The Civil War in the East

3rd Ohio Independent Cavalry Company

 

The 3rd Ohio Independent Cavalry Company lost 5 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 10 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.

 

1861

July 4

Organized at Cincinnati, Ohio. Ordered to the Kanawha Valley, W. Va. and attached to Cox's Kanawha Brigade

October

Attached to District of the Kanawha, W. Va.

September 16

Action at Princeton

October 3

Greenbrier River

October 19-November 16

Operations in the Kanawha Valley and New River Region

October 19-21

New River

October

Moved to Gauley and duty there

1862

March

Attached to Kanawha Division, West Virginia

May 10

Advance on Virginia & Tennessee Railroad

May-August

At Flat Top Mountain

August 15-24

Moved to Washington, D.C. and attached to the Kanawha Division, 9th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac

September 6-24

Maryland Campaign

September 12

Frederick City, Md.

September 14

South Mountain

September 16-17

Battle of Antietam

October 8

March to Clear Springs

October 9-November 17

To Hancock and to the Kanawha Valley

October

Duty in the Kanawha Valley attached to Kanawha Division, District West Virginia, Dept. Ohio

1863

March

Attached to Averill's 4th Separate Brigade, 8th Corps, Middle Dept.

April 20-May 14

Operations against Imboden's Raid in West Virginia

May to July

At Buckhannon, Bulltown, Clarksburg, Parkersburg and Weston

June

Attached to Averill's 4th Separate Brigade, Dept. of West Virginia

July 2-7

Moved to Beverly

July 2-3

Beverly

July-November

Duty at Beverly

July 16

Shanghai

July 18-19

Martinsburg

August 5-31

Averill's Raid through Hardy, Pendleton, Highland, Bath, Greenbrier and Pocahontas Counties

August 25-26

Rocky Gap, near White Sulphur Springs

November 1-17

Averill's Raid from Beverly to Lewisburg and the Virginia & Tennessee Railroad

November 6

Droop Mountain

December 8-25

Averill's Raid from New Creek to Salem and the Virginia & Tennessee Railroad

December 16

Descent on Salem

December 19

Jackson River, near Covington

December

Duty at Beverly. Attached to 2nd Brigade, 4th Division, West Virginia

1864

April

At Harper's Ferry and on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. Attached to Kelly's Command, Reserve Division, West Virginia

1865

April

Attached to 2nd Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, West Virginia

May 22

Mustered out