The regiment was recruited, organized, and mustered into the service with 1,244 officers and men in less than three weeks.
The regiment's greatest service came at the Battle of Richmond where along with the 9th Pennsylvania Cavalry, they covered the retreat of the Union Army of Kentucky.
The regiment was attached to 3rd Brigade, Cavalry Division, Army of the Ohio, to November 1862.
2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, XXIII Corps, Army of the Ohio, to August 1863.
Eminence, Kentucky, 1st Division, XXIII Corps, to September 1863.
Moved to Cumberland River and operating against Champ Ferguson until December.