Next Prev Next Enter Your Search Terms Below Putting your search in quotes will search on the entire phrase - like "15th New Jersey". Limit to the first 10 20 50All results. Fox's Regimental Losses 513 LIST OF REGIMENTS IN THE UNION ARMIES, ETC.— CONTINUED. *Reenlisttd and served through the war. tEnlisted for nine months. ^Enlisted for one hundred days. JEnlisted for one year. The 3d Cavalry was attached to the Army of the Frontier, and, like many of the Western cavalry regiments, served in Missouri, Arkansas, and in the Indian Territory, fighting in unheard-of battles, and losing its men in engagements which are never mentioned in history and which were never lettered on the battle-flags of the Republic. One of the principal losses of the 3d Cavalry occurred at Baxter Springs, Cherokee Nation, October 6, 1863, where one company (I) attached to General Blunt's headquarters was attacked by Quantrell's guerrillas and forced to retreat with a loss of 33 killed and 14 wounded. The quartermaster was killed, and, of a regi mental band which accompanied General Blunt, not a man escaped, the enemy giving no quarter.* The ist Cavalry, also, lost 17 killed, 38 wounded, and 8 missing, in an affair at L'Anguille Ferry, Ark., August 3, 1862, the Chaplain of the First being among the killed. The principal losses of the i2th Battery occurred in the heroic defense of Allatoona Pass, Lieutenant Amsden, who commanded the battery in this fight, falling mortally wounded. The Twelfth was the only artillery present at that memorable engagement. The 8th Infantry, or " Eagle Regiment," became widely known by the live American eagle which it carried •Report Adj.-Gen. Wis., 1K65, p. 621. _15500