The 2nd Kentucky Cavalry Regiment was organized at Camp Joe Holt and Muldraugh's Hill, Kentucky and mustered in for a three-year enlistment on September 9, 1861, under the command of Colonel Buckner Board.
The regiment was attached to Rousseau's Brigade, McCook's Command, Army of the Ohio, October 1861 to December 1861.
Unattached Cavalry, I Corps, Army of the Ohio, to November 1862.
Cavalry, 1st Division, Center, XIV Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to January 1863.
2nd Brigade, 2nd Cavalry Division, Army of the Cumberland, to April 1864.
2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, Cavalry Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to October 1864.
At Bacon Creek and Green River, Kentucky, until February 1862.
Buell's Campaign in northern Alabama and middle Tennessee June to August.
March to Louisville, Kentucky, in pursuit of Bragg August 21-September 26.
Passage of Cumberland Mountains and Tennessee River, and Chickamauga Campaign August 16-September 22.
Pitt's Cross Roads, Sequatchie Valley, October 2.
Hill's Gap, Thompson's Cove, October 3.
Rousseau's Opelika Raid from Decatur on West Point & Montgomery Railroad July 10–22.
Ten Island Ford, Coosa River, July 14.
McCook's Raid on Atlanta and West Point and Macon & Western Railroad July 27–31.
Lovejoy's Station and Smith's Cross Roads July 29.
Sweetwater and Noyes Creek, near Powder Springs, October 1–3.
Phillips Cross Roads, North Carolina, March 4.
Averysboro, Taylor's Hole Creek, North Carolina, March 16.
Olive, Lexington, and Durham, North Carolina, until July.
Mustered out at Camp Joe Holt, Kentucky, July 9–27, 1865.