3rd United States Colored Cavalry

Regimental History and Service Record

Organized from 1st Mississippi Cavalry (African Descent) (U) March 11, 1864. Attached to 1st Brigade, United States Colored Troops, District of Vicksburg, Miss., Dept. of the Tennessee, to April, 1864. Winslow's Cavalry Brigade, District of Vicksburg, to December, 1864. 3rd Brigade, Cavalry Division, District of West Tennessee, to January, 1865. Unattached Cavalry, District of West Tennessee to June, 1865. 1st Brigade, Cavalry Division, District of West Tennessee, to January, 1866.

SERVICE.--Duty at Vicksburg, Miss., and in that District until December, 1864. Action at Roach's Plantation, Miss., March 30. Columbus, Ky., April 11 and 13 (Detachment). Expedition from Haines' Bluff up Yazoo River April 19-23. Near Mechanicsburg April 20.

• May 4-21, 1864 - Expedition from Vicksburg, Mississippi to Yazoo City, Mississippi
• Benton May 7 and 9.
• Yazoo City May 13.
• June 4, 1864 - Skirmish at Vicksburg, Mississippi
• July 2-10, 1864 - Expedition from Vicksburg, Mississippi to Pearl River, Mississippi
• Jackson July 7.
• Utica July 13.
• Grand Gulf July 16.
• Bayou Tensas, La., August 26.
• Expedition from Goodrich Landing to Bayou Macon August 28-31.
• September 21-26, 1864 - Expedition from Vicksburg, Mississippi to Deer Creek, Mississippi
• Near Rolling Fork September 22-23.
• September 29-October 3, 1864 - Expedition from Vicksburg, Mississippi to Rodney and Fayette, Mississippi
• Expedition from Natchez to Woodville October 4-11.
• Fort Adams October 5.
• Woodville October 5-6.
• Operations in Issaqueena and Washington counties October 21-31.
• Steele's Bayou October 23.
• November 6-8, 1864 - Expedition from Vicksburg, Mississippi to Gaines' Landing, Arkansas and Bayou Macon, Louisiana
• Rolling Fork November 11.
• November 23-December 4, 1864 - Expedition from Vicksburg, Mississippi to Yazoo City, Mississippi

Big Black River Bridge November 27. Moved to Memphis, Tenn. Grierson's Expedition from Memphis, Tenn., to destroy Mobile & Ohio Railroad December 21, 1864-January 5, 1865. Franklin Creek December 21-22, 1864. Okolona December 27. Egypt Station December 28. Franklin January 2, 1865. Moved to Memphis from Vicksburg, Miss., January 5-10. Duty there and in District of West Tennessee until April. Expedition from Memphis to Brownsville, Miss., April 23-26. Moved to Vicksburg April 29-May 1 and operating about Natchez for the capture of Jeff Davis May. Operations about Fort Adams May 3-6. Duty in District of West Tennessee and Dept. of Mississippi until January, 1866. Mustered out January 26, 1866.

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Sources

• Dyer, Frederick H. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. The Dyer Publishing Company (Des Moine, 1908). (Pages 784, 786, 787, 788, 789, 1720-1721)