Civil War History

Phillip Shay was in the War Between the States:

Discharge information follows:

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3rd REGIMENT STATE MILITIA CAVALRY (OLD).

• Organized at Louisiana, Pike County, Mo., May 5, 1862. Guard line of the North Missouri Railroad and operations in Northeast Missouri against Porter till February, 1863. Prairie Jackson, Mo., April 9, 1862 (Cos. "A," "B," "C"). Near Fayetteville, Ark., July 15. Moore's Mills, near Fulton, July 24, Greenville July 26. Dallas August 24. Newtonia September 13. Monroe County September 16 and October 4. Operations against Marmaduke in Missouri December 31, 1862, to January 25, 1863. Springfield January 8, 1863. Regiment disbanded February 4, 1863.

• Regiment lost during service 7 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 3 Officers and 62 Enlisted men by disease. Total 72.

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3rd REGIMENT STATE MILITIA CAVALRY (NEW).

• Reorganized from 10th Regiment State Militia Cavalry February 2, 1863. Attached to District of St. Louis, Mo., Dept. of Missouri, to June, 1863. District of Southeast Missouri, Dept. of Missouri, to July, 1863. District of St. Louis, Mo., Dept. of Missouri, to July, 1865.

• SERVICE.--Moved from Pilot Knob to Patterson, Mo., March 16, 1863. Operations against Marmaduke April 20-May 1, 1863. Patterson April 20. Fredericktown April 22. Castor River, near Bloomfield, April 29. Bloomfield April 29-30. Chalk Bluff, St. Francis River, April 30-May 1. Near Doniphan June 1 (Detachment). Expedition from Cape Girardeau and Pilot Knob to Pocahontas, Ark., August 17-26. Oregon County October 23. Scout from Cape Girardeau to Doniphan and Pocahontas, Ark., October 26-November 12 (Detachment). Scout from Pilot Knob to Doniphan, Ark., October 29-November 5 (Detachment). Reeve's attack on Centreville December 23. Pursuit of Reeves December 23-25. Puliam's December 25. Bolinger County January 14, 1864. Scout from Patterson to Cherokee Bay. Ark., January 20-27 (Detachment). Poplar Bluff February 27. Scout from Pilot Knob to Arkansas line, and skirmishes March 16-25 (Detachment). Oregon County March 19. Wayne County April 26. Scout from Patterson May 6-11 (Co. "A"). Randolph County May 8. Cherokee Bay, Ark., May 8 (Co. "A"). Near St. James June 10. Scout from Patterson to Buffalo July 8-12 (Detachment). Operations in Southeast Missouri and Northeast Arkansas July 18-August 6. Scatterville. Ark., July 28 (Detachment). Osceola August 2. Elkchute August 4. Near Rocheport September 3 (Detachment). Caledonia September 12 (Detachment). Scout in Randolph, Howard and Boone Counties September 15-19 (Detachment). Columbia September 16 (Detachment). Doniphan September 19. Ponder's Mill, Little Black River, September 20. Near Rocheport September 23 (Detachment). Ironton September 26. Shutin Gap and Arcadia Valley September 26. Fort Davidson, Pilot Knob, September 26-27. Arcadia Valley September 27 (Detachment). Caledonia September 28 (Co. "C"). <dy_1305> Leesburg October 1. Ponder's Mills October 3. Moreau Bottom, Jefferson City, October 7. Independence October 22 and 26. Pilot Knob October 26. Leesburg October 28. Duty at Weston, St. Joe, Liberty, Parksville, Pleasant Hill and Lone Jack, operating against guerrillas January to July, 1865. Mustered out July 13, 1865.

• Regiment lost during service 4 Officers and 57 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 1 Officer and 102 Enlisted men by disease. Total 164.

[3rd REGIMENT MO CAVALRY History ] . http://www.usmo.com/~momollus/MOREG/C009.htm

[Organized at Palmyra, Mo., and St. Louis, Mo., October 15,1861, to March 6,1862. Attached to District of Rolla, Dept. of Missouri, to December, 1862. Cavalry Brigade, Army of Southeast Missouri, Dept. of Missouri, to June, 1863. 2nd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, Army of Southeast Missouri, Dept. of Missouri, to August, 1863. 2nd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, Arkansas Expedition, to December, 1863. 3rd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, Army of Arkansas, to January, 1864. 3rd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, 7th Army Corps, Dept. of Arkansas, to March, 1865. Separate Cavalry Brigade, 7th Army Corps, to June, 1865. ]

