The 3rd Iowa Cavalry Regiment was a cavalry

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that served in the

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during the

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Service

The 3rd Iowa Cavalry was organized at

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and mustered in for three years of Federal service between August 30, 1861, and September 14, 1861. The regiment was mustered out of Federal service on August 9, 1865.

Total strength and casualties

A total of 2,165 men served in the 3rd Iowa at one time or another during its existence. It suffered 5 officers and 79 enlisted men who were killed in action or who died of their wounds and 4 officers and 230 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 318 fatalities.

Commanders

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Cyrus Bussey * Colonel

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* Colonel

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Other Notable People

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, who may have served with the 3rd Iowa Cavalry under an assumed name. * John Pickler, United States Representative from

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. * Calvary M. Young, who captured a Confederate brigadier general in 1864, during

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into Missouri and Kansas.

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