previous next
[1312]

Benton Hussars--Cavalry Battalion.

Organized at St. Louis, Mo., September 18-December 23, 1861.

Served unattached, Army of the West, to January, 1862.

2nd Division, Army of the Southwest Missouri, Dept. Missouri, to February, 1862, participating in skirmish at Hunter's Farm, near Belmont, Mo., September 26, 1861.

At Bird's Point, Mo., October.

Operations about Ironton-Fredericktown October 12-25.

Engagement at Fredericktown October 21.

Expedition from Bird's Point against Thompson's forces November 2-12.

Duty in Southeast Missouri till January, 1862, and in District of Southwest Missouri to February, 1862.

Assigned to 5th Missouri Cavalry February 14, 1862, which see.

1908.

Tufts University provided support for entering this text.

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.

An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.

hide Places (automatically extracted)

View a map of the most frequently mentioned places in this document.

Sort places alphabetically, as they appear on the page, by frequency
Click on a place to search for it in this document.
Missouri (Missouri, United States) (2)
Fredericktown (Missouri, United States) (2)
Bird's Point, Mo. (Missouri, United States) (2)
St. Louis (Missouri, United States) (1)
hide People (automatically extracted)
Sort people alphabetically, as they appear on the page, by frequency
Click on a person to search for him/her in this document.
Thompson (1)
hide Dates (automatically extracted)
hide Display Preferences
Greek Display:
Arabic Display:
View by Default:
Browse Bar: