[2] During the Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse the 22nd was considered "green" and Crooks prone to exaggeration (he was eventually placed under arrest by Major General George G. Meade); it reportedly "skedaddled" when hit by the Confederate forces of Armistead L. Long.

Army of the Potomac Provost Marshal Marsena R. Patrick took the disorganized regiment under his wing, but they still had their horses stolen from them by the veteran 3rd Pennsylvania Cavalry.

[4] Crooks and many of his troopers were captured during the First Battle of Ream's Station at the end of the Wilson-Kautz raid, when Wilson's division was largely cut off and surrounded.

[5] During the winter of 1864-5, the regiment was quartered at Camp Russell, where it subsisted in buildings made from the materials of a dismantled African American chapel in nearby Newtown.

[6] Company C's Captain Christopher C. Bruton received the Medal of Honor for the capture of Confederate Lt Gen Jubal Early's headquarters flag during the Battle of Waynesboro in March 1865.