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Volunteer Cavalry was consolidated into a four-company battalion including Companies A, B, C, and D that
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It again returned to the First
Brigade of the Third Division of the Cavalry Corps on August 12. Davies was promoted to brigadier general on September 16, leaving regimental Lieutenant Colonel Otto Harhaus, promoted to colonel on April 1, 1864, in command. During the
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December 23, which he led for the rest of the war. The 2nd New York remained with the Cavalry Corps until being transferred to serve with the cavalry of the
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continued in service. Eight new companies, recruited for a one year term of service, expanded the 2nd New York
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was promoted to colonel in his stead three days later. The regiment was transferred to the Second
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to recruit the regiment, unofficially known as the Harris Light
Cavalry, on July, 25, 1861. Its twelve companies were recruited as follows:
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of the Army of the Potomac on February 11, 1863, detaching a battalion to the First Brigade of the First Division of the
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railroad bridges. After Kilpatrick was promoted to brigadier general on June 13, Lieutenant Colonel
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Song of the Harris Light Cavalry, 1863 at Library of Congress
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