Kentucky Civil War Confederate Infantry Units: Difference between revisions

*[[3rd Regiment, Kentucky Mounted Infantry (Confederate)|3rd Regiment, Kentucky Mounted Infantry (Confederate)]]<br>Organized during July 1861, at Camp Boone, Tennessee. Many of the men had previous service in the Kentucky State Guard. During the spring of 1864 the regiment was mounted. <br>Surrender on May 4, 1865. <br>The field officers were Colonels Gustavus A.C. Holt, Albert P. Thompson, and Lloyd Tilghman; Lieutenant Colonels Benjamin Anderson, T.T. Barnett, and Alfred Johnston; and Majors James H. Bowman, William P. Johnston, and Al. McGoodwin. <br>

*[[5th Regiment, Kentucky Mounted Infantry (Confederate)|5th Regiment, Kentucky Mounted Infantry (Confederate)]]<br>Assembled during the late summer of 1861, included Freeman's Kentucky Infantry Battalion. Its members were raised in the counties of Pendleton, Breathitt, Morgan, Magoffin, Bath, Owen, Grant, Jessamine, Henderson, Harrison, Shelby, and Franklin. Being a twelve-month unit, when it became time to reenlist some of its members refused and were transferred to the 9th Kentucky Regiment. Later men of the 5th did reenlist for the duration of the war. It became part of the Orphan Brigade or Louisville Legion. <br>Surrendered on April 26, 1865.<br>Its field officers were Colonels Hiram Hawkins, Andrew J. May, and John S. Williams; Lieutenant Colonels John W. Caldwell and George W. Conner' and Majors Richard Hawes and William Mynheir. <br>