SERVICE.--Duty in Southeast Missouri and District of Rolla, Mo.. till December, 1862, under Prentiss and McNeil. Action near Hallsviile, Mo., December 27,1861. Mt. 'Zion Church December 28. Inman's Hollow July 7, 1862 (Cos. "B," "D," "G," "H"). Mountain Store, Big Piney, July 25-2~ (Cos. "E," "F"). Scout in Sinking Creek and skirmish August 4-11 (Detachment). Salem August 9. Wayman's Mills and Spring Creek August 23. Scout from Salem to Current River August 24-28 (Co. "E"). Beaver Creek, Texas County, November 24. Expedition from Rolla to Ozark Mountains November 30-December 6 (Cos. "A," "B"). Ozark December 2 (Cos. "A," "B"). Wood's Creek January 11, 1863. Harteville, Wood's Fork, January 11. Batesville, Ark., February 4. Operations against Marmaduke April 17-May 2. Castor River, near Bloomfield, April 29. Bloomfield April 30. Coal Bluff, St. Francis River, April 30-May 1. Expedition against Little Rock, Ark., July 1-September 10. Moved from Wittsburg to Clarendon August 1-8. Near Bayou Metoe August 26. Bayou Metoe (or Reed's Bridge) August 27. Advance on Little Rock September 1-10. Bayou Fourche and capture of Little Rock September 10. Brownsville September 16. At Jacksonport, Ark., November, 1863, to March, 1864. Affair at Jackeonport November 21.1863 (Co. "E"). Reconnoissance from Little Rock December 5-13, 1863. Jacksonport December 23. Scouts from Brownsville January 17-19, 1864. Hot Springs February 4. Steele's Expedition to Camden March 23-May 3. Elkins' Ferry, Little Missouri River, April 3-4. Mark's Mills April 5. Little Missouri River April 6. Prairie D'Ann April 9-12. Camden April 15, 16, 18 and 24. Mt. Elba Ferry April 26. Princeton April 29. Operations against Shelby north of Arkansas River, May 18-31. At Little Rock till June, 1865. Benton Road, near Little Rock, July 19, 1364. Benton July 25 (Co. "C"). Scatterville July 28 (Detachment). Expedition from Little Rock to Little Red River August 6-16. At Tannery, near Little Rock, September 2 (Detachment). Expedition Little Rock to Fort Smith September 25-October 13 (Detachment). Reconnoissance from Little Rock toward Monticello and Mt. Elba October 4-11. Reconnoissance from Little Rock to Princeton October 19-23. Princeton October 23. Expedition from Little Rock to Saline River November 17-18 (Detachment). Expedition from Little Rock to Benton November 27-30 (Detachment). Mustered out June 14, 1865. (Co. "M" at Headquarters Dept. of Missouri, St. Louis, Mo., November, 1862, to June, 1863.)

Regiment lost during service 3 Officers and 37 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 1 Officer and 172 Enlisted men by disease. Total 213.

Source of Data: "A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion, V.III" by Frederick H. Dyer, c1908, p.1304

Ma-Mc"-Index to the Officers of Missouri Volunteers and Missouri State Militia

McElroy, Robert Capt. 3rd MSM Cav. Maj. 3rd MSM Cav.

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9th REGIMENT MO CAVALRY.

Organized originally as Bowen's Cavalry Battalion, which was designated 9th Cavalry October, 1862, by Consolidation with other Companies. Attached to District of Roila, Dept. of Missouri, to December, 1862.

SERVICE.--Operations in Boone County November 1-10. Expedition from Rolla to Ozark Mountains and skirmish November 30-December 6 (Co. "H"). Discontinued by consolidation with 10th Missouri Cavalry December 4, 1862. Companies "G" and "H" attached to 3rd Missouri Cavalry December 11, 1862.

Source of Data: "A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion, V.III" by Frederick H. Dyer, c1908, p.1309

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Portions of an E Mail explanation on the MSM:

MISSOURI STATE MILITIA (three-year)
   Raised in Missouri in December 1861-April 1862.  Men who enlisted in these units were to serve within state boundaries.  The MSM consisted initially of one regiment of infantry and one company of sappers and miners; two batteries of light artillery; and 14 regiments, three battalions, and one independent company of cavalry. All MSM enlistees were mustered out by July 1865.
   Men who served in Missouri State Militia units were ruled eligible in March 1873 to receive a federal military pension and/or benefits if they had been disabled by wounds or injuries incurred or diseases contracted while their MSM unit "was cooperating with United States forces."  In February 1895, officers and men of the MSM were ruled eligible to receive federal military pensions authorized under the pension act of June 1890 if they had served for ninety days or more, and if they had been honorably discharged from the MSM.
   NOTE: Missouri Civil War Union soldiers would be eligible to receive a postwar federal military pension and benefits if the units in which they served had been sworn into federal service, if the units in which they served were formally recognized by the War Department as having been at some point in the service of  the United States, or if they had been disabled by wounds or other injuries incurred while their unit "was temporarily cooperating with a unit of the military forces of the United States," and had filed a pension or benefit claim based on that wound or injury prior to July 4, 1874.

Source of Data: "A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion, V.III" by Frederick H. Dyer, c1908, p.1304

Ma-Mc"-Index to the Officers of Missouri Volunteers and Missouri State Militia

McElroy, Robert Capt. 3rd MSM Cav. Maj. 3rd MSM Cav.

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