Across the Continent With the Fifth Cavalry #271709

The Second Regiment of Cavalry was organized by authority of the eighth section of an, act of Congress approved March 3, 1855. The regiment retained this number until August 3, 1861, when, under the operations of an act of Congress of that date, the designation was changed to the Fifth Regiment of Cavalry. The eighth section of the act of Congress of March 1855, reads as follows.