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From: "Desoto Joe" <>
Subject: Re: [MO-CW] 11th Volunteer Calvary of Missouri
Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2002 04:31:36 -0600
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From: "Ken and Barbara" <>
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Subject: [MO-CW] 11th Volunteer Calvary of Missouri


> I am looking for a list of the soldiers and any other information of
Company B, 11th Calvary Volunteers of Missouri during the Civil War. I
believe the Captain was S. B. Brown but am not for sure. Thank you!
>
> Barbara
>

11th Regiment Cavalry (Union)

Organized at Benton Barracks and St. Joseph, Mo., March 28 to December 11,
1863. Attached to District of St. Louis, Mo., Dept. of Missouri, to
December, 1863. District of Southwest Missouri, Dept. of Missouri, to
January, 1864. District of Northeast Arkansas, 7th Army Corps, Dept. of
Arkansas, to May, 1864. 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, 7th Army Corps, to
September, 1864. 3rd Brigade, Cavalry Division, 7th Army Corps, to February,
1865. 2nd Brigade, Cavalry Division, 7th Corps, to March, 1865. Separate
Cavalry Brigade, Cavalry Division, 7th Army Corps, to July, 1865.

SERVICE.--Duty in District of St. Louis, Mo., until December, 1863. At
Springfield and Rolla, Mo., until February, 1864. Expedition from
Springfield to Huntsville, Carrollton and Berryville, and skirmish, November
10-18, 1863 (Detachment). Operations in Northeast Arkansas January 1-30,
1864. Martin's Creek January 7. Rolling Prairie January 23 (Co. "B"). At
Batesville, Ark., February to April. Expedition from Batesville to Searcy
Landing January 30-February 3. Morgan's Mill, Spring River, White County,
February 9 (Detachment). Independence, Mo., February 19. Waugh's Farm, near
Batesville, February 19. Expedition from Rolla to Batesville, Ark., February
29-March 13. Scout from Batesville to West Point, Grand Glaze and Searcy
Landing March 15-21 (Detachment). Expedition from Batesville to Coon Creek,
Devil's Fork, Red River, March 24-31. Van Buren County March 25. Scout from
Batesville to Fairview March 25-26 (Detachment). Near Cross Roads March 27.
Spring River, near Smithville, April 13 (Detachment). Jacksonport April 20.
Expedition from Jacksonport to Augusta April 23-24. Near Jacksonport April
24. Ordered to Duvall's Bluff May, 1864, and duty there until October. Scout
in Craighead and Lawrence Counties June 25-26 (Co. "M"). Clarendon, St.
Charles, June 25-26. Clarendon June 27-29. Scout to Searcy and West Point
July 26-28 (Detachment). Des Arc July 26 (Detachment). West Point July 28
(Detachment). Hay Station No. 3 July 30 (Detachment). West Point August 5.
Expedition from Little Rock to Little Red River August 6-16. Operations in
Central Arkansas, with skirmishes August 9-15. Duvall's Bluff August 21 and
24. Long Prairie August 24. Jones' Hay Station August 24. Duvall's Bluff
September 6. Searcy September 13. Expedition from Duvall's Bluff toward
Clarendon October 16-17 (Detachment). Brownsville October 30. Duty at
Brownsville until February, 1865. Expedition from Brownsville to Augusta
January 4-27, 1865 (Detachment). Moved to Little Rock February 4, and duty
there until June. Moved to New Orleans, La., June 27-July 3. At Greenville
until July 27. Mustered out at Greenville July 27 and discharged at St.
Louis August 10, 1865.

Regiment lost during service 2 Officers and 28 Enlisted men killed and
mortally wounded and 5 Officers and 181 Enlisted men by disease. Total 216.

Desoto Joe/The Record Man


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