8th New York Cavalry Regiment

[1] The regiment served at various times in the defense of the national capital in Washington D.C., in the Department of the Shenandoah, in the Middle Department, and in the Army of the Potomac.

On June 27, 1865, when the regiment mustered out, it was commanded by Colonel Edmund Mann Pope.

Major Hartwell B. Compson, Second Lieutenant Andrew Kuder, Second Lieutenant Robert Niven, Sergeant James Congdon, Sergeant Charles A. Goheen, Sergeant Daniel Kelly, and Corporal Henry H. Bickford all received the Medal of Honor for their actions during the Battle of Waynesboro, Virginia on March 2, 1865.

Read received the Medal of Honor for his actions during the Battle of Appomattox Station on April 8, 1865.

This article about a specific military unit of the American Civil War is a stub.

A monument to the 8th New York Volunteer Cavalry at Gettysburg National Military Park , the site of the Battle of Gettysburg , the bloodiest and possibly most influential American Civil War battle