12th Illinois Cavalry Regiment

August 2020 Union Army military unit in the American Civil War 12th Illinois Cavalry Flag of Illinois.svg 100 Illinois flag February 24, 1862, to May 29, 1866 United States Union Cavalry Harpers FerryBattle of GettysburgStoneman's 1863 Raid 12th Cav, Co. H and I (McClellan Dragoons)Peninsula Campaign Seven Days Battle of AntietamFredericksburg Illinois U.S. Volunteer Cavalry Regiments 1861-1865 11th Illinois Volunteer Cavalry Regiment 13th Illinois Volunteer Cavalry Regiment The 12th Illinois Cavalry Regiment was a volunteer cavalry regiment which served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.12th Illinois Cavalry Regiment http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilcivilw/reg_html/cav_012.htm dead https://web.archive.org/web/20060505114203/http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilcivilw/reg_html/cav_012.htm 2006-05-05 2006-05-05 Rootsweb History The 12th Cavalry was organized at Camp Butler in February 1862.John G. Fonda, 2nd and 12th Illinois Cavalry and 118th Illinois Infantry http://history.alliancelibrarysystem.com/IllinoisAlive/files/wi/htm3/wi000063.cfm dead https://web.archive.org/web/20061018061947/http://history.alliancelibrarysystem.com/IllinoisAlive/files/wi/htm3/wi000063.cfm 2006-10-18 2006-10-18 Rootsweb It was part of the Army of the Potomac from September 1862 to November 1863; the Department of the Gulf from March 1864 to February 1865; and the Department of Texas from July 1865 to May 1866.12th Illinois Cavalry Regiment History http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilcivilw/history/c12cav.htm dead https://web.archive.org/web/20050120105705/http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilcivilw/history/c12cav.htm 2005-01-20 2005-01-20 Rootsweb The 4th Illinois Cavalry was consolidated with the 12th Illinois Cavalry on June 14, 1865. thumb|12th Illinois Cavalry At the Gettysburg Battlefield, the monument to the unit is west of Gettysburg on Reynolds Avenue between the Railroad Cut and Chambersburg Road. It was dedicated in 1891 by the State of Illinois.12th Illinois Volunteer Cavalry http://gettysburg.stonesentinels.com/union-monuments/illinois/12th-illinois-cavalry/ 2019-08-01 Stone Sentinels Total strength and casualties The regiment suffered 38 enlisted men who were killed in action or who died of their wounds and 4 officers and 192 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 234 fatalities.The Civil War Archive website after Dyer, Frederick Henry. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. 3 vols. New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1959. http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unilcav2.htm#12th Commanders Colonel Arno Voss (1861–1864) Colonel Hasbrouck Davis (1865) Illinois in the Cvil war website after Illinois Adjutant General's muster rolls http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilcivilw/f&s/013-fs.htm dead https://web.archive.org/web/20060519105808/http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilcivilw/f%26s/013-fs.htm May 19, 2006 2006-05-19 Rootsweb See also List of Illinois Civil War Units Illinois in the American Civil War References External links General Julius White http://antietam.aotw.org/exhibit.php?exhibit_id=88 12th Illinois Cavalry Monument http://www.virtualgettysburg.com/exhibit/monuments/pages/sr090.html dead https://web.archive.org/web/20110717213504/http://www.virtualgettysburg.com/exhibit/monuments/pages/sr090.html 2011-07-17 Category:Units and formations of the Union army from Illinois Category:1862 establishments in Illinois Category:Military units and formations established in 1862 Category:Military units and formations disestablished in 1866 Category:1866 disestablishments in Illinois