11th Michigan Volunteer Cavalry Regiment

11th Michigan Volunteer Cavalry Regiment

Infobox Military Unit
unit_name= 11th Regiment Michigan Volunteer Cavalry


caption=Michigan state flag
dates= October 7, 1863 to July 20, 1865
country= United States
allegiance= Union
branch= Cavalry
equipment=
battles=

The 11th Regiment Michigan Volunteer Cavalry was an cavalry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

ervice

The 11th Michigan Cavalry was organized at Grand Rapids, Michigan between October 7 and October 10, 1863. Among its ranks was future Michigan politician and author Elroy M. Avery.

The regiment was consolidated with the 8th Michigan Volunteer Cavalry Regiment on July 20, 1865.

Total strength and casualties

The regiment suffered 4 officers and 24 enlistedmen killed in action or mortally wounded and 114 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 142 fatalities. [http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unmicav.htm#11th The Civil War Archive website after Dyer, Frederick Henry. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. 3 vols. New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1959. Retrieved June 19, 2007.]

Commanders

*Colonel

ee also

*List of Michigan Civil War Units
*Michigan in the American Civil War

Notes

References

* [http://www.civilwararchive.com/unionmi.htm The Civil War Archive]


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