3rd United States Indian Home Guard Infantry

== Regimental History and Service Record ==
Organized at Carthage, Mo., September 16, 1862. Served Unattached, Dept. of Kansas, September, 1862. 1st Brigade, Dept. of Kansas, to October, 1862. 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, Army of the Frontier, Dept. of Missouri, to February, 1863. District of Northwest Arkansas, Dept. of Missouri, to June, 1863. District of the Frontier, Dept. of Missouri, to December, 1863. 1st Brigade, District of the Frontier, Dept. of Missouri, to January, 1864. 1st Brigade, District of the Frontier, 7th Army Corps, Dept. of Arkansas, to February, 1864. Indian Brigade, District of the Frontier, 7th Army Corps, Dept. of Arkansas, to February, 1865. 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, 7th Army Corps, to May, 1865.
* June 1862 - Many men from the dispersed Confederate States 1st Cherokee Cavalry (Mounted Rifles) joined this unit 
SERVICE.--Bayou Bernard, I. T., July 28, 1862. Neosho, Mo., September 1. Spring River September 1. Neosho September 3 and 5. Shirley's Ford, Spring River, September 20. Newtonia September 30. Occupation of Newtonia October 4. Newtonia October 5. Fort Gibson October 15. 
* October 22, 1862 - Action at Beattie's Prairie, Indian Territory
Cane Hill November 28. 
* December ?, 1862 - Expedition towards Fort Gibson, Indian TerritoryNot originally referenced on unit homepage
Capture of Fort Davis December. Salem December 2. Prairie Grove and Rhea's Mills December 7. Neosho December 15. Cane Hill December 20. Expedition over Boston Mountains and capture of Van Buren December 27-29. 
* Sent to Indian Territory and occupy line of the Arkansas River and protect friendly Indians, with Headquarters at Fort Gibson, I. T, and Fort Smith, Ark., until May, 1865. 
** Near Maysville January, 1863. 
** Cherokee Country January 18. 
** February 28, 1863 - Action at Fort Gibson, Indian Territory 
** Neosho March 2. 
** Greenlief Prairie March 12. 
** Fort Blount March 27. 
** March 28, 1863 - Action at Fort Gibson, Indian Territory
** March 30, 1863 - Skirmish at Tahlequah, Indian Territory
** Near Maysville May 8. 
** Fort Smith, Ark., May 15. 
** May 20, 1863 - Skirmish at Fort Gibson, Indian Territory 
** Fort Blount May 20. 
** May 22, 1863 - Skirmish at Fort Gibson, Indian Territory 
** Fort Blount May 25 and June 1. 
** June 1, 1863 - Skirmish at Fort Gibson, Indian Territory 
** June 6-20, 1863 - Operations about Fort Gibson, Indian Territory 
Spring Creek June 6. Greenlief Prairie June 16. 
* June 19, 1863 - Skirmish at Fort Gibson, Indian Territory
* Fort Blount June 19. 
Cabin Creek July 1-2. Elk Creek, near Honey Springs, July 17. Operations in Cherokee Nation September 11-15. Fourteen Mile Creek October 30. 
* December 16, 1863 - Attack on Fort Gibson, Indian Territory
Near Sheldon Place, Barren Fork, December 18. 
* December 26, 1863 - Skirmish at Fort Gibson, Indian Territory
Operations in Indian Territory February 1-21, 1864. Scullyville April 16. Near Maysville May 8. Cabin Creek and Prior's Creek September 19. 
* November 14, 1864 - Action at Cow Creek, Kansas 
* November 28, 1864 - Skirmish at Cow Creek, Kansas 
* March 18-30, 1865 - Expedition from Fort Gibson to Little River and Hillabee, Indian Territory 
* Skirmish on Snake River, Ark., April 28. 
* Mustered out May 31, 1865.
== Regimental Roster ==
== Regiment Statistical Information ==
== Legacy ==
== Notes ==
== Sources == 
* (Pages 725, 986, 1741)
* (Page 194)
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