This regiment has been actively engaged during the year in Western Tennessee and Northern Mississippi. Some of the principal battles and skirmishes in which the regiment has participated since November 1^st, 1862, occurred at Hudsonville, Nov. 14, 1862; Holly Springs, Nov. 19^th; Lumkkin’s Mills, Nov. 30^th; Oxford, Dec. 2d; Coffeeville, Dec. 5^th; Brownsville, January 14^th, 1863; Clifton, Feb’y 20^th; Panola, July 20^th; Grenada, Aug. 14^th; Byhalia, Oct. 12^th, and Wyatt’s Ford, Tallahatchie River, Oct. 13^th, 1863. In addition to these principal engagements, the regiment has participated in a large number of skirmishes of minor importance. In the affair at Grenade, the Third was in the advance. It gained possession of the town after a sharp engagement, and immediately commenced the destruction of the enemy’s machinery and rolling stock, accumulated at this point. Over sixty locomotives, and more than four hundred cars were destroyed. At Byhalia and Wyatt’s Ford, the regiment was warmly engaged. In these actions, the enemy was completely routed, with large loss. The Third Cavalry aided largely in driving the notorious rebels, Richardson, Dawson and Cushman from West Tennessee, together with numerous bands of guerrillas that infested that section, and who were destroyed or dispersed by it. "Since November 1t, 1862, the regiment has captured ab aggregate of 1,100 prisoners, nearly 50 of whom were commissioned officers, making the number of 2,100 prisoners taken from the enemy by the Third, since it went into the field." "During the year, the regiment has marched a distance of 10,800 miles, exxclusive of marches by separate companies and detachments." It is armed with Colt’s five-shooting rifles and revolvers. A light battery of 12-pound howitzers, commanded by one of the officers of the Third, is attached to the regiment. During November and December, 1863, this regiment was almost constantly engaged in scouting and in various expeditions through Northern Mississippi and Western Tennessee, visiting most of the important places in that section. It had frequent encounters with the enemy’s forces under Generals Forrest and Chalmers. Engagements and skirmishes in which the regiment participated, occurred at Ripley, Miss., November 29^th, Orizaba, Miss., November 30^th, Ellistown, Miss., December 3d, Purdy, Tenn., December 22d and Jack’s Creek, Tenn., December 24^th. During the period mentioned the regiment is reported to have marched over one thousand miles. On the 1^st of January, 1864, the Third arrived at LaGrange, Tenn., where it commenced building winter quarters. On the 19^th January, the required number re-enlisted, and on the 27^th were mustered in as veteran volunteers. On the 29^th the regiment left LaGrange for Michigan, arriving at Detroit on the 7^th of February. The regiment rendezvoused at Kalamazoo at the expiration of its furlough of thirty days, where it was joined by a large number of recruits. Leaving Kalamazoo, it proceeded to St. Louis, Mo. It remained there nearly two months awaiting the arrival of horses, arms and equipments. During the greater portion of this time it was employed on provost duty in the city. Although still dismounted, the regiment left St. Louis on the 18^th of May, and proceeded to Little Rock, Ark., where it arrived on the 24^th and reported to Maj. Gen. Steele. It was mounted on the 1sst August, and soon thereafter became engaged in scouting through the State. It assisted in driving the rebel General Shelby beyond the Arkansas River, in dispersing the bands of guerrillas that infested the country, and captured over 800 head of cattle. The regiment is now armed with the Spencer repeating carbine, and on the 1^st of November, 1864, was stationed at Brownsville, Ark.

The regiment is in the 4^th Brigade, Cavalry Division, 7^th Corps. John K. Mizner, Colonel, March 7, 1862.

THIRD CAVALRY

During the months of November, 1864, and February, 1865, this regiment constituted the garrison of the post at Brownsville Station, on the Memphis and Little Rock Railroad, and was also occupied in scouting along the line of that road, making several expeditions as far south as Arkansas Post, on the Arkansas river, collecting large droves of cattle, and thereby furnishing nearly all the beef required for the supply of the entire army, then serving in the Department of Arkansas. At Brownsville Station the regiment erected a complete set of winter quarters and stables, so neatly and tastefully arranged as to present the appearance of an important town, which attracted so much attention as to result in a change of its name from "Brownstown Station," to "Michigan City." The very active duty of the regiment at that time was so conducive to the health of the men, that 1,008 were reported present for duty, and less than three per cent, were on the sick list. Early in February the regiment was selected to constitute part of a division then being organized for active and important service in early spring, and was assigned to the 1^st Brigade, 1^st Division, 7^th Army Corps, and moved to Brownsville. On the 14^th of March the brigade was transferred from the Department of Arkansas to the Military Division of West Mississippi, to join the troops Major General Canby, designed to operate against Mobile, and the regiment proceeded by steamer to New Orleans, arriving at Carrolton, La., March 23d, and embarked for Mobile early in April. After the fall of Mobile, it was employed on outpost duty until the surrender of the Confederate forces east of the Mississippi river, when the regiment Was selected as the escort of Major General Canby on the occasion of his receiving the formal surrender of the rebel General Taylor and his army. It left Mobile May 8, and marched across the country to Baton Rouge, La., reaching there on the 22d. When Major General Sheridan assumed the command of the Military Division of the Southwest, the regiment was selected and ordered to report to him for duty, and was immediately prepared to join the expedition to Texas, and left Baton Rouge for Shreveport, June 10^th, and commenced its march into Texas from the latter place July 10^th, traversing two-thirds the breadth of that State, arriving on the 2d of August at San Antonio. At that point the regiment was stationed, performing garrison duty and employed in the necessary, scouting for the protection of the frontier as far as the Rio Grande, on the Mexican border, and in furnishing escorts for supply trains. The regiment comprised a part of the 1^st Brigade, 1^st Cavalry Division, Military Division of the Gulf, and its head-quarters at San Antonio until February 15^th, 1866, when it was dismounted, mustered out of service, and proceeded, via Victoria, to Indianola, on foot, and thence by steamer to New Orleans and Cairo, where it took rail for Jackson, Mich., arriving there March 10^th, and on the 15^th was paid off and disbanded.

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