The 3rd Kentucky Cavalry Regiment was a Cavalry Regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Service The 3rd Kentucky Cavalry Regiment was organized at Calhoun, Kentucky and McLean County, Kentucky and mustered in for a three-year enlistment on December 13, 1861, under the command of Colonel James Streshly Jackson. The regiment was attached to 5th Division, Army of the Ohio, to June 1862. Cavalry Brigade, Army of the Ohio, to September 1862. 1st Brigade, Cavalry Division, Army of the Ohio, to November 1862. 1st Brigade, Cavalry Division, Army of the Cumberland, to January 1863. 1st Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, Army of the Cumberland, to March 1863. District of Western Kentucky, Department of the Ohio, to June 1863. 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, XXIII Corps, Department of the Ohio, to August 1863. Unattached, Hopkinsville, Kentucky, 1st Division, XXIII Corps, to October 1863. District of South Central Kentucky, 1st Division, XXIII Corps, to November 1863. District of Nashville, Tennessee, Department of the Cumberland, to April 1864. 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, Cavalry Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to October 1864. 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, Cavalry Corps, Military Division of Mississippi, to July 1865. The 3rd Kentucky Cavalry mustered out of service on July 15, 1865. Detailed service Action at Woodbury, Kentucky, October 29; 1861. Brownsville, Kentucky, November 21. Sacramento December 28. Moved to Nashville, Tennessee, February 15-March 8, 1862, and to Savannah, Tennessee, March 18-April 6. Battle of Shiloh April 6–7. Advance on and siege of Corinth, Mississippi, April 29-May 30. Pursuit to Booneville May 31-June 12. Buell's Campaign in northern Alabama and middle Tennessee June to August. Columbia and Kinderhook August 11 (detachment). Mt. Pleasant August 14. March to Louisville, Kentucky, in pursuit of Bragg August 21-September 26. Munfordville, Kentucky, September 22. Ashbysburg September 25. New Haven September 29. Capture of 3rd Georgia Cavalry. Pursuit of Bragg into Kentucky October 1–22. Near Perryville October 6–7. Near Mountain Gap October 14 and 16. Expedition to Big Hill and Richmond October 21. March to Nashville, Tenn., October 25-November 7. Duty there until December 26. Reconnaissance to Franklin December 11–12. Wilson's Creek Pike December 11. Franklin December 12. Advance on Murfreesboro December 26–30. Lavergne December 26–27. Battle of Stones River December 30–31, 1862 and January 1–3, 1863. Overall's Creek and Wilkinson's Cross Roads December 31. Lytle's Creek, Manchester Pike, January 5, 1863. Expedition to Franklin January 31-February 13. Unionville and Rover