2nd Veteran Cavalry Regiment
Civil War
Empire Light Cavalry

History
The following is taken from New York in the War of the Rebellion, 3rd ed. Frederick Phisterer. Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1912.

Left the State in detachments: October to December 1863
Mustered out: November 8, 1865

June 23, 1863, Col. Morgan H. Chrysler received authority to reorganize the 30th N. Y. Volunteer Infantry, then discharged by reason of the expiration of its term of service, as a regiment of cavalry —the Empire Light Cavalry. July 20, 1863, this designation was changed to 2d Regiment Veteran Cavalry. The regiment was organized at Saratoga Springs, and the companies were mustered in the service of the United States for three years, at Saratoga: A August 15; B and F August 26; C September 9; D and E September 8; G and H October 10 and 16, respectively; I and K November 10; L December 3, 1865; and at the Cavalry Depot, D. C.; Company M December 30, 1863.

They were recruited principally: A at Glens Falls; B at Albany, Amsterdam and Sche-nectady; C at Saratoga; D at Saratoga, Salem, Schroon, Shushan and Whitehall; E at Glens Falls, Albany, Port Henry and Troy; F at Saratoga and Whitehall; G at Saratoga, Glens Falls, Addison, Bath and Schenectady; H at Hoosick Falls, Malone and Plattsburg; I at Albany, Chatham, Saratoga and Valatie; K at Glenville, Granville, Moriah, Johns-burgh, Queensbury, Saratoga and Stony Creek; L at Saratoga, Granville, Chesterfield, Jay,. Fort Ann, Northumberland and Wilton; and M at New York city.

The regiment left the State in detachments, Companies A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H in October; I and K in November; L and M in December, 1863, and served in the Department of Washington, D. C, 22d Corps; in the Department of the Gulf from February 16, 1864, in 5th Cavalry Brigade, 19th Corps; in the 4th Cavalry Brigade, 19th Corps, from June, 1864; in the 1st Cavalry Brigade, 19th Corps, from September, 1864; in the Separate Brigade, Cavalry of the Reserve, 19th Corps, from November, 1864; in the 1st Brigade, Cavalry Division, Department Gulf, from March, 1865; and commanded by Colonel Chrysler, was honorably discharged and mustered out, November 8, 1865, at Talladega, Ala.

During its service it lost by death, killed in action, 2 officers, 10 enlisted men; of wounds received in action, 3 officers, 20 enlisted men; of disease and other causes, 3 officers, 215 enlisted men; total, 8 officers, 245 enlisted men; aggregate, 253; of whom 7 enlisted men died in the hands of the enemy. The large number of men reported drowned is owing to the loss at the foundering of the steamer North America off the coast of Florida December 22, 1864.

Battles and Casualties Table from Phisterer

2nd Regiment Veteran Cavalry Guidon

Unit Roster

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