The 3rd Massachusetts Cavalry Regiment lost 5 officers and 101 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded and 2 officers and 180 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War. The regiment is honored by a monument in the National Cemetery in Winchester, Virginia.
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June 17 |
Organized as 41st Massachusetts Infantry. Designation changed to 3rd Cavalry. Company A, 33rd Massachusetts Infantry, assigned as Company I, 2nd Battalion, Massachusetts Cavalry, assigned as Companies L and M. Attached to 2nd Brigade, 4th Division, 19th Army Corps, Army of the Gulf, then Cavalry Brigade, Dept. of the Gulf |
June 17-July 9 |
Siege of Port Hudson, La. |
July |
Defenses of New Orleans |
August |
Cavalry Brigade, District of Port Hudson, La., Dept. of the Gulf, and Duty at Port Hudson |
August 3 |
Action at Jackson |
October |
Unattached, Cavalry Division, Dept. of the Gulf |
November 30 |
Plain's Store |
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January 2 |
Ordered to New Orleans, La.; 4th Brigade, Cavalry Division, Dept. of the Gulf; scouting, outpost and patrol duty at Carrollton |
February 29 |
March to Berwick and Brashear City |
March 10-May 22 |
Red River Campaign |
March 14-26 |
Advance from Franklin to Alexandria |
March 29-30 |
Monett's Ferry and Cloutiersville |
March 31 |
Natchitoches |
April 2 |
Crump's Hill, Piney Woods |
April 8 |
Bayou de Paul, Carroll's Mills |
April 8 |
Sabine Cross Roads |
April 9 |
Pleasant Hill |
April 19 |
Natchitoches |
April 23 |
Monett's Bluff, Cane River Crossing |
May 1 |
Hudnot's Plantation and Alexandria |
May 4 |
Mansura |
May 13-20 |
Retreat to Morganza |
May 16 |
Mansura |
May 17 |
Moreauville |
May 18 |
Yellow Bayou |
June 25 |
Dismounted and equipped as Infantry and attached to 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, 19th Army Corps, Dept. of the Gulf |
July 3 |
Moved from Morganza to New Orleans, La. |
July 15-28 |
to Fortress Monroe, Va., and Washington, D.C. and attached to 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, 19th Army Corps, Army of Shenandoah, Middle Military Division |
July 29 |
Moved to Monocacy, Md. |
August 4 |
to Harper's Ferry, W. Va. |
August 7-
November 28 |
Sheridan's Shenandoah Valley Campaign |
September 19 |
Battle of Opequan, Winchester |
September 22 |
Fisher's Hill |
October 19 |
Battle of Cedar Creek |
November 9 |
At Opequan Creek, near Winchester |
December 25 |
Moved to Stephenson's Landing, then to Remount Camp, Pleasant Valley, Md. |
December 27 |
Company L mustered out |
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January 31 |
Company M mustered out |
February 15-24 |
Again mounted and equipped as Cavalry; attached to Reserve Cavalry Brigade, Army of Shenandoah |
March 8 |
Moved to Opequan Creek |
March 16 |
Scout to Front Royal |
April 1 |
Scout to Woodstock, then duty at Cedar Creek, Edinburg, Winchester and Berryville |
April 20 |
Moved to Washington, D.C. and duty at Fall's Church; attached to Defenses of Washington, D.C., 22nd Army Corps |
May 20 |
Old members mustered out |
May 23-24 |
Grand Review |
May 25 |
Duty at Bladensburg and Cloud's Mills |
June 14-20 |
Moved to St. Louis, Mo.; attached to Dept. of Missouri |
June 21-25 |
to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas |
July 21 |
Regiment consolidated to 6 Companies |
July 27-August 16 |
March to Fort Kearney, Neb. |
August 23-28 |
March to Cottonwood Springs, Colo. |
August 29-
September 1 |
to Fort Kearney |
September 8-18 |
to Fort Leavenworth |
September 28 |
Mustered out |
September 29-
October 5 |
Moved to Boston, Mass. |
October 8 |
discharged |
