6th Cavalry Regiment (United States) - Lineage

Lineage

• Constituted 4 May 1861 in the Regular Army as the 3d Cavalry Regiment
• Regiment (except Companies A & B) organized 18 June 1861 at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
• Company A organized June–October 1861 in Maryland and the District of Columbia
• Redesignated 3 August 1861 as the 6th Cavalry Regiment
• Company B organized 16 August 1861 at Camp Scott, Pennsylvania
• Cavalry companies officially redesignated as troops in 1883.
• Assigned 15 August 1927 to the 3d Cavalry Division, and stationed at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia.
• A Troop consolidated 14 October 1929 with Troop D, 6th Cavalry Regiment, (organized in 1861) and consolidated unit designated as Troop A, 6th Cavalry Regiment.
• Relieved 1 December 1939 from assignment to the 3d Cavalry Division, and moved by Road March to Fort Benning, Georgia on 11 April 1940.
• Regiment moved from Fort Benning by road march 5 May 1940 to Alexandria, Louisiana, and arrived on 8 May 1940.
• Regiment departed Alexandria, Louisiana on 27 May 1940 via Road March, and arrived at Fort Oglethorpe 30 May 1940.
• Regiment retraced their steps to Alexandria, Louisiana on 13 August 1940, and arrived 21 August 1940.
• Regiment Road Marched to Ragley, Louisiana on 26 July 1941, and arrived on 1 October 1941.
• Regiment Road Marched to Chester, South Carolina on 6 November 1941, and arrived 1 December 1941. Regiment immediately returned to Fort Oglethorpe.
• Regiment performed its last road march as a horse cavalry unit when it left Fort Oglethorpe, and moved to Camp Blanding, Florida on 18 February 1942.
• Regiment reorganized and redesignated 21 July 1942 as the 6th Cavalry Regiment, Mechanized. Troop B reorganized and redesignated as Troop E, 6th Cavalry, Mechanized.
• Regiment moved by road march to Fort Jackson on 2 November 1942.
• Regiment moved again by road march to Fort Oglethorpe on 16 April 1943.
• Regiment participated in Maneuvers at Lebanon, Tennessee from 18 April 1943 to 20 June 1943, and then road marched to Fort Jackson.
• Regiment Staged at Camp Shanks, New York from 8 October 1943 until 12 October 1943, when they deployed from the New York Port of Embarkation for England.
• Regiment arrived in Tanderagee, Northern Ireland on 18 October 1943, where they prepared to reorganize for their D-Day sssignment.
• Regiment broken up 1 January 1944 and its elements reorganized and redesignated as follows: