Feb. 12, 1864, the Independent Battalion became 1st Battalion, 4th Mass. Cavalry, and under this organization was ordered to Virginia in May, 1864, and its subsequent history will be found with the 4th Mass. Cavalry. The 1st and 2d Battalions with the army of the Potomac took part in the mar