Missouri 3rd Cavalry (Confederate)
9/19/62
Leadership Change - Division - Brigadier General Henry Little
Brigadier GeneralHenry Little
9/19/62
Battle - Iuka - Tishomingo County, Mississippi
Maj. Gen. Sterling Price's Army of the West main column marched into Iuka, Mississippi, on September 14th. Price's superior, Gen. Braxton Bragg, had ordered Price to prevent Maj. Gen. William S. Rosecrans's Army of the Mississippi from moving into Tennessee and reinforcing Nashville. Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, commanding the Army of the Tennessee, feared that Price intended to go north to join Bragg. Grant devised a plan for his left wing commander, Maj. Gen. E.O.C. Ord, to advance on Iuka from the west;…READ MORE
10/3/62
Leadership Change - Brigade - Brigadier General Martin E. Green, and Colonel William H. Moore
Brigadier GeneralMartin E. Green
ColonelWilliam H. Moore
10/3/62
Leadership Change - Division - Brigadier General Louis Hébert, and Brigadier General Martin E. Green
Brigadier GeneralLouis Hébert
Brigadier GeneralMartin E. Green
10/3/62
Leadership Change - Brigade - Colonel William H. Moore
ColonelWilliam H. Moore
10/3/62
Battle - Battle of Corinth - Corinth, Mississippi
Not to be confused with Siege of Corinth. Also known as Second Battle of Corinth.READ MORE
11/4/62
Organized - Missouri 3rd Cavalry - Missouri
11/7/62
Battle - Clark's Mill - Douglas County, Missouri
1/9/63
Battle - Hartville - Wright County, Missouri
5/18/63
Leadership Change - Regiment - Captain Felix Lotspeich
CaptainFelix Lotspeich
5/18/63
Leadership Change - Brigade - Brigadier General Martin E. Green, and Colonel Thomas P. Dockery
Brigadier GeneralMartin E. Green
ColonelThomas P. Dockery
5/18/63
Leadership Change - Division - Major General John S. Bowen
Major GeneralJohn S. Bowen
5/18/63
Leadership Change - Brigade - Brigadier General Martin E. Green
Brigadier GeneralMartin E. Green
5/18/63
Battle - Vicksburg - Vicksburg, Mississippi
In mid-May, 1863, after six months of unsuccessful attempts, Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's Army of the Tennessee finally converged on Vicksburg, defended by a Confederate army under Lt. Gen. John C. Pemberton. Capture of the Mississippi River town was critical to Union control of the strategic river. Vicksburg was located on a high river bluff defended with artillery, and Pemberton's men had constructed a series of fortifications in an 8-mile arc surrounding the city on the landward side. After crossing the…READ MORE
7/4/63
Leadership Change - Regiment - Lieutenant Colonel Leonidas C. Campbell
Lieutenant ColonelLeonidas C. Campbell
7/4/63
Leadership Change - Brigade - Colonel Colton Greene
ColonelColton Greene
7/4/63
Leadership Change - Division - Brigadier General John S. Marmaduke
Brigadier GeneralJohn S. Marmaduke
7/4/63
Battle - Helena - Helena-West Helena, Arkansas
Lt. Gen. Theophilus Holmes, Confederate commander in Arkansas, sought to relieve Union pressure on Vicksburg, Mississippi as the army of Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant besieged that strategic city. Holmes won approval for a plan to assault the Union-held river town of Helena, Arkansas, 170 miles north of Vicksburg, with a combined force of about 7,600 men. About 4,000 Union soldiers were in Helena under the command of Maj. Gen. Benjamin Prentiss. Four artillery batteries defended the town, surrounded on the la…READ MORE
8/27/63
Battle - Reed's Bridge or Bayou Meto - Bayou Metoe, Arkansas
9/10/63
Battle - Bayou Fourche - Little Rock, Arkansas
10/25/63
Battle - Pine Bluff - Jefferson County, Arkansas
4/18/64
Battle - Poison Spring - Ouachita County, Arkansas
Poison Spring State Park is a day use park complete with picnic furnishings, a trail and a diorama summarizing the Battle of Poison Spring. This site is dedicated to the battle fought there April 18, 1864, during the Camden expedition of the Red River Campaign. Confederate troops attacked Union soldiers returning from taking supplies from Camden, Arkansas.READ MORE
4/29/64
Battle - Jenkins' Ferry - Jenkins' Ferry, Arkansas
At Jenkins Ferry on April 29 and 30, 1864, Union troops fought off an attack by the Confederates and, using an inflatable pontoon bridge, crossed the flooded Saline River and retreated to Little Rock. The land where this Civil War battle took place was settled by Thomas Jenkins, who started the ferry in 1815. It was run by his sons, William and John DeKalb, until the Civil War circa 1861.READ MORE
6/6/64
Battle - Old River Lake - Chicot County, Arkansas
9/27/64
Battle - Fort Davidson - Iron County, Missouri
Facing battlefield defeats in the late summer of 1864, the Confederacy desperately sought victories in hopes of persuading the war-weary Union population to vote against the reelection of Abraham Lincoln that November. That September, the 12,000-man Confederate Army of Missouri under Maj. Gen. Sterling Price moved north with the goal of capturing St. Louis. Eighty miles south of the city, Price encountered Fort Davidson near the town of Ironton, defended by 1,500 men under Union Brig. Gen. Thomas Ewing. On…READ MORE
10/15/64
Battle - Glasgow - Glasgow, Missouri
10/21/64
Battle - Little Blue River - Jackson County, Missouri
10/22/64
Battle - Byram's Ford - Kansas City, Missouri
Maj. Gen. Sterling Price's Confederate Army of Missouri headed towards Kansas City, Missouri and Fort Leavenworth, hoping to capture Missouri for the South in the weeks prior to Abraham Lincoln's reelection in 1864. Union Maj. Gen. Samuel R. Curtis's Army of the Border, in and around Westport, was blocking Price's movement, while Maj. Gen. Alfred Pleasonton's provisional cavalry division was pressing Price's rearguard. On October 22nd, Maj. Gen. James G. Blunt's division held a defensive position on the we…READ MORE
10/25/64
Battle - Mine Creek - Linn County, Kansas
About six miles south of Trading Post, Kansas, where the Marais de Cygnes cavalry engagement had occurred earlier in the day, the Union brigades of Col. Frederick Benteen and Col. John Phillips, of Maj. Gen. Alfred Pleasonton's Provisional Cavalry Division, overtook a retreating Confederate cavalry column from Maj. Gen Sterling Price's Army of Missouri crossing Mine Creek. The rebels, stalled by their 500-wagon supply train crossing the rain-swollen ford, formed a line of about 7,000 men on the north side…READ MORE
5/4/65
Mustered Out - Missouri 3rd Cavalry - Missouri
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