The regiment was attached to 1st Division, XIX Corps, Department of the Gulf, to July 1863.

Ordered to New Orleans, Louisiana, and served duty there until March 1863.

Operations about Monett's Plantation and on Bayou Sara Road May 18–19.

The regiment was first consolidated into a battalion of four companies August 24, 1863, and attached to the 1st Louisiana Cavalry.

It served thus at Camp Hubbard, Thibodeaux, August 29–30 and then ceased to exist on January 14, 1864, when its members were transferred to the 3rd Rhode Island Cavalry.