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Ira Jacobs, Sugar Grove; transferred to Company M, Tenth Illinois Cavalry, as consolidated.
Oliver H. Judd. Aurora; transferred to Company MI, Tenth Illinois Cavalry, as consolidated.
Truman Lillie, Aurora; transferred to Company MI, Tenth Illinois Cav- alry, as consolidated.
Joseph R. Loomis, Aurora.
Richard Larkin, Elgin; corporal; transferred to Company M, Tenth Illinois Cavalry, as consolidated.
James McMullen, Aurora; transferred to Company MI, Tenth Illinois Cavalry, as consolidated.
George H. McCabe, Aurora; transferred to Company M, Tenth Illinois Cavalry, as consolidated.
Joseph F. McCrosky. Aurora ; transferred to Company M, Tenth Illinois Cavalry, as consolidated.
Eugene Newell, Aurora; sergeant; transferred to Company M, Tenth Illinois Cavalry, as consolidated.
Thomas B. Robinson, Montgomery; transferred to Company M. Tenth Illinois Cavalry, as consolidated.
Thomas J. Slossen, Aurora ; transferred to Company MI. Tenth Illinois Cavalry, as consolidated.
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Eleazer Todd, Sugar Grove ; sergeant ; transferred to Company M, Tenth Illinois Cavalry, as consolidated.
Charles Weaver, Sugar Grove; transferred to Company M, Tenth Illinois Cavalry, as consolidated.
Orrin Z. Whitford, Sugar Grove; transferred to Company M, Tenth Illinois Cavalry, as consolidated.
Darius D. Williams, Sugar Grove; transferred to Company M, Tenth Illinois Cavalry, as consolidated.
Recruits.
John Carl, Aurora; reenlisted as veteran.
John Cooper, Aurora ; transferred to Company M, Tenth Illinois Cavalry, as consolidated.
O. Burdette Dewey, Aurora; transferred to Company M, Tenth Illinois Cavalry, as consolidated.
Stephen V. or C. Estee, Aurora; corporal; transferred to Company M, Tenth Illinois Cavalry, as consolidated.
William Ellis, Aurora ; deserted.
Mark D. Flowers, Aurora; transferred to Company M, Tenth Illinois Cavalry, as consolidated.
Charles T. Finley, Aurora; transferred to Company M, Tenth Illinois Cavalry, as consolidated.
Frankley Fox, Aurora; transferred to Company M, Tenth Illinois Cav- alry, as consolidated.
Frank H. Goodwin, Aurora; died Memphis March 14, 1863.
John C. Goodwin, Aurora ; paroled prisoner ; died at New Orleans April 23, 1864; wounds.
James R. Gillette, Aurora; transferred to Company M, Tenth Illinois Cavalry, as consolidated.
William D. Kawkins, Aurora; transferred to Company M, Tenth Illinois Cavalry, as consolidated.
William M. Howell, Aurora; transferred to Company M, Tenth Illinois Cavalry, as consolidated.
Horace A. Miller, Aurora; transferred to Company M, Tenth Illinois Cavalry, as consolidated.
Richard M. Northam, Aurora; transferred to Company M, Tenth Illinois Cavalry, as consolidated.
Isaac S. Oliver, Aurora ; never joined; died at Camp Butler April 1, 1864. Benjamin F. Persons, Aurora ; transferred to Company M, Tenth Illinois Cavalry, as consolidated.
Thomas Robinson, Aurora; transferred to Company M, Tenth Illinois Cavalry, as consolidated.
John Schoolcraft, Aurora; transferred to Company M, Tenth Illinois Cavalry, as consolidated.
Edwin Scrafford, Aurora; transferred to Company M. Tenth Illinois Cavalry, as consolidated.
Lucien F. Town, Aurora; transferred to Company M, Tenth Illinois Cavalry, as consolidated.
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Thomas F. White, Aurora; transferred to Company M, Tenth Illinois Cavalry, as consolidated.
James S. Wood, Aurora; transferred to Company M, Tenth Illinois Cavalry, as consolidated.
Andrew Yeldham. Aurora; died at Memphis September 25, 1864. COMPANY K .* Captains.
Henry A. Smith, Burlington : cashiered.
Samuel B. Sherer. Aurora ; promoted major.
Francis E. Reynolds, Aurora ; resigned February 28, 1864.
William Duncan. Plato; see regiment as consolidated.
First Lieutenants.
Samuel Chapman, Plato: resigned April 1, 1862.
Francis E. Reynolds, Aurora : promoted.
Charles M. Harvey, Elgin ; see regiment as consolidated.
Second Lieutenants.
John S. Durand, Plato; resigned March 28, 1862.
Henry C. Padelford, Elgin ; resigned July 14, 1862.
Edward M. Barnard. Elgin; resigned January 23. 1863.
Charles M. Harvey, Elgin ; promoted.
John A. McQueen, Plato; see regiment as consolidated. First Sergeant.
Edward M. Barnard. Elgin : promoted second lieutenant.
Sergeants.
Henry C. Padelford, Elgin ; promoted second lieutenant.
Vernon O. Wilcox. Plato; transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps April ~, 1863.
George W. Archer. Plato; discharged September 23. 1864. John W. Davis, Burlington; discharged April 19, 1863; wounds.
Corporals.
John McQueen, Plato; reenlisted as veteran.
Henry Weightman, Burlington; discharged July -. 1862; disability.
Henry C. Scott. Plato: discharged September 23. 1864.
William Duncan, Plato; reenlisted as veteran.
Eugene M. Griggs. Plato: reenlisted as veteran.
John Baker. Plato; killed near Atlanta, Georgia. July 24. 1864.
Rue Schuyler. Jr., Plato; sergeant ; discharged September 23, 1864. Bugler.
Wallace S. Clark, St. Charles; reenlisted as veteran. Farrier.
John M. Padelford, Elgin; discharged February 6, 1862; disability. Blacksmith.
William Donovan, Elgin ; detailed by Pay Department by order of General Grant.
* This company was formerly attached to the Thirty-sixth Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infan- try, and known as Company "B" Dragoons, subsequently assigned as Company "K." Fifteenth Illinois Cavalry Volunteers.
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Saddler.
Russell C. Fowler, Elgin; discharged January 17, 1862; disability.
Wagoner.
Julius C. Pratt, Elgin ; discharged December 18, 1861 ; disability. Privates.
John Archer, Plato; discharged September 23, 1864.
Henry Ball, Plato; reenlisted as veteran.
Nathaniel Brown, Plato; reenlisted as veteran.
Mortimer C. Briggs, St. Charles; discharged September 23, 1864, as corporal.
Ephraim M. Cardner, Plato; discharged September 23, 1864.
Robert Collins, Plato; reenlisted as veteran.
William J. Christy, Plato; reenlisted as veteran.
George Cox, Plato; discharged September 23, 1864.
Robert N. Chrysler, Plato; reenlisted as veteran.
Isaiah B. Curtis, Plato; discharged July 18, 1862 ; disability.
Charles Collins, Plato; discharged September 23, 1864.
George W. Campbell, Plato; reenlisted as veteran.
Charles Cooley, Plato; reenlisted as veteran.
Harrison Eaton, Plato; discharged September 23, 1864.
Edwin F. Everts. Aurora ; discharged June -, 1862; disability.
John Fraser, Plato; discharged September 23, 1864.
William H. Fletcher, Rutland; discharged September 23, 1864.
Patrick Glennon, Plato; in hospital at Jacinto, Mississippi, August 14, 1862.
Robert Gallagher, Plato; reenlisted as veteran.
John Gilbert, Plato; reenlisted as veteran.
Norton N. Harger, Plato; discharged September 23, 1864.
Oliver Hanagan, Plato; deserted September 25, 1862.
Jerry Hickey, Plato; reenlisted as veteran.
Charles F. Holmes, Plato; discharged September 20, 1862; disability.
Charles P. Kennedy, Plato ; discharged September 23, 1864.
John M. Kingsley, Plato; discharged September 23. 1864.
James Knox, Plato; discharged April 19, 1863; wounds.
Christopher Kingsley, Plato; discharged September 23, 1864.
Abijah A. Lee, Plato; reenlisted as veteran.
Eben Lowder, Plato; died at St. Louis November 2, 1861.
Lloyd T. Lathrop, Plato; discharged September 23, 1864, as corporal. William M. Love. Plato; discharged September 23. 1864. William Mehan, Plato; reenlisted as veteran.
John Muldoon, Plato; discharged September 23. 1864. Eugene Mann, Batavia ; discharged September 23, 1864. Henry Nelson, Plato; reenlisted as veteran. Thomas C. Pennington, Plato; reenlisted as veteran.
Peter D. Porchet, Plato: reenlisted as veteran.
Marquis L. Perry, Plato; discharged September 23, 1864, as sergeant. David Peterson, Plato; discharged July 18, 1862; disability.
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Isaac Peterson, Plato; discharged September 23, 1864.
William H. Pease, Plato; reenlisted as veteran.
Abner A. Pease, Plato; reenlisted as veteran.
George Perkins, Plato; reenlisted as veteran.
Jeremiah Phelan, Plato; reenlisted as veteran.
John D. Pringle, Plato; discharged September 23, 1864.
George Pettingill, Plato; reenlisted as veteran.
Daniel Rettis, Plato; discharged September 23, 1864, as sergeant.
Daniel Reynolds, Plato; reenlisted as veteran.
Earl Robinson, Plato; reenlisted as veteran.
Abraham Rumsey, Plato; wounded; transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps January -, 1864.
Henry J. Rogers, Plato; deserted October 17, 1861.
William E. Satterfield, Plato; mustered out October 10, 1864.
Justice J. Stringer, Plato; discharged July 18, 1862; disability.
Amos D. Scott, Plato; discharged September 23, 1864.
Abijah L. Strang, Plato; discharged September 23, 1864.
Charles L. Seward, Plato; discharged April -, 1862; disability.
Henry M. Sawyer, Plato; discharged January -, 1862; disability.
James Sheddon, Plato; discharged September 23, 1864.
Clark Tucker, Plato; discharged September 23, 1864.
John B. Thompson, Plato; discharged September 23, 1864.
George M. Winchester, Plato; discharged September 23, 1864.
Wallace W. Wattenpaugh, Plato; discharged April -, 1863; disability. Martin F. Wattenpaugh, Plato; discharged September 23, 1864.
Noah Wallice, Plato; discharged June 26, 1862; disability.
John Wagoner, Plato; reenlisted as veteran.
Benjamin Weaver, Aurora ; discharged September 23, 1864.
Veterans.
Myron J. Amich, Plato; transferred to Company K, Tenth Illinois Cav- alry, as consolidated.
Edwin E. Balch, Plato; transferred to Company K, Tenth Illinois Cav- alry, as consolidated.
Nathaniel Brown, Plato; transferred to Company K, Tenth Illinois Cavalry, as consolidated.
Henry Ball, Elgin; transferred to Company K, Tenth Illinois Cavalry, as consolidated.
George W. Campbell, Udina; transferred to Company K, Tenth Illinois Cavalry, as consolidated.
Charles Cooley, Plato Center ; transferred to Company K, Tenth Illinois Cavalry, as consolidated.
Robert Collins, Plato; transferred to Company K, Tenth Illinois Cavalry, as consolidated.
Robert N. Crysler, Plato; deserted January 27, 1864.
William Duncan, Plato; promoted captain.
Eugene H. Griggs, Plato; transferred to Company K, Tenth Illinois Cavalry, as consolidated.
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John Gilbert, Plato; transferred to Company K, Tenth Illinois Cavalry, as consolidated.
Robert Gallagher, Elgin; transferred to Company K, Tenth Illinois Cavalry, as consolidated.
Jerry Hickey, Plato; transferred to Company K, Tenth Illinois Cavalry, as consolidated.
Nathan H. Larkin, Plato; mustered out July 24, 1865; was prisoner.
Abijah A. Lee, Elgin; transferred to Company K, Tenth Illinois Cavalry, as consolidated.
John A. McQueen, Elgin ; promoted second lieutenant.
William Meehan, Plato; transferred to Company K, Tenth Illinois Cav- alry, as consolidated.
Henry Nelson, Elgin ; transferred to Company K, Tenth Illinois Cavalry, as consolidated.
George J. or D. Pettingill, St. Charles ; transferred to Company K, Tenth Illinois Cavalry, as consolidated.
Jeremiah Phelan, Plato Center ; transferred to Company K, Tenth Illinois Cavalry, as consolidated.
William H. Pease, Plato Center; transferred to Company K, Tenth Illinois Cavalry, as consolidated.
George Perkins, Plato; transferred to Company K. Tenth Illinois Cav- alry, as consolidated.
Peter D. Porchet, Plato; transferred to Company K, Tenth Illinois Cavalry, as consolidated.
Abner A. Pease, Plato ; transferred to Company K, Tenth Illinois Cavalry, as consolidated.
Daniel Reynolds, Plato; transferred to Company K. Tenth Illinois Cav- alry, as consolidated.
Earl Robinson, Plato; transferred to Company K, Tenth Illinois Cavalry, as consolidated.
John Wagner, Plato; transferred to Company K, Tenth Illinois Cavalry, as consolidated.
Recruits.
Rob. J. Eakin, or Aiken, Aurora; transferred to Company K, Tenth Illinois Cavalry, as consolidated.
Henry L. Forbes, Aurora; transferred to Company K, Tenth Illinois Cavalry, as consolidated.
Charley M. Harvey, Elgin; transferred from Company B, Thirty-sixth Infantry, December 1, 1861 ; promoted second lieutenant.
Henry Irish, Aurora ; transferred to Company K. Tenth Illinois Cavalry, as consolidated.
James Moore, Aurora ; transferred to Company K, Tenth Illinois Cavalry, as consolidated.
Willett Richardson, Campton; transferred to Company K, Tenth Illinois Cavalry, as consolidated.
Willis Richardon, Campton ; transferred to Company K. Tenth Illinois Cavalry, as consolidated.
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COMPANY L.
Corporal.
Phiranda A. Butterfield, Rutland; discharged June 27, 1862; disability. COMPANY M. Unassigned Recruits.
James Snowball, Aurora ; rejected April 26. 1864.
George W. Hurlbut, Plato; never mustered.
William Seymour, Hampshire; mustered out May 21, 1865.
Orlando Vanekin, Plato; rejected.
HISTORY OF SIXTEENTH CAVALRY.
The Sixteenth Cavalry was composed principally of Chicago men. Thiele- man's and Schambeck's cavalry companies. raised at the outset of the war. formed the nucleus of the regiment. The former company served as General Sherman's body guard for some time. Captain Thieleman was made a major and authorized to raise a battalion. Thieleman and Schambeck's companies were thenceforth known as Thieleman's Battalion.
In September. 1862. the War Department authorized the extension of the battalion to a regiment, and on the IIth of June. 1863. the regimental organization was completed. In October. 1863. the Sixteenth Cavalry was ordered to Knoxville, Tennessee, and a portion of it participated in the mem- orable defense of that place in November and December. A detachment under Colonel Thieleman constituted the garrison at Cumberland Gap, and one hattalion. under Major Beers. was sent up Powell's Valley in the direction of Jonesville. Virginia. On the 3d of January, 1864. this battalion was at- tacked by three brigades of Longstreet's command. and after maintaining its ground for ten hours against five times its own number and losing heavily in killed and wounded, its ammunition having become exhausted, it was com- pelled to surrender. The loss of the regiment upon this occasion was three hundred and fifty-six men and fifty-six officers. Long afterward the rebels exchanged less than one-third of these prisoners. sent them back in the most wretched condition from the horrors of the prison pen at Andersonville. The others were victims of the frightful tortures to which they were there subjected and now lie buried in the National cemetery at that place.
After the conclusion of the east Tennessee campaign, the regiment was. in February. 1864. ordered to report at Camp Nelson, at Mount Sterling. Kentucky, where it was remounted, and in the latter part of April it left that place for Georgia. It then constituted a part of the cavalry corps under General Stoneman.
It arrived at Red Clay, Georgia, May 10, and on the 12th was engaged in the battle of Vornell Station, where it lost one officer, Lieutenant Kerfurth. wounded and captured, and twelve men. It was there on duty almost every day from that time until after the fall of Atlanta-a period of nearly four months-during which it participated in the battles of Rocky Face Ridge. Buzzard's Roost. Reseca. Kingston, Cassville. Carterville. Allatoona. Kene- saw, Lost Mountain. Mine's Ridge. Powder Springs, Chattahoochee and
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various engagements in front of Atlanta and Jonesboro. Returning to De- catur, Georgia, it remained there until September 14, and was then ordered to Nicholasville, Kentucky, to again remount. On the 22d of October it left that place for Nashville, and was ordered thence to Pulaski, thence to Fayette- ville and back, and then, after a few days, to Waynesboro, near the Tennessee river. It had been there but three days when Hood crossed the river at Florence and below, and the brigade in which the Sixteenth was then serving was ordered to fall back. On this retreat it kept up a running fight with the enemy for three days and nights, until it reached Columbia. While the main army remained here, the Sixteenth was sent up Duck river to defend some fords at which it was supposed the enemy would attempt to cross. The expec- tation was realized, and in the six hours' engagement which followed the regiment held its position triumphantly against a vastly superior force of the rebels until dusk, when it learned that a large body of the enemy had crossed the Duck river and got completely in its rear. The only support the regiment then had was part of a company from the Eighth Michigan, and one company from the Eighth Iowa. The enemy had two brigades in line of battle across the pike and directly in the rear.
