The regiment was commanded by Colonel Robert Ramsay Livingston.
3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, VII Corps, Department of Arkansas, to October 1864.
4th Brigade, Cavalry Division, VII Corps, to October 1864.
[citation needed] The 1st Nebraska Cavalry mustered out of service on July 1, 1866.
And so it happened that the "First Nebraska Veteran Volunteer Cavalry" was drawn from the field, and the Confederacy, and sent out to fight Indians in the Northwest.