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8th Illinois Cavalry Regiment

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Thumbnail for 8th Illinois Cavalry Regiment Gettysburg8th Illinois Cavalry Regiment Gettysburg
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US, Civil War Service Index (CMSR) - Union - Illinois, 1861-1865
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US, Civil War Service Index (CMSR) - Union - Illinois, 1861-1865
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US, Civil War Service Index (CMSR) - Union - Illinois, 1861-1865
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Memorial22 Oct 2013
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Memorial9 Sept 2008
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Memorial17 Oct 2013
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Memorial29 Oct 2013
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Memorial18 Oct 2013
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Memorial19 Oct 2013
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Memorial17 Oct 2013
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Memorial18 Oct 2013
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Memorial19 Oct 2013
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Memorial20 Oct 2013
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Memorial19 Oct 2013
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Memorial18 Oct 2013
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Memorial18 Oct 2013
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Subject8 Apr 2014
Thumbnail for Battle of ChancellorsvilleBattle of Chancellorsville
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8th Illinois Cavalry Wikipedia Page
8th Illinois Cavalry
Regiment Details - 8th Illinois Cavalry
Search For Soldiers - 8th Illinois Cavalry
Sumner's Division, Army of the Potomac; at Alexandria, Va.
Cavalry, 2nd Army Corps, Army of the Potomac
 Averill's Cavalry Brigade, 5th Army Corps
2nd Brigade, Stoneman's Cavalry Division, Army of the Potomac
1st Brigade, Pleasanton's Cavalry Division, Army of the Potomac
1st Brigade, 1st Division Cavalry Corps, Army of the Potomac
Major John Beveridge
Defenses of Washington, D.C., 22nd Army Corps
2nd Brigade, 3rd Division Cavalry Corps, Army Potomac
1st Separate Brigade, 22nd Army Corps, Department of Washington
map
8th Illinois Cavalry 
8th Illinois Cavalry Regiment 
 ignited a controversy that raged for years
9th New York Cavalry
http://www.gettysburg.stonesentinels.com/Other/Firstshot.php
8th Illinois Cavalry Regiment
5th Alabama Battalion
13th Alabama Regiment
13th Alabama Infantry
photos of the monument
map to its location
17th Pennsylvania Cavalry
Sixth
Ninth New York Cavalry
9th New York
bronze relief of a cavalry scout entitled, "Discovering the enemy, 
http://www.gettysburg.stonesentinels.com/NY/9NYCav.php
8th Illinois
9th New York's inscriptions
Ninth New York
8th Illinois Cavalry
8th Illinois Cavalry monument
8th New York Cavalry monument 
http://www.gettysburg.stonesentinels.com/IL/8IlCav.php
http://ironbrigader.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Map-of-the-Battle-of-Monocacy.jpg

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nikkibyrdbaker365Elias Henry Ditzler was my 2nd great grandfather - in Company E from Naperville, IL - other