Significant Cavalry Battles and Raids
The following are Civil War battles, campaigns, or separate raids in which cavalry forces played a significant role.
- Battle of Brandy Station — largest predominantly cavalry battle of the war
- Battle of Chancellorsville — ambitious plan for raid in the Confederate rear foiled by George Stoneman's inaction
- Battle of Gaines's Mill — first large cavalry engagement of the war
- Battle of Gettysburg, Third Day cavalry battles — East Cavalry Field and Farnsworth's Charge
- Battle of Franklin — James H. Wilson's repulse of Forrest probably saved the Union army
- Battle of Sayler's Creek — masterful cavalry maneuvers brought Confederates close to surrender in the Appomattox Campaign.
- Battle of Selma — James H. Wilson's massive raid into Alabama in 1865
- Battle of Trevilian Station — largest all-cavalry battle of the war
- Battle of Yellow Tavern — J.E.B. Stuart killed in action by Philip Sheridan's cavalry
- Dahlgren's Raid — unsuccessful Union raid against Richmond
- Gettysburg Campaign — numerous cavalry actions in Robert E. Lee's invasion of Pennsylvania
- Grierson's Raid — long-range raid through Mississippi in conjunction with Ulysses S. Grant's Vicksburg Campaign
- Maryland Campaign — J.E.B. Stuart's second ride around the Union army
- Peninsula Campaign — Stuart's first ride around the Union army
- Price's Raid — Sterling Price's 1864 raid in the Trans-Mississippi Theater
- Streight's Raid — 1863 raid across Alabama in which Col. Abel Streight surrendered 1,500 men to Forrest's 400
- Wilson's Raid — James H. Wilson's 1865 raid through Alabama and Georgia
Read more about this topic: Cavalry In The American Civil War
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