2d Cavalry Regiment
& the 2d Cavalry Association
The oldest continuously serving cavalry regiment in the U.S. Army. The first and oldest unit-based Veteran organization in the United States. 190 years. Dragoons to Strykers.
Any Dragoon, past or present, should be able to look at any day and know what happened in the Regiment's history on that day. This calendar is that record — seeded with open-source history and extended by the community.
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The Regiment
Constituted 23 May 1836
The 2d Cavalry Regiment was constituted on 23 May 1836 as the 2nd Regiment of Dragoons, raised by Act of Congress to fight the Second Seminole War. It has fought in every major American conflict since — from the Florida swamps to the Mexican frontier, from Gettysburg to the Argonne, from Normandy to the Fulda Gap, from 73 Easting to the Stryker formations of today.
Today the Regiment is stationed at Rose Barracks, Vilseck, Bavaria — the U.S. Army's only forward-deployed Stryker regiment in Europe.
Toujours Prêt · Always Ready
The Association
The first unit-based Veteran organization in America
Founded in the late 19th century by Civil War–era troopers of the Regiment, the 2d Cavalry Association is the first and oldest Veteran organization in the United States established around a military unit. Its oral-history tradition directly inspired Service Alliance's Veteran Voices platform.
The Association moderates the contributions to this regimental calendar — descendants, border-watch veterans, Dragoon families, and regimental historians all route their submissions through Association editors before publishing.
Campaign Participation Credits & Battle Honors (abridged)
- Mexican War · Palo Alto · Resaca de la Palma · Monterrey · Vera Cruz · Cerro Gordo · Contreras · Churubusco · Chapultepec · Mexico City · Buena Vista
- Civil War · Peninsula · Antietam · Fredericksburg · Chancellorsville · Gettysburg · Wilderness · Spotsylvania · Cold Harbor · Petersburg · Shenandoah 1864 · Appomattox
- Indian Wars · Little Big Horn · Pine Ridge
- World War II · Normandy · Northern France · Rhineland · Ardennes-Alsace · Central Europe
- Southwest Asia · Defense of Saudi Arabia · Liberation & Defense of Kuwait · Cease-Fire
- Iraq · Afghanistan · Atlantic Resolve (Poland & the Baltics, continuing)
Regimental Calendar · On This Day in Dragoon History
Search the 2d Cavalry's 190 years — by day.
Pick any day of the year. See what happened in the Regiment's history on that day — from the 1836 constitution to today's Stryker formation. 74 seeded events across fifteen eras · extended by the community over time.
On This Day in Regimental History
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Be the first Dragoon to add one. Family records, letters, deployment orders, and oral history all count — the Association will review and publish.
Seed dataset drawn from open-source and public-domain references including the U.S. Army Center of Military History's lineage & honors records, K. Jack Bauer's The Mexican War 1846–1848, Gettysburg NMP archives, USAREUR historical records, VII Corps after-action reports, and the 2d Cavalry Association's own archives. Accuracy improves with every community contribution.
This is one Regiment.
The Campaign holds every regiment.
The 2d Cavalry calendar is the first populated lineage in The Campaign. Every U.S. military unit — Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, Space Force, Coast Guard — will have the same instrument for the same purpose: any Veteran, past or present, can see what happened on any day in their unit's history.