Organized in 1922, the brigade spent its entire career with the 62nd Cavalry Division and was disbanded after the United States entered World War II.
The brigade was constituted in the Organized Reserve on 15 October 1921, part of the 62nd Cavalry Division in the Third Corps Area.
[2] The brigade held its inactive training period meetings at the Post Office Building in Baltimore.
Its subordinate regiments provided basic military instruction to civilians under the Citizens' Military Training Camp program at Fort Myer and Fort Belvoir with the assistance of the 3rd Cavalry as an alternate form of training.
After the United States entered World War II, the brigade was disbanded on 30 January 1942 along with the division,[1] after most of its officers were called up for active duty.