18th Pennsylvania Cavalry

The 18th Pennsylvania Cavalry served in the 1st Brigade, 3d Division, Cavalry Corps, Army of the Potomac. The regiment participated in the cavalry fights at Hanover on June 30th and Hunterstown on July 2nd, 1863. On July 3d it occupied this position and in the afternoon charged with the brigade upon the enemy's infantry behind the stone wall to the north of this point on the outer edge of the woods. Present at Gettysburg were 599 officers and men; 2 men were killed, 4 men were wounded, and 8 men were captured or missing. Mustered in August and December 1862, it was consolidated with the 22nd Pennsylvania Cavalry on July 24th, 1865, forming the 3d Provisional Pennsylvania Cavalry, which was mustered out October 31st, 1865. It participated with the armies of the Potomac and Shenandoah in 51 battles, and out of a total enrollment of 2020, lost in killed, died, wounded and prisoners 688, of whom 131 died in the hands of the enemy while prisoners of war.

Freedom Township, Pennsylvania · United States