37th Virginia Cavalry Battalion

Confederate Regiments & Batteries * Virginia

 

1862
August 2

Created with four companies as Dunn’s Partisan Rangers under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Ambrose C. Dunn and Major J.R. Claiborne.

Company A – Captain George T. Williams – Franklin County
Company B – Captain A. C. Earle – Pickens County, South Carolina
Company C – Captain William Cabell Reeves Tapscott
Company D – Captain Louis W. Bourn – Grayson and Carroll County, Virginia and Surry County, North Carolina
October 1 Company E (Captain Edgar C. Phelps) was added.
October 26 Company F (Captain Meredith T. Norman) was added.
November Converted to regular cavalry and designated 37th Virginia Cavalry Battalion.
1863
January 8 Company H (Captain William H. Payne) was added
February 6 Company G (Captain Edward T. Bridges) was added
April 1 Company I (Captain Ezekiel Young) was added
April 20-May 21
Jones’s and Imboden’s West Virginia Raid
May Assigned to Cavalry Brigade, Department of Western Virginia
May-July Assigned to Jenkins’s Brigade, Cavalry Division, Army of Northern Virginia
June Company K (Captain Crocket C. Pack) transferred from the 21st Virginia Cavalry Regiment
June 29-July 4 
Expedition to Beverly
August 26-27 White Sulphur Springs
October-January Assigned to Jones’s Cavalry Brigade, Ransom’s Division, Department of Western Virginia and East Tennessee 
November 
Siege of Knoxville 
November 6  Rogersville, Tennessee 
1864
January 3 Jonesville, Virginia
February 22 Gibson’s and Wyerman’s Mills, Indian Creek, Virginia
March-April Assigned to Jones’s Brigade, Jones’s Division, Cavalry Corps, Department of East Tennessee. The battalion mustered 300 effectives.
April-May Assigned to Jones’s Brigade, Cavalry, Department of East Tennessee
May-June Assigned to Cavalry Brigade, Department of Southwestern Virginia and East Tennessee
June 5
Battle of Piedmont
June
Lynchburg Campaign

Assigned to McCausland’s Brigade, Lomax’s Cavalry Division, Army of the Valley
July 9
Battle of Monocacy
July 30
Burning of Chambersburg
September 19
Third Battle of Winchester
September 22
Battle of Fisher’s Hill
October Assigned to B.T. Johnson’s Brigade, Lomax’s Cavalry Division, Army of the Valley
October 19
Battle of Cedar Creek
October-November Assigned to McCausland’s Brigade, Lomax’s Cavalry Division, Army of the Valley
November-April Assigned to Jackson’s Brigade, Lomax’s Cavalry Division, Army of the Valley
1865
April The battalion disbanded