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The 7th Illinois Cavalry was able to regain their reputation when General Chalmers repeated the attack on Collierville on 3 November 1863. The Confederates were repulsed at this second Battle of Collierville by the Union Colonel Edward Hatch, while leading the 7th Illinois Cavalry, the 6th Illinois Cavalry, 2nd Iowa Cavalry and the 1st Illinois ...
Cavalry Grierson's Brigade Col Benjamin H. Grierson. 6th Illinois Cavalry: Col Reuben Loomis; 7th Illinois Cavalry: Col Edward Prince; 1st Louisiana Cavalry: Maj Harai Robinson; 2nd Rhode Island Cavalry: Ltc Augustus W. Corliss; 2nd Massachusetts Cavalry: Maj James Magee; 14th New York Cavalry: Cpt George Branning; 4th Wisconsin Mounted: Maj ...
4th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Cavalry; 5th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Cavalry; 6th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Cavalry; 7th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Cavalry; 8th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Cavalry; 9th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Cavalry; 10th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Cavalry; 11th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Cavalry; 12th Regiment ...
6th Illinois Cavalry: Ltc John Lynch; 7th Illinois Cavalry: Maj John M. Graham; 9th Illinois Cavalry: Cpt Joseph W. Harper; 12th Tennessee Cavalry: Col George Spalding; Battery K, 1st Illinois Light: Lt Isaac W. Curtis; Sixth Division BG Richard W. Johnson. 1st Brigade Col Horace Capron. 16th Illinois Cavalry: Maj Charles H. Beeres
7th Illinois Volunteer Regiment may refer to the following military units: 7th Illinois Infantry Regiment, a volunteer infantry regiment that served in the Civil War; 7th Illinois Cavalry Regiment, a volunteer cavalry regiment that served in the Civil War; 7th Illinois Infantry Regiment (National Guard), now known as the 122nd Field Artillery ...
Despite being a mounted Cavalry unit since 1866, the 7th Cavalry left its mounts behind in Texas as they left for war; the age of the horse-cavalry was over. The newly dismounted 7th Cavalry Regiment was sent to fight in the Pacific Theater of Operations and the last units left Fort Bliss for Camp Stoneman , CA in June 1943. [ 2 ]
Moving north, Colonel McGuirk's command came upon a 40-acre (160,000 m 2) Union cavalry camp on the north side of the town. After routing the 7th Illinois Cavalry into the river bottoms and capturing 150 prisoners and 5 stands of colors, McGuirk's men loaded 18 wagons of supplies and destroyed an additional 30 wagons.
Despite being the first troops raised in Illinois, the regiment was numbered the 7th Illinois, paying homage to the six Illinois infantry volunteer regiments that were raised to fight in the Mexican–American War fourteen years earlier. During their service part of the regiment wore gray zouave uniforms with orange piping. [2]