ORDER OF BATTLE 
       FOR THE 
CAVALRY DIVISION
OF
BRIG. GEN. JOHN BUFORD
GETTYSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA
JULY 1, 1863

CAVALRY CORPS 
Maj. Gen. Alfred Pleasonton

FIRST DIVISION 
Brig. Gen. John Buford

FIRST BRIGADE 
Col. William Gamble

Unit
Commander
Strength 
KIA 
WIA 
MIA
% Loss
Carbine

8th Ill. Cav. 

Maj. John Beverage
470
1K
5W
1M
02%
Sharps
12th Ill. Cav. 
Col. George Chapman 
233
 4K
10W 
6M 
9% 
Burnside
(4 cos)
3rd Ind. Cav.
""
313
6K
21W
5M
10%
Gallager & Sharps (6 cos)
8th NY Cav
 Lt Col. Wm. Markell
580
2K
22W
16M
7%
Sharps

 

SECOND BRIGADE 
Col. Thomas C. Devin

Unit
Commander
Strength
KIA
WIA
MIA
Loss
Carbine
6th NY Cav
Maj. William Beardsley
218 
0
1
8
4%
Sharps
9th NY Cav
Col. William Sackett 
367
2
2
7
3%
Sharps
17th PA Cav.
 Col. Josiah Kellogg
464
0
0
4
.9%
Merrill & Smith

RESERVE BRIGADE * 
Brig. Gen. Wesley Merritt

Unit
Commander
Strength
KIA
WIA
MIA
Loss
Carbine
6th PA Cav. 
 Maj. James Haseltine
242
3
7
2
5%
Sharps
1st US Cav.
Capt. Richard Lord Capt. Eugene Baker 
362
1
9
5
4%
Sharps
2nd US Cav. 
Capt. Theophilus Rodenbough Capt. George Gordon
407
3
7
7
4%
Sharps
5th US Cav
Capt. Julius Mason 3
306
0
4
1
2%
Sharps
6th US Cav.
 Maj. Samuel Starr 
471
6
28
208
51%
Sharps
Capt. George Cram
Lieut. Louis Carpenter
Lieut. Niclolas Nolan
Capt. Ira Clafin

* Note : Merritt's Brigade was left to guard the roads from Fairfield and Cashtown, PA in the Emmittsburg, MD area, in case the Confederates were in the process of a turning movement via this route that would outflank the AoP's I, XI, and III Corps.
Sources: _The Official Records of the War of the Rebellion_, Series 1, Volume XXVII, Parts 1-3; _Regimental Strengths and Losses at Gettysburg_ by John W. Busey and David G. Martin. _Ready...Aim... Fire!: Small Arms Ammunition in the Battle of Gettysburg_ by Dean Thomas. And War Department historical plaques on the Gettysburg Battlefield. [Copied from materials of the 1994 A.L.B.G. Fall Battlefield Seminar]