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Pennsylvania Volunteers
Independent Battalion Cavalry
Organized at Pittsburg, Pa., June and July, 1863.
Mustered out December 29, 1863.
Bell’s Independent Company Militia Cavalry
Organized at Altoona June 30, 1863.
Mustered out August 9, 1863.
Brown’s Independent Company Militia Cavalry
Organized at Harrisburg June 19, 1863.
Mustered out August 1, 1863.
Comley’s Independent Company Militia Cavalry
Organized at Harrisburg July 19, 1863.
Mustered out July 30, 1863.
Dick’s Independent Company Militia Cavalry
Organized at Pittsburg July 9, 1863.
Mustered out October 5, 1863.
Hammill’s Independent Company Militia Cavalry
Organized at Philadelphia July 2, 1863.
Mustered out September 16, 1863.
Hebble’s Independent Company Cavalry
Organized at Lancaster July 19, 1864.
Mustered out October 29, 1864.
Jones’ Independent Company Militia Cavalry
Organized at Harrisburg June 21, 1863.
Mustered out August 12, 1863.
Lambert’s Independent Cavalry Company.
Organized at Harrisburg August 12, 1864.
Mustered out November 25, 1864.
Morehead Cavalry Company.
Organized at Allegheny City August 19, 1861.
Attached to 1st Virginia Union Cavalry and
transferred to 1st Maryland Cavalry as Company “L” January, 1862.
Murray’s Independent Company Militia Cavalry
Organized at Harrisburg June 18, 1863.
Mustered out August 11, 1863.
Myers’ Independent Company Militia Cavalry
Organized at Harrisburg June 20, 1863.
Mustered out July 31, 1863.
Negley’s Body Guard.
Organized at Philadelphia January 21, 1862.
Mustered out January 26, 1862.
Harry L. Vancleve, Captain
William F. Trewin, 1st Lieutenant
Reading City Troop.
Organized at Reading July 30, 1861.
Transferred to 1st Pennsylvania Cavalry as Company “L” November, 1861.
John C. A. Hoffeditz, Captain
William A. Sands, 1st Lieutenant
Henry L. Gaul, 2d Lieutenant
Sanno’s Independent Company Cavalry
Organized at Harrisburg July 15, 1864.
Mustered out October 29, 1864.
Stroud’s Independent Company Cavalry
Railroad troops.
Organized at Philadelphia July 15, 1864.
Mustered out October 31, 1864.
Union Cavalry Company.
Organized at Allegheny City April 5, 1861.
Entered 1st Virginia Union Cavalry and
transferred to 1st Maryland Cavalry as Company “G” January, 1862.
Warren’s Independent Company Cavalry
Organized at Harrisburg August 17, 1864.
Mustered out November 30, 1864.
Weaver’s Independent Company Cavalry
Organized at Chambersburg September, 1864.
Mustered out August 4, 1865.
Joseph K. Weaver, Captain
Anthony Ewing, 1st Lieutenant
John W. Ellinger, 2d Lieutenant
Sources:
Dyer, Frederick H. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion Compiled and Arranged from Official Records of the Federal and Confederate Armies, Reports of he Adjutant Generals of the Several States, the Army Registers, and Other Reliable Documents and Sources. Des Moines, Iowa: The Dyer Publishing Company, 1908.
Official Army Register of the Volunteer Force of the U. S. Army for the years 1861, 1862, 1863, 1864, and 1865, Part III. Published by order of the Secretary of War, in Compliance with the Joint Resolution of the Senate and House of Representatives, Approved March 9, 1865, Adjutant General’s Office, Washington, DC, April 31, 1865.