Cavalry Units: 3rd Ohio Volunteer Cavalry
Cavalry units were recruited from all over the state. Those represented in detail here are the ones recruited primarily from northwest Ohio counties and those whose members wrote to local newspapers. More information will be added as it becomes available.
This Regiment was organized from the State at large, at Monroeville, Huron County, Ohio, from September 4, 1861 to December 11, 1861, to serve three years.
On the expiration of their term of service, the original members (except veterans) were mustered out, and the organization composed of veterans and recruits was retained in service until August 4, 1865, when it was mustered out in accordance with orders from the War Department.
Some of the battles in which this unit participated include:
- Siege of Corinth, MS, beginning April 30, 1862
- Mumfordsville, KY, September 21, 1862
- Bradstown, KY, October 4, 1862
- Lexington, KY, October 17, 1862
- Stone River, TN, December 31, 1862
- Stewart's Creek, TN, January 1, 1863
- Middleton, TN, January 31, 1863
- Chickamauga, GA, September 19-20, 1863
- McMinnville, TN, September 28, 1863
- Shelbyville Pike (near Farmington, TN), October 7, 1863
- Decatur, Courthland Road, AL, May 26-27, 1864
- Moulton, AL, May 28-29, 1864
- Noonday Creek, GA, June 20, 1864
- Kenesaw Mountain, GA, June 27, 1864
- Vining Station, GA, July 2, 1864
- Peach Tree Creek, GA, July 20, 1864
- Jonesboro, GA, August 19-20, 1864
- Lovejoy Station, GA, August 20, 1864
- Franklin, TN, November 30, 1864
- Selma, AL, April 2, 1865
- Columbus, GA, April 16, 1865
- Macon, GA, April 20, 1865
Roster - Field and Staff
Leonard Adams
Horace Newton Howland
Benjamin F.W. Cozier
William R. Jackson
Henry Stricker
David E. Tyler
Edward Y. Warner
Victor J. Zahm
Roster - Company B
Officers
Oliver M. Brown
Elisa M. Colver
John G. Oates
Non-Commissioned Officers and Enlisted Personnel
Roster - Company C
Officers
Reed V. Boice
Christopher C. Clay
Calvin S. Kimball
Non-Commissioned Officers and Enlisted Personnel
William F. Bradley Henry G. Norton
Roster - Company D
Officers
Non-Commissioned Officers and Enlisted Personnel
Roster - Company F
Non-Commissioned Officers and Enlisted Personnel
Roster - Company G
Non-Commissioned Officers and Enlisted Personnel
Joseph Kramer
William P. Wagner
George W. Zeigler
Roster - Company H
Non-Commissioned Officers and Enlisted Personnel
Orrin Barker
Thomas J. Cosley
Eustace Legget
Daniel Pickett
George P. Wilson
Roster - Company L
Officers
Non-Commissioneed Officers and Enlisted Personnel
Roster - Company M
Officers
Non-Commissioned Officers and Enlisted Personnel
Newspaper Articles about the Unit/Anonymous Letters
Articles:
Fremont Journal- May 1, 1863, June 3, 1864
Toledo Blade- 1/2/1862, 3/4/1863, 4/14/1863, 9/8/1864
Toledo Daily Commercial- 10/5/1863
Wyandot Pioneer- May 1, 1863 (resolution) pg. 2, July 1, 1864
(resolution on death of Private John Lindsay) pg. 2
Norwalk Reflector: December 24, 1861, December 31, 1861, October 28, 1862, January 20, 1863, September 20, 1864
Norwalk Experiment: December 23, 1861
Letters:
"E.H." Norwalk Reflector: May 6, 1862
"G.B.S." Norwalk Reflector: September 13, 1864
"J." Norwalk Reflector: April 15, 1862
"J.D." Norwalk Reflector: February 17, 1863
"T." Norwalk Reflector: December 16, 1862
Unknown. Norwalk Reflector: August 19, 1862, February 3, 1863, November 10, 1863
"Member, 3rd Ohio Cavalry. Toledo Blade- 2/12/1862, 1/23/1863
"Lieutenant Boardman," 3rd Ohio Cavalry. Toledo Blade- 2/24/1863
"M.W.," 3rd Ohio Cavalry. Toledo Blade- 4/12/1864
"T.B.P.," 3rd Ohio Cavalry. Toledo Blade- 7/23/1864
"The Unknown Pen," 3rd Ohio Cavalry. Toledo Blade- 12/16/1863, 1/16/1864
"M.W." Company C. Toledo Daily Commercial- 4/28/1864
"C." Toledo Daily Commercial- 4/14/1863
"S." Toledo Daily Commercial- 9/19/1864
"Buckeye" Company H. Williams County Leader- 6/12/1862
Unknown, 3rd Ohio Cavalry. Fremont Journal- May 6, 1864
"Vidette". Wyandot Pioneer. March 6, 1863 pg. 1
June 12, 1863 pg. 1
September 11, 1863 pg. 2
September 25, 1863 pg. 2
December 25, 1863 pg. 1
Company G. Seneca Advertiser: February 27, 1863
"Cavalry," Company G. Tiffin Weekly Tribune: December 13, 1861, February 14, 1862
