6th Illinois Cavalry Regiment explained

Unit Name:	6th Illinois Cavalry Regiment
Dates:	November 19, 1861, to November 20, 1865
Country:	United States
Allegiance:	Union
Branch:	Cavalry
Battles:	Siege of Port Hudson Battle of Nashville

The 6th Illinois Cavalry Regiment was a cavalry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Service

The 6th Illinois Volunteer Cavalry was mustered into service at Camp Butler, Illinois, on November 19, 1861. The regiment mustered out on November 20, 1865.

Total strength and casualties

The regiment suffered 5 officers and 60 enlisted men who were killed in action or who died of their wounds and 8 officers and 328 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 401fatalities.^[1]

Personnel

• Major Arno Voss – reassigned to 12th Illinois Cavalry February 1, 1862
• Colonel Thomas H. Cavanaugh – resigned March 28, 1862.
• Colonel Benjamin H. Grierson – promoted to brigadier general June 3, 1863.
• Colonel Matthew H. Starr – died of wounds October 1, 1864.
• Colonel John Lynch – mustered out with the regiment.^[2]

See also

• List of Illinois Civil War Units
• Illinois in the American Civil War
• Lizzie Aiken, Civil War Nurse

Notes

1. http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unilcav1.htm#6th The Civil War Archive website after Dyer, Frederick Henry. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. 3 vols. New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1959.
2. http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilcivilw/f&s/cav006-fs.htm Illinois in the Civil War website after Illinois Adjutant General's muster rolls

References

• The Civil War Archive