The unit was commanded by Colonel Frederick Nash Ogden.

[2] The regiment was organized in January 1865 in Mississippi, under the command of Colonel Ogden.

During that battle, then-Major Ogden had served in the 8th Louisiana Heavy Artillery Battalion from March 29-July 3, 1863.

Because of their familiarity with the countryside these two new companies, G and H, and possibly one or more of the others, operated along the lower Amite River and near the Mississippi River south of Baton Rouge, Louisiana until about April, 1865.

The other companies participated in the marches and engagements of Colonel John Scott's cavalry brigade in northern and central Mississippi.