9th REGIMENT CAVALRY.
Dyer's Regimental History

from A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion, vol. III, Regimental Histories
by Frederick H. Dyer [1908]

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9th REGIMENT CAVALRY.

• Organized at Camp Douglas, Chicago, Ills., and
• mustered in November 30, 1861.
• Moved from Chicago to Benton Barracks, Mo.,
• thence to Pilot Knob and to Reeve's Station on Big Black, February 16-27, 1862.

• Attached to Steele's Division, District of Southeast Missouri, to May, 1862.
• Unattached Cavalry Curtis' Army of Southwest Missouri, to July, 1862.
• District of Eastern Arkansas, Department of Missouri, to December, 1862.
• 2nd Brigade, 3rd (Cavalry) Division, District Eastern Arkansas, Department of the Tennessee to January, 1863.
• 2nd Brigade, 2nd Cavalry Division, 13th Army Corps, Dept. of the Tennessee, to April, 1863.
• 2nd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, 16th Army Corps, Department Tennessee to June, 1863.
• 1st Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, 16th Army Corps to August, 1863.
• 2nd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, 16th Army Corps to April, 1864.
• 3rd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, 16th Army Corps to June, 1864.
• 1st Brigade, Cavalry Division, District West Tennessee, July, 1864.
• 2nd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, District of West Tennessee to November, 1864.
• 2nd Brigade, 5th Division Cavalry Corps, Military Division Mississippi to July, 1865.
• District of Alabama to October, 1865.

SERVICE.-

• Moved to Jacksonport, Ark., March, 1862, and duty there till June.
  • Action at Cotton Plant May 14.
  • Village Creek May 21.
  • Reconnoissance from Jacksonport toward Augusta and Des Arc May 26-29.
  • Cache River Bridge May 28.
  • Galloway Farm, near Jacksonport, June 2.
  • Waddell's Farm, Village Creek, June 2 (Cos. "A," "C " "K," "M").
• Near Jacksonport June 12 (Detachment)
• Reconnoissance toward Augusta June 23 (Co. "F").
• March to Helena, Ark., June 26-July 14.
  • Stewart's Plantation, Village Creek, June 27.
• Duty at Helena till April, 1863.
  • Expedition from Helena to Moro November 5-8, 1862 (Detachment).
  • Clarendon August 13.
  • Marianna November I.
  • Lagrange November 8.
  • Expedition from Helena to Grenada, Miss., Norember 27-December 5.
  • Yocknapatalfa, near Mitchell's Cross Roads, Miss., December 1.
  • Oakland December 3.
  • Expedition to Duvall's Bluff January 9-16, 1863.
• Moved to Memphis, thence to Germantown, Tenn., April 4-11.
• Expedition from Lagrange to Senatobia, Miss., May 21-26.
  • Senatobia May 23 and 25.
• Operations in Northwest Mississippi June 16-25.
  • Near Holly Springs, Miss., June 16-17.
• Jackson, Tenn., July 13.
• Scout from Germantown July 16-20.
• Coldwater July 28.
• Expedition from Memphis to Grenada, Miss., August 12-23.
  • Grenada August 17.
• Expedition from LaGrange to Toon's Station September 11-16.
  • Montezuma September 16.
• Operations in North Mississippi and West Tennessee against Chalmers October 4-17.
  • Lockhart's Mills October 6.
  • Salem October 8.
  • Ingraham's Mills, near Byhalia, October 12.
  • Wyatt's, Tallahatchie River, October 13.
• Operations on Memphis and Charleston R. R. November 3-5.
  • Colliersville November 3.
  • Moscow November 5.
• Operations on Memphis and Charleston R. R. against Lee's attack November 28-December 10.
  • Saulsbury December 3.
  • Wolf Bridge near Moscow, December 3-4.
  • Scout from Colliersviile December 4.
• Near Colliersville December 13 (Detachment).
• Near Moscow December 27.
• Colliersville December 27-28.
• Oak Ridge January 16, 1864.
• Smith's Expedition from Colliersville to Okolona, Miss., February 11-26.
  • Near Okolona February 18.
  • Aberdeen February 18.
  • New Albany February 18.
  • West Point and New Albany February 20.
  • Okolona February 21.
  • Ivey's Hill, near Okolona February 22.
• Regiment veteranized March 16, 1864, and
• Veterans on furlough till April 27.
• Sturgis' Expedition into Mississippi June 1-13 (Detachment).
  • Brice's, or Tishamingo Creek, near Guntown, June 10.
  • Ripley June 11.
• Smith's Expedition to Tupelo July 5-21.
  • About Pontotoc July 11.
  • Camargo's Cross Roads, Harrisburg, July 13.
  • Tupelo July 14-15.
  • Old Town Creek July 15.
• Smith's Expedition to Oxford, Miss., August 1-30.
  • Tallahatchie River August 7-9.
  • Hurricane Creek and Oxford August 9.
  • Hurricane Creek August 13-14 and 19.
• Operations in West Tennessee and Alabama against Hood, and Nashville (Tenn.) Campaign November-December.
  • Expedition from Memphis to Moscow November 9-13.
  • Shoal Creek November 11.
  • On line of Shoal Creek November 16-20.
  • Lawrenceburg November 22.
  • Campbellsville November 24.
  • Columbia, Duck River November 24-27.
  • Mt. Carmel November 28.
  • Franklin November 30.
  • Battle of Nashville December 15-16.
  • Pursuit of Hood to the Tennessee River December 17-28.
  • Brentwood and West Harpeth River December 17.
  • Spring Hill December 18.
  • Franklin Pike, Curtis Creek and Rutherford Creek December 19.
  • Columbia December 20.
  • Lynnville and Richland Creek December 24.
  • Anthony's Gap, near Pulaski, December 25.
• Expedition from Eastport to Russellsville, Ala., February 19-23, 1865.
  • Tuscumbia February 20.
• Duty at Huntsville and Florence, Ala., Eastport, Miss., and Gravelly Springs, Ala., till June.
• Moved to Iuka, Miss., June 23, thence to Decatur, Ala., July 4.
• To Montgomery and Selma, Ala. thence to Gainesville August 20.
• Duty in District of Montgomery, Ala., till October.
• Mustered out at Selma, Ala., October 31, 1865.

Regiment lost during service

• 1 Officer and 45 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and
• 6 Officers and 241 Enlisted men by disease.
• Total 293.

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