Embury D. Osband

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|name= Embury D. Osband

|birth_date= June 6, 1832

|death_date= October 4, 1866

|birth_place= Ontario County, New York

|death_place= Yazoo County, Mississippi

|placeofburial= Vicksburg National Cemetery

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|allegiance = {{flagicon|United States|1861}} Union
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|branch = Union Army

|serviceyears= 1861–1865

|rank= 35px Colonel
35px Brevet Brigadier General

|commands=3rd U.S. Colored Cavalry Regiment
3rd Bde, Cavalry Div, Dist. of West Tenn.

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• American Civil War
• Battle of Fort Donelson
• Battle of Shiloh
• Siege of Corinth
• Battle of Coffeeville
• Yazoo City expedition
• {{tree list/final branch}}Battle of Egypt Station

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Embury D. Osband (June 6, 1832 – October 4, 1866) became the commanding officer of the 3rd United States Colored Cavalry Regiment during the American Civil War. Born in New York, he became a teacher and then started a company that provided books to schools. In 1856, he married and moved to Chicago. When the American Civil War broke out, he raised a company of the 4th Illinois Cavalry Regiment and became its captain. In 1863, he was appointed colonel of a new regiment composed of African-American former slaves. He led the regiment and later a cavalry brigade in Grierson's 1864–65 Raid. He received the brevet rank of brigadier general for war service. After the war he became a farmer in Mississippi but died in 1866.