2nd Minnesota Volunteer Cavalry Regiment

Infobox Military Unit
unit_name= 2nd Regiment Minnesota Volunteer Cavalry


caption=Flag of Minnesota
dates= December 5, 1863 to May 4, 1866
country= United States
allegiance= Union
branch= Cavalry
equipment=
colonels_of_the_regiment=
battles= Battle of Killdeer Mountain

The 2nd Minnesota Volunteer Cavalry Regiment was a cavalry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

It was mustered in at Fort Snelling, Minnesota. for three year's service on December 5, 1863, and were mustered out on November 17, 1865, and May 4, 1866. The 2nd Minnesota Cavalry served entirely in Minnesota and the Dakota Territory, guarding the frontier against the Sioux Indians.

Battles and campaigns

*Battle of Tah Kah A Kuty or Killdeer Mountain, July 28, 1864.
*Action at Two Hills, Bad Lands, Little Missouri River, August 8 to 9, 1864.
*Rescue of Fisk's Emigrant train, September 10 to 30,1864.

Colonels

*Colonel Robert N. McLaren

Casualties and total strength

The 2nd Minnesota Cavalry lost and 4 enlistedmen killed in action or died of wounds received in battle and an additional 3 officers and 56 enlistedmen died of disease.Total fatalities were 63. [http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unmncav.htm]

References

cite book
last = Andrews
first = General Christopher Columbus, ed.,
title = Minnesota in the Civil and Indian Wars
publisher = Pioneer Press
date = 1891

cite book
last = Jones
first = Robert Huhn
title = The Civil War in the Northwest
publisher = University of Oklahoma Press
date = 1960

External links

* [http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unmncav.htm The Civil War Archive Website]

ee also

List of Minnesota Civil War Units