The 1st Connecticut Cavalry was organized at West Meriden, Connecticut on November 2, 1861, initially as the 1st Battalion Connecticut Cavalry under the command of Major Judson M. Lyon.
Connecticut | Hartford, Connecticut | New Haven, Connecticut | cavalry | Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma | Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson | Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener | University of Connecticut | Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis | 1st United States Congress | Greenwich, Connecticut | Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts | Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein | William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley | regiment | Bridgeport, Connecticut | Stamford, Connecticut | Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer | Norwalk, Connecticut | George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham | New London, Connecticut | Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford | William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham | Connecticut River | Mystic, Connecticut | Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister | Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell | Norwich, Connecticut | John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon | Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux |