The 6th Cavalry is a historical organization within the United
States Army that began as a regiment in the American Civil War ;
It currently is organized into aviation squadrons that are
assigned to several different combat aviation brigades. The 6th
U.S. Cavalry was organized in August 1861, where it took to the
fields of the Eastern Theater as part of the Union Army of the
Potomac. The regiment took part in sixteen campaigns, among them
the Maryland Campaign, Gettysburg Campaign, Overland Campaign
and the Appomattox Campaign. From 1865 to 1871 during
Reconstruction, the regiment was stationed in Texas (see Fifth
Military District for reports of soldiers of the 6th Cavalry
killed and wounded in various incidents of 1867–68). It also
took part in the Indian Wars and the Johnson County War. The
"Fighting Sixth" sailed to Cuba during the Spanish-American War
and took part in the battle for San Juan Hill alongside of Teddy
Roosevelt's "Rough Riders." (In 1900 the 6th was in the Boxer
Rebellion). An 1887 letter f