2nd Cav Report Col. J. M. Shoonmaker March 30th 1865 NR

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No Reserve. This form is a consolidated morning report for the First Brigade 2nd Cav. Div, DWVa, under the command of Medal of Honor winner Col. J. M. Shoonmaker. The form measures 31" x 10.50" and is folded in 4th vertically and in 3rd horizontally, good condition with only minor tears at some of the folded areas. Legible and clean. If you print the photos out, you should be able to read it in it's entirety. I do not know if the signature is actually of Col. Schoonmaker or an Aide, as I understand that Aides often signed in lieu of Commanding Officers. It is interesting...and shows that the more things change, the more they stay the same, as he lists that they lost some men due to lack of horses, not having Arms & Equipment, or because of the lack of serviceable horses, which in the Cavalry, seems like a "must".The following Source: Slease, William, Rev. Fourteenth Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry in the Civil War, 1815. The Fourteenth Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry whose roster and historyare brieflyrecorded in the following pages was recruited in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, by authority of Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War and Andrew G. Curtin, Governor of Pennsylvania, during September, October, and November 1862, by James Schoonmaker, a Lieutenant of the First Maryland Cavalry assisted by William Blakely, John M. Dailey, Shadrack Foley, Thomas Gibson and others, whose names appear in the pages of this history.James M. Schoonmaker, a Pittsburgh boy eighteen years of age, enlisted as a private in Captain Patterson's Union Cavalry of Pittsburgh in May, 1861. He was elected a corporal before the company left Pittsburgh for the seat of the war. At Washington, D. C. the company was mounted, equipped, armed and order to Williamsport, Maryland, to guard the fords of the Potomac River t, and at Cherry Run, and later ordered to Hancock, Md. , Corporal Schoonmaker was promoted to Sergeant. In December the company was ordered to Baltimore, and consolidated with a number of other independent companies and organized into the First Maryland Regiment of Cavalry. In the organization Captain Patterson's Company became Company G, and Sergeant Schoonmaker was promoted to Sergeant Major of the regiment. The following spring the regiment was ordered to the Shenandoah Valley to report to Major-General Banks, who had been defeated by Stonewall Jackson at Winchester, Virginia, and driven across the Potomac River into Maryland. Later this regiment was ordered to the Luray Valley and assigned to General Pope's army. It was engaged in the battle of Cedar Mountain and for bravery in the battle Schoonmaker was commissioned Second Lieutenant of Company A. In August 1862, Lieutenant Schoonmaker was order to Washington to report to Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War, who ordered him to report to Governor Curtin, who authorized him to proceed to Pittsburgh and organize an independent Battalion of Cavalry. In August he opened a recruiting office in Pittsburgh. Soon the quota for a battalion was secured and report to Governor Curtin. Then both the Governor and Secretary of War authorized him to recruit a full regiment of twelve companies. Recruiting continued through September and October so that in November enough boys and men had enlisted to form a full regiment of twelve companies. These were mobilized in camps Howe and Montgomery located on the sites of Memorial Hall, Schenley Hotel, and Carnegie Library. Governor Curtin authorized Lieutenant Schoonmaker to organize his men into a regiment to be known as the Fourteenth Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry. The Fourteenth Pa. Cavalry was mustered into the service of the United States November 23rd, 1862. Lieutenant James M. Schoonmaker was elected Lieutenant Colonel; Thomas Gibson was chosen Major of the First Battalion; Shadrack Foley, Major of the Second; and John M. Daily, Major of the Third Battalion.The regime Colonel, J. M. Schoonmaker when elected Colonel, was only twenty years and four months old. In a little more than a year after taking his regiment... read more

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