United States Regiments & Batteries ** Ohio


The 3rd Ohio Independent Cavalry Company lost 5 enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 10 enlisted men to disease during the Civil War.

1861
July 4 Organized at Cincinnati, Ohio. Ordered to the Kanawha Valley, W. Va. and attached to Cox’s Kanawha Brigade
October Attached to District of the Kanawha, W. Va.
September 16 Action at Princeton
October 3 Greenbrier River
October 19-
November 16

Operations in the Kanawha Valley and New River Region

October 19-21
New River
October Moved to Gauley and duty there
1862
March 11 Attached to Kanawha Division, Mountain Department
May 10 Advance on Virginia & Tennessee Railroad
May-August At Flat Top Mountain
August 15-24 Moved to Washington, D.C. and attached to the Kanawha Division, 9th Army Corps, Army of the Potomac
September 6-24

Maryland Campaign

September 12 Frederick City, Md.
September 14

Battle of South Mountain

September 16-17

Battle of Antietam

October 8 March to Clear Springs
October 9-
November 17
To Hancock and to the Kanawha Valley
October Duty in the Kanawha Valley attached to Kanawha Division, District West Virginia, Dept. Ohio
1863
March Attached to Averill’s 4th Separate Brigade, 8th Corps, Middle Department.
April 20-May 14

Operations against Imboden’s Raid in West Virginia

May to July At Buckhannon, Bulltown, Clarksburg, Parkersburg and Weston
June Attached to Averill’s 4th Separate Brigade, Department of West Virginia
July 2-7 Moved to Beverly
July 2-3 Beverly
July-November Duty at Beverly
July 16 Shanghai
July 18-19 Martinsburg
August 5-31

Averill’s Raid through Hardy, Pendleton, Highland, Bath, Greenbrier and Pocahontas Counties

August 25-26 Rocky Gap, near White Sulphur Springs
November 1-17

Averill’s Raid from Beverly to Lewisburg and the Virginia & Tennessee Railroad

November 6 Droop Mountain
December 8-25

Averill’s Raid from New Creek to Salem and the Virginia & Tennessee Railroad

December 16 Descent on Salem
December 19 Jackson River, near Covington
December Duty at Beverly. Attached to 2nd Brigade, 4th Division, West Virginia
1864
April At Harper’s Ferry and on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. Attached to Kelly’s Command, Reserve Division, West Virginia
1865
April Attached to 2nd Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, West Virginia
May 22 The 3rd Ohio Independent Cavalry Company mustered out