. History of the Third Indiana Cavalry [electronic resource]. he field were ordered toLouisville, Kentucky, and the men of the regiment who served inthe Army of the Potomac never knew anything about the othersuntil after the close of the war, and they began to meet in regi-mental reunions. And the only men who ever joined either one ofthe ten companies now in the field went as recruits to fill up thedepleted ranks of the various companies. Pursuant to this policy, according to the record (War of Rebel-lion Record, Vol. VII, page 467), on December 6, 1861, CompanyG, under Capt. Felix Graham, be
. History of the Third Indiana Cavalry [electronic resource]. he field were ordered toLouisville, Kentucky, and the men of the regiment who served inthe Army of the Potomac never knew anything about the othersuntil after the close of the war, and they began to meet in regi-mental reunions. And the only men who ever joined either one ofthe ten companies now in the field went as recruits to fill up thedepleted ranks of the various companies. Pursuant to this policy, according to the record (War of Rebel-lion Record, Vol. VII, page 467), on December 6, 1861, CompanyG, under Capt. Felix Graham, became a part of GeorgeH. Thomass division, Army of the Ohio, doing duty at his head-quarters. Company H, commanded by Capt. Alfred Gaddis, wasassigned to Gen. A. D. McCooks division for duty at his head-quarters. Company I, under Capt. Will C. Moreau, ordered toreport to General Buell, Louisville, reported to General McCookat Elizabethtown, Kentucky, but was ordered back to Louisvilleafter a few days. General Nelson, commanding the Fourth Divi- 40. Major Charles Lemon—Killed at Getteysburg. History of the Third Indiana Cavalry. 41 sion of the Army of the Ohio, at Paducah, Kentucky, on the 22dof February, 1862, reports that he had two companies of Indianacavalry with him under Capt. Eobert Klein (Vol. VII, page 654).These two companies were Companies I and K of the Third Indi-ana Cavalry, Captain Klein being captain of the latter company. These different companies, thus assigned, served with the com-mands to which they were assigned, and were with those dif-ferent commands in their several movements in Kentucky, on Saltriver, Green river and the Ohio, until our armies, numbering overone hundred thousand men, concentrated at Nashville, Tennessee,about the first of March, 1862. Under their several assignmentsthese companies performed orderly duty, acted as scouts, pickets,and had numerous skirmishes at different times with small bodiesof the enemys cavalry that was alw
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