Friday, March 18, 2011

Naughton's Irish Dragoons

Organized September 1, 1861, by authority of Gen. Fremont, to be attached to 23rd Illinois Infantry as a Cavalry Company. Expedition to Lexington, Mo., October 5-16. Lexington October 16. Johnstown October 24. Transferred to 3rd Missouri Cavalry as Company "L" and again to 5th Iowa Cavalry, "Curtis Horse," as Company "L," November, 1861.

SOURCE: Frederick H. Dyer, A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion, Part 3, p. 1034

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