Unit

Federal Regiment

3rd Pennsylvania Cavalry

Organized: Washington DC; mustered in 18 August 1861
Disbanded/Mustered out on 8 May 1865

Commanding Officer:
LCol. Samuel W. Owen

Battlefield Tablets for this Unit:
   Tablet #122: Army of the Potomac - 17 Sep, 10 AM to 17 Sep, 6 PM
   Tablet #21: Cavalry Division - 17 Sep, 6 AM to 17 Sep, 8 PM
   Tablet #121: Army of the Potomac - 17 Sep, 8 AM to 17 Sep, 6 PM

This Regiment's Chain of Command:
  Army - Army of the Potomac
  Division - Pleasonton's Cavalry Division
  Brigade - 5th Brigade, Cavalry Division

History of the Unit:
Formed originally as "Young's Kentucky Light Cavalry" in the Spring of 1861, the unit assembled in Philadelphia, then Washington DC where it was mustered into Federal service in August.1

In the Antietam Campaign:
On the Maryland Campaign, the Regiment was assigned to General Hooker's First (I) Corps. They were not engaged on 14 September on South Mountain, but they led the excursion of the Corps across the Antietam in the vicinity of Pry's Ford on the afternoon of the 16th. They saw action as skirmishers that evening, and in deployed detachments among I Corps infantry and artillery units all day on the 17th.2

We have 3 individuals in the AotW database for this unit:

Co.	Rank	Name
C	Sgt	Warren, E. Willard
H	Lt	Miller, William E.
F&S	LCol	Owen, Samuel W

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Notes

1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 731]

2 Rawle, William Brooke, and Regimental History Committee, History of the Third Pennsylvania Cavalry, Sixtieth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers in the American Civil War, 1861-1865, Philadelphia: Franklin Printing Company, 1905, pp. 117 - 129 [AotW citation 730]

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