New Jersey Civil War Union Cavalry Units

The information in this list of New Jersey Military Units comes from the Civil War Soldiers and Sailors web site (CWSS). This web site can also be searched by the name of a soldier.


 * 1st Regiment, New Jersey Cavalry Organized at Trenton, New Jersey, August 14, 1861, as Halsted's Cavalry. Company F mustered out at Washington, May 25, 1865. The rest of the regiment mustered out at Cloud's Hills, Virginia, July 24, 1865.


 * 2nd Regiment, New Jersey Cavalry Organized at Camp Olden, Trenton, New Jersey, May 27, 1861 Mustered out at Hall's Hill, Virginia, July 11, 1865.


 * 3rd Regiment, New Jersey Cavalry Organized at Camp Bayard, Trenton, New Jersey, and mustered in at different times, starting January 26 through March 24, 1864. Mustered out at Washington D.C. August 1, 1865


 * 5th Regiment, New Jersey Cavalry Organized at Camp Olden, Trenton, New Jersey, and mustered in August 22, 1861. Regiment lost during service 12 Officers and 126 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 85 Enlisted men by disease. Total 223.


 * 7th Regiment, New Jersey Cavalry Organized at Camp Olden, Trenton, New Jersey, and mustered in September 3, 1861. Duty at Washington, D. C., until July. Mustered out July 17, 1865. Non-Veterans mustered out at Trenton October 7, 1864.


 * 8th Regiment, New Jersey Cavalry "Compendium of the War of the Rebellion" by Frederick H. Dyer contains no history for this unit.


 * 12th Regiment, New Jersey Cavalry Organized at Camp Stockton, Woodbury, New Jersey, and mustered in September 4, 1862. Mustered out at Washington, D. C., July 15, 1865.


 * Van Reypen's Unattached Company, New Jersey Cavalry "Compendium of the War of the Rebellion" by Frederick H. Dyer contains no history for this unit.