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Contributed by: Anita Siewert Benjamin Holmes Edmondson Born: Aug. 16, 1839 Died: June 29, 1886 Unit: Sergeant, 3rd Regt. Missouri Cavalry, Company G. Cemetery: Bellview Baptist Cemetery Missouri, Greene, Springfield Benjamin H. Edmondson (First_Last) Regiment Name 3 Missouri Cavalry Side Confederate Company E,G Soldier's Rank_In Private Soldier's Rank_Out Sergeant Alternate Name Notes Film Number M380 roll 5 CONFEDERATE MISSOURI TROOPS 3rd Regiment, Missouri Cavalry 3rd Cavalry Regiment was organized during the summer of 1862 with men from Springfield and Newtonia, and Polk County. Many of its members had seen prior service in the Missouri State Guard. It served in Shelby's, C. Green's, and J.B. Clark's Brigade, Trans-Mississippi Department. The unit fought in Marmaduke's Expedition into Missouri, participated in numerous conflicts in Arkansas, and with Marmaduke, 9 at Helena, and 4 at Bayou Fourche. The regiment lost 2 killed and 5 wounded at Poison Spring, 6 killed and 31 wounded at Jenkin Ferry, and 19 killed and 110 wounded during Price's Expedition. In the spring of 1865 it disbanded. The field officers were Colonel Colton Green, Lieutenant Colonels L.A. Campbell and L.C. Campbell, and Major James Surridge. |