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.
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 |
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 |
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 |