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United States Regiments & Batteries > Massachusetts > 3rd Massachusetts Cavalry Regiment

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The 3rd Massachusetts 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
June 17	The 3rd Massachusetts Cavalry Regiment was created from troops already stationed in the Department of the Gulf. The 41st Massachusetts Infantry had acquired horses and was serving as mounted infantry. It was redesignated as the 3rd Massachusetts Cavalry Regiment. The Second Massachusetts Cavalry Battalion was assigned as Companies L and M. A third independent company was assigned as “Read’s Company” without a letter designation. The regiment was attached to the 2nd Brigade, 4th Division, 19th Army Corps, Army of the Gulf, then Cavalry Brigade, Department of the Gulf
June 17-July 9	Siege of Port Hudson, Louisiana.
July	Defenses of New Orleans
August	Assigned to Cavalry Brigade, District of Port Hudson, Louisiana, Department of the Gulf, and Duty at Port Hudson
August 3	Action at Jackson
October	Assigned to Cavalry Division, Department of the Gulf.
November 30	Plain’s Store
1864
January 2	Ordered to New Orleans, Louisiana; 4th Brigade, Cavalry Division, Department of the Gulf. Assigned to 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. Attached to 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, 19th Army Corps, Department of the Gulf
July 3	Moved from Morganza to New Orleans, Louisiana.
July 15-28	Moved to Fortress Monroe, Virginia and then to Washington, D.C. Attached to 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, 19th Corps, Army of Shenandoah, Middle Military Division. The regiment continued to operate as dismounted infantry.
July 29	Moved to Monocacy, Maryland.
August 4	to Harper’s Ferry, West Virginia.
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
January 31	Company M mustered out
February 15-24	Remounted 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 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, Missouri. Attached to Department of the Missouri.
June 21-25	To Fort Leavenworth, Kansas
July 21	The regiment consolidated to 6 Companies
July 27-August 16	March to Fort Kearney, Nebraska.
August 23-28	March to Cottonwood Springs, Colorado.
August 29- September 1	Returned to Fort Kearney
September 8-18	Moved to Fort Leavenworth
September 28The	The 3rd Massachusetts Cavalry Regiment was mustered out
September 29- October 5	Moved to Boston, Mass.
October 8	The men were discharged