Frontier Cavalry

The Frontier Cavalry was a volunteer cavalry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It was organized under special authority of the War Department, to serve on the northern frontier of New England for one year. It was created in response to the St. Albans raid, which occurred on October 19, 1864.

From October 1864 until January 1865, the northern frontier was guarded by a provisional force consisting, at least in Vermont, of recently returned veterans, militia, cadets from Norwich University, and other volunteers. These groups were replaced by a regiment of cavalry and members of the Veteran Reserve Corps.

The regiment of cavalry (formally known as the 26th New York Cavalry) consisted of seven companies from New York, three from Massachusetts, and two from Vermont, Companies F and M. The Vermont companies were stationed at Burlington and then St. Albans, and the others along the Canada–US border in New York.

The Field and Staff Officers of the regiment included two Vermonters, Maj. Josiah Grout, Jr., of Barton, late of the 1st Vermont Cavalry, and Regimental Commissary Elisha May, of Concord, late of the 2nd Vermont Infantry.

The 1st Vermont Company of Frontier Cavalry, Company M, was recruited in Rutland, on January 4, 1865, and left for Burlington the next day. The subsequently moved to St. Albans on February 24, and returned to Burlington on June 27 for discharge.

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