United States Regiments & Batteries > Massachusetts
The 3rd Massachusetts Volunteer 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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1863
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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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1864
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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 |
Third Battle of Winchester (Opequan) |
| 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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1865
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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 |