18th Pennsylvania Calvary
1st Brigade 3d Division
(front):18th Pennsylvania Calvary
1st Brigade 3d Division
Calvary Corps
Army of the Potomac
(rear):
The regiment participated in the cavalry fights at Hanover June 30th and Hunterstown July 2nd 1863. On July 3d occupied this position and in the afternoon charged with the brigade upon the enemy's infantry behind the stone wall to the north of this point on the outer edge of the woods.
Present at Gettysburg 599 officers and men>
Killed 2 men, wounded 4 men.
Captured or missing 8 men.Mustered in August, December 1862. Consolidated with the 22nd Pennsylvania Calvary, July 24th 1865, forming the 3d Provisional Pennsylvania Calvary, which was mustered out October 31st 1865.
Participated with the armies of the Potomac and Shenandoah in 51 battles, and out of a total enrollment of 2020, lost in killed, died, wounded and prisoners 688, of whom 131 died in the hands of the enemy while prisoners of war.
Marker can be reached from South Confederate Avenue.
Courtesy hmdb.org
