3rd Regiment Illinois Volunteer Cavalry
- 3rd Regiment Illinois Volunteer Cavalry
Infobox Military Unit
unit_name= 3rd Regiment Illinois Volunteer Cavalry
caption=Illinois flag
dates= August 27, 1861 to October 18, 1865
country= United States
allegiance= Union
branch= Cavalry
equipment=
battles= Battle of Pea Ridge
Battle of Port Gibson
Battle of Champion's Hill
Siege of Vicksburg
Battle of Nashville
The 3rd Regiment Illinois Volunteer Cavalry was a cavalry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
ervice
The 3rd Illinois Cavalry was mustered into service at Camp Butler, Illinois on August 27, 1861.
The regiment was mustered out on October 18, 1865.
Total strength and casualties
The regiment suffered 8 officers and 50 enlistedmen who were killed in action or who died of their wounds and 3 officers and 173 enlistedmen who died of disease, for a total of 234 fatalities. [http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unilcav1.htm#3rd The Civil War Archive website after Dyer, Frederick Henry. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. 3 vols. New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1959.]
Commanders
*Colonel Eugene A. Carr - promoted to brigadier general March 7, 1862
*Colonel Lafayette McCrillis - mustered out September 5, 1864 [http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilcivilw/f&s/cav003-fs.htm Illinois in the Civil War website after Illinois Adjutant General's muster rolls ]
ee also
*List of Illinois Civil War Units
*Illinois in the American Civil War
Notes
References
* [http://www.civilwararchive.com/unionil.htm The Civil War Archive]
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