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Rev. James K. Ewer , Company 3, Third Mass. Cav., Roster of the Third Massachusetts Cavalry Regiment in the war for the Union, Roster of the Third regiment Massachusetts Cavalry. (search)
er Infantry left the State on November 5, 1862, with eight companies and seven hundred men. In Baton Rouge, two companies from the Thirty-third Massachusetts Infantry were added, I and K. On June 17, 1863, while in Louisiana, the regiment was converted into the Third Massachusetts Volunteer Cavalry, and other companies that had preceded them with Butler's Expedition were added, the First, Second and Third unattached companies. These were added as Companies L, M, and Read's Company. On March 26, 1865, Colonel Burr Porter joined the regiment and assumed command. With him, certain detachments of troops that had been recently recruited in the State were received and merged with Companies L and M By the addition of these different companies, and by the recruits received from time to time, the rolls were increased to over twenty-five hundred men. On May 20, 1865, the original members of the regiment were mustered out of service. On July 21, those remaining were, by order of the War D