Cage’s Battalion Volunteer Cavalry
[also called Miles’ Legion Battalion Cavalry; 10th Battalion Cavalry; later part of 14th Confederate Regiment Cavalry]
From Sifakis, Compendium of C.S. Armies: Louisiana, 57-58:
as Miles’ Legion Battalion Cavalry
Organization: Organized with three, formerly independent, companies in mid-May 1863. Became Companies E, D, and G, respectively, 14th Confederate Cavalry Regiment on September 14, 1863. However, these companies tended to serve separately from the rest of the regiment. [NOTE: See also Louisiana Miles’ Legion Infantry Battalion; Louisiana Gibson’s Artillery Battery; and Louisiana 2nd Siege Artillery Battery.]
First Commander: John B. Cage, MAJ [acting]
Field Officer: James T. Coleman, MAJ
Assignments: Department #1 (May-Jun 62); Department of Southern Mississippi and East Louisiana (Jun-Jul 62); 1st Sub-district, District of the Mississippi, Department #2 (Jul-Oct 62); Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana (Oct 62); 3rd Military District, Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana (Oct 62); Maxey’s Brigade, 3rd Military District, Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana (Dec 62-Feb 63); Miles’ Brigade, 3rd Military District, Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana (Mar 63); Cavalry, 3rd District, Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana (Mar-Sep 63); Logan’s Cavalry Brigade, Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana (Sep 63)
Battles: Bayou Manchac, Amite River [one company] (March 26, 1863); Port Hudson Siege (May-July 1863); Grierson’s Raid (April 17-May 2, 1863); Pretty Creek [skirmish] (June 3, 1863); Jackson [skirmish] (August 3, 1863)
From Bergeron, La. Confed. Units, 65-6:
"This temporary organization consisted of three companies assigned at various times to Miles’ Louisiana Legion and is sometimes called Miles’ Legion Cavalry. The battalion is also referred to as the 10th Louisiana Cavalry Battalion, but probably erroneously. John B. Cage, the senior captain, assumed command of the battalion as acting major, probably at Clinton in mid-May, 1863. At that time, the battalion had about 250 men. The battalion operated under Colonel John L. Logan’s command and harassed the rear outposts of General Nathaniel P. Banks’s army as it laid siege to Port Hudson. On June 3, the men participated in a skirmish at Pretty Creek west of Clinton and helped defeat the enemy force commanded by Colonel Benjamin Grierson. After the surrender of Port Hudson, Logan’s cavalry fell back to Crystal Springs, Mississippi. The battalion returned to eastern Louisiana and fought in a skirmish at Jackson on August 3. On September 14, 1863, the battalion was consolidated with six Mississippi companies and another Louisiana company to form the 14th Confederate Cavalry Regiment."
[no CSRC rolls]
ROSTER
Company B (New River Rangers, Gonzales’s) [later Company A, Ogden’s Regiment Cavalry]
Ascension
(See Company A, Ogden’s Regiment Cavalry for individual records)