3rd Regiment Iowa Volunteer Cavalry
- 3rd Regiment Iowa Volunteer Cavalry
Infobox Military Unit
unit_name= 3rd Regiment Iowa Volunteer Cavalry
caption=Iowa state flag
dates= August 30, 1861 to August 9, 1865
country= United States
allegiance= Union
branch= Cavalry
equipment=
battles= Battle of Pea Ridge
Siege of Vicksburg
The 3rd Regiment Iowa Volunteer Cavalry was an cavalry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
ervice
The 3rd Iowa Cavalry was organized at Keokuk, Iowa and mustered in for three years of Federal service between August 30, and [September 14] , 1862.
The regiment was mustered out of Federal service on August 9, 1865.
Total strength and casualties
A total of 2165 men served in the 3rd Iowa at one time or another during its existence. [http://iagenweb.org/civilwar/books/logan/mil603.htm Iowa Genweb Iowa in the Civil War Project after Logan, Guy E., Roster and Record of Iowa Troops In the Rebellion, Vol. 1] It suffered 5 officers and 79 enlistedmen who were killed in action or who died of their wounds and 4 officers and 230 enlistedmen who died of disease, for a total of 318 fatalities. [http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/uniacav.htm#3rdcav 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 Cyrus Bussey
*Colonel Henry C. Caldwell
*Colonel John W. Noble [Iowa Genweb Iowa in the Civil War Project after Logan, Guy E., Roster and Record of Iowa Troops In the Rebellion, Vol. 1]
ee also
*List of Iowa Civil War Units
*Iowa in the American Civil War
Notes
References
* [http://www.civilwararchive.com/unionia.htm The Civil War Archive]
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