Third Regiment Infantry

This regiment was organized in October, 1861, and originally commanded by Col. Henry C. Lester.
  • Regiment Organized October, 1861
  • Ordered to Nashville, Tenn. March, 1862
  • Captured and paroled at Murfreesboro, July 1862
  • Ordered to St. Louis, Mo., then to Minnesota
  • Engaged in the Indian expedition in 1862
  • Participated in the battle of Wood Lake, September 1862
  • Ordered to Little Rock, Ark. November 1863
  • Veteranized in January 1864
  • Engaged in battle of Fitzhugh's Wood's, March 30, 1864
  • Ordered to Pine Bluff, Ark. April 1864
  • Duvall's Bluff, September 2, 1865
  • Mustered out at Duvall's Bluff, September 2, 1865
  • Discharged, Fort Snelling


  • Company B.
    Rollin, Olin C. Second Lieutenant, promoted to First Lieutenant and Captian


    Privates
    Balyet, Jacob
    Dana, John
    Sloan, William L.
    Taylor, Elias T.
    Wood, Charles
    Wood, Coleman M.
    Wood, William H.

    Company E.
    Private

    Vaughn, Newton

    Company F.
    Privates

    Bowe, William A.
    Jones, Eben P.
    Kellogg, Edward S.
    Russell, Charles
    Richmond, Cicero T.
    Ridgeway, Francis J.
    Stone, Eugene H.
    Sandy, Thomas
    Truax, Johnson R.
    Vaughn, Edward A.
    Verrill, Alonzo
    Wright, James H.

    Company H.
    Misner, David First Lieutenant; promoted to Captian, Company C, and Major, First Minnesota Heavy Artillery
    Strickland, Almon C. First Sergeant
    Moran, James M. Sergeant; promoted Second Lieutenant
    Flanders, Leonard K. Corporal, promoted Seargent
    Cooper, John Corporal
    Alvey, William T. Corporal
    Stewart, Albert W. Wagoner

    Privates
    Barrick, Isaac A.
    Bassett, George S.
    Bradshaw, Thomas
    Biggs, Edwin A.
    Carney, Thomas
    Ervin, George
    Gray, Donald
    Hall, Martin V.B.
    Haskett, James L.
    Hayward, Shefield S.
    Hussey, William A.
    Lamb, William A.
    Lawton, Eliel W.
    Lewis, Albert H.
    Logne, Michael
    Lumsden, Robert
    Myrick, Felix A.
    Owen, William
    Reed, Alexandria
    Slater, John
    Donaldson, Allen B.
    Eckhart, Malon B.
    Erwin, Arthur, H.
    Eaton, Lovell
    Foster, William
    Gibson, John
    Hall, George W.
    Howe, Asa
    Hare, Herber, R.
    Baker, Benjamin B.
    Crosby, Solomon
    Evans, Rees
    Engle, Alvin
    Taul, Henry
    Conner, John G.
    Dearborn, Lorenzo
    Eckhart, Adam
    Grandstand, Gustaf
    Jackson, William H.
    Huser, Gottfried
    Lilly, David

    Company I.
    Private
    Reed, Alexander


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