1st Minnesota Cavalry Regiment

1st Minnesota Cavalry Regiment
1st Minnesota Cavalry Regiment
	The standard 35 star civil war Cavalry guidon.
Active	October 1862 to December 1863
Country	United States
Allegiance	Union
Branch	Cavalry
Nickname(s)	Mounted Rangers; Renville Rangers (Company I only);
Engagements	American Civil War Sibley's Expedition Against the Sioux Battle of Big Mound; Battle of Dead Buffalo Lake; Battle of Stony Lake; ;
Commanders
Colonel	Samuel McPhail
Lieutenant Colonel	William Pfaender
Major	John H. Parker
Major	Soloman (Salmon) A. Buell
Major	Oren Tracy Hayes

The 1st Minnesota Cavalry Regiment, also known as the Mounted Rangers, was a Minnesota USV mounted infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

The companies of the regiment were initially mustered in between October and December 1862 at St. Cloud, St. Peter and Fort Snelling for three month's service which was extended to a year. Thirty to forty men from the Renville Rangers militia volunteered at Fort Snelling when their militia was decommissioned by joining the company raised from Faribault County. The Minnesota Mounted Rangers served entirely in Minnesota and the Dakota Territory in response the hostile Santee Sioux. The men were mustered out between October and December 1863.