title: 6th Illinois Cavalry Regiment
text: # 6th Illinois Cavalry Regiment
  
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  The 6th Illinois Cavalry Regiment was a cavalry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
  
  ## Service
  
  The 6th Illinois Volunteer Cavalry was mustered into service at Camp Butler, Illinois, on November 19, 1861. The regiment mustered out on November 20, 1865.
  
  ## Total strength and casualties
  
  The regiment suffered 5 officers and 60 enlisted men who were killed in action or who died of their wounds and 8 officers and 328 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 401 fatalities.
  
  ## Personnel
  
  * Major Arno Voss – reassigned to 12th Illinois Cavalry February 1, 1862
  * Colonel Thomas H. Cavanaugh – resigned March 28, 1862.
  * Colonel Benjamin H. Grierson – promoted to brigadier general June 3, 1863.
  * Colonel Matthew H. Starr – died of wounds October 1, 1864.
  * Colonel John Lynch – mustered out with the regiment.
  