The night was dark and our boys approached quietly until within one hundred yards of the enemy, when the charge was sounded, and the lines of the enemy were broken.
The Sixteenth next participated in the battle of Franklin and in various skirmishes between there and Nashville.
It engaged in the two days' battles at the latter place and in the pursuit of the enemy to the Tennessee river. It then returned to Pulaski and there went into camp, but most of the regiment was kept on scouting duty from that time until March, 1865. It then moved to Springfield, and in May returned to Pulaski, whence most of it was sent to Holton, Courtland and Decatur, Alabama.
On the 18th of June it returned to Pulaski, and on the 2d of July it was ordered to Franklin, where it remained, scouring the country in all directions, until ordered to Nashville for muster out. It arrived in Chicago on the 23d of August, 1865, for final payment and discharge.
During its term of service the Sixteenth marched about five thousand miles and engaged in thirty-one general battles and numerous skirmishes. At its muster out the only members left of the original field and staff officers were Colonel Smith, Captain Ford and Lieutenant Finger. The original force of the regiment was twelve hundred men. It received one hundred recruits, and at its discharge could muster only two hundred and eighty-five men, showing a casualty list of nearly one thousand.
In January, 1865. Captain Hiram S. Hanchett, of this regiment, was captured at Mount Pleasant, Tennessee, and taken to the rebel prison at Cahaba, Alabama. There he organized the sixty men he found in prison, systematized a plan of escape, and this band of braves overpowered the guard, broke out and marched for two days, fighting all the while, hoping to reach the river and capture a steamboat on which they might escape. After that struggle, however, they were overpowered and then taken back. A number
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of the fugitives were killed; but for Captain Hanchett a worse fate was re- served. He was enclosed in a wooden box eight feet square with one aperture, through which his food was passed.
Here he remained until the rebels heard General Wilson was coming and deemed it was best to shift their quarters.
Poor Hanchett was, by over a month of this confinement, reduced to too feeble a state to move and they blew out his brains when they left.
SIXTEENTH CAVALRY REGIMENT. (Three Years' Service.) Chaplain.
Cornelius R. Ford, Aurora; mustered out August 19, 1865.
COMPANY F. Sergeant.
James B. Benedict, Aurora; deserted May 26, 1865.
Wagoner.
Thomas McEnta, Aurora; deserted February 23, 1863. Privates.
Walter Bratt, Aurora; captured November 24, 1864.
Patrick Flemming, Aurora; mustered out August 19, 1865.
John Hieronymus, Aurora; mustered out August 19, 1865.
John Hughes, Aurora; mustered out August 19, 1865, as blacksmith.
Truman U. Phillips, Aurora; captured and exchanged; died at St. Louis May 28, 1865.
Charles Strong, Aurora ; absent ; sick at muster out of regiment.
Hans Temm, Aurora ; deserted July 22, 1863.
Edward Trumbull, Aurora ; mustered out August 19, 1865.
COMPANY H. Captains.
William P. Gibbs, Aurora ; discharged June 8, 1864.
John Q. Hattery, Aurora; mustered out August 19, 1865.
First Lieutenant. John Q. Hattery, Aurora; promoted. Second Lieutenant.
John Q. Hattery, Aurora ; promoted. Quartermaster Sergeant.
Nicholas G. Shelman. Aurora : deserted May 9, 1863. Commissary Sergeant.
Thomas G. Calkins, Aurora ; detached at muster out of regiment. Sergeants.
Calvin E. Breed, Kane county ; mustered ont August 19, 1865, as cor- poral.
Byron T. Whitford, Aurora; discharged June 30. 1865, as private; disability.
Eli McDaniel, Aurora : deserted May 25. 1863.
Corporals.
William Bronson. Aurora ; deserted May 20, 1863.
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Charles E. Pierce, Aurora ; died at Andersonville Prison August 6, 1864; grave No. 4,887.
Melancth'n B. Fletcher, Aurora; mustered out August 19, 1865, as sergeant.
Charles R. Vaughan, Aurora; private; sentenced to make good time lost by desertion.
