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The 12th Illinois Cavalry Regiment was a volunteer Cavalry Regiment which served in the Union Army during the American Civil War . The 12th Cavalry was organized at Camp Butler in February 1862. It was part of the Army Of The Potomac from September 1862 to November 1863; the Department Of The Gulf from March 1864 to February 1865; and the Department Of Texas from July 1865 to May 1866. The 4th Illinois Cavalry Regiment was consolidated with the 12th on June 14 , 1865 . TOTAL STRENGTH AND CASUALTIES The regiment suffered 38 enlisted men who were killed in action or who died of their wounds and 4 officers and 192 enlistedmen who died of disease, for a total of 234 fatalities.http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unilcav2.htm#12th The Civil War Archive website after Dyer, Frederick Henry. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. 3 vols. New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1959. COMMANDERS
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