Farrier.
William B. Maddock, Aurora; discharged February 16, 1864.
Wagoner.
Nelson M. Saterfield, Aurora; deserted April 25, 1863.
Privates.
William Bailey, Kane county ; deserted May 21, 1863.
Joseph Chaffin, Kane county ; deserted October 22, 1863.
Charles Clyde, Kane county ; discharged June 14, 1865.
Samuel H. Drew, Kane county ; transferred by sentence of courtmartial to Company D, Ninety-fifth Infantry, March II, 1865.
John Haley, Aurora; deserted April 25, 1863.
John Hunter, Kane county; prisoner of war; mustered out to date May 30, 1865.
Charles A. W. Hayes, Aurora; mustered out August 19, 1865.
Charles H. Harder, Aurora ; mustered out August 19, 1865.
Samuel O. Hart, Kane county:
John Krohl, Aurora ; died at Andersonville Prison August 4, 1864; grave No. 4,700.
John Kolly, Aurora ; mustered out August 19, 1865.
William H. Lott, Aurora; paroled prisoner; died at Annapolis, Mary- land, November 29, 1864.
Albert Miller, Kane county ; paroled prisoner ; mustered out to date May 30, 1865.
Charles Ohswald, Kane county, discharged February 2, 1865; disability. Joseph Rupert, Aurora ; mustered out August 19, 1865.
John Rothenback, Kane county ; deserted March 1, 1863.
William H. Sanders, Aurora; deserted ; arrested and sentenced to forti- fications during enlistment.
William J. Sanders, Aurora ; discharged July 27, 1865; disability.
Augustus Stevens, Kane county ; mustered out August 19, 1865, as sergeant ; was prisoner.
George W. Thayer, Kane county; transferred to Thirty-ninth Illinois Infantry.
Julius Vocker, Kane county ; deserted May 20, 1863.
Walter A. Warren, Kane county ; missing in action near Columbia, Ten- nessee, since November 25, 1864.
COMPANY M.
Private.
Thomas E. Brown, Aurora ; discharged to date May 29. 1865.
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HISTORY OF SEVENTEENTH CAVALRY.
The Seventeenth Cavalry Regiment, Illinois Volunteers, was organized under special authority from the War Department. issued September II. 1863, to Hon. John F. Farnsworth. The rendezvous was established at St. Charles, Kane county, Illinois. By the approval of the governor of the state the colonelcy of the regiment was offered to John L. Beveridge, then major in the Eighth Illinois Cavalry, who assumed the work of recruitment and organization and opened the rendezvous November 15, 1863. Eight con- panies were mustered in January 22, 1864. Four other companies were mustered in and the organization of the regiment completed February 12, 1864.
By the close of April next six hundred and fifty horses had been brought in by the men, under instruction from the cavalry bureau, and sold to the government.
May 3, 1864. the regiment moved, under orders from the general-in- chief, to report to Major General Rosecrans, commanding the Department of Missouri at St. Louis, Missouri.
The regiment was sent to Jefferson Barracks, Missouri, where one thou- sand one hundred sets of horse equipments were received. From there it moved to Alton, Illinois, and relieved the Thirteenth Illinois Cavalry in guard- ing the military prison at that place. For this purpose five hundred muskets were drawn from the arsenal.
Early in June following the First Battalion was ordered to St. Louis, and the Second Battalion followed immediately. Both being fully mounted. they were ordered at once to the north Missouri district.
The First Battalion, Lieutenant Colonel Dennis J. Hynes commanding. proceeded to St. Joseph, Missouri, where the commanding officer reported in person to General Fisk, commanding the District of North Missouri.
The Second Battalion, Major Lucius C. Matlack commanding, was assigned by General C. B. Fisk to the post of Glasgow, Missouri.
From this period for four months the three battalions were separate and remote from each other. Their history will be fitly given in separate narra- tives, extending over the time intervening and up to the time of reunion with the regimental headquarters.
OF THE FIRST BATTALION.
Lieutenant Colonel Hynes, being detailed as chief of cavalry, and at- tached to General Fisk's staff, the first squadron (Companies A and B), under Major H. Hillard, was ordered to Weston, Missouri. The second squadron (Companies C and D) was ordered to remain at St. Joseph, Missouri. Captain J. D. Butts in command.
The duties of the battalions were mainly escort and provost guard duty for three months; not always at the same localities, yet always within the District of North Missouri.
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