3rd Regiment, Kentucky Infantry (Union): Difference between revisions

no edit summary
(Added Kentucky as state.)
No edit summary
Line 3: Line 3:
=== Brief History  ===
=== Brief History  ===


The 3rd Regiment, Kentucky Infantry organized at Camp Dick Robinson, Kentucky, October 8, 1861. The regiment was in Louisville, Kentucky, October 6. It mustered out by Companies October 13, 1864, to January 10, 1865.<ref>National Park Service, [http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/ The Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System], (accessed 6 December 2010).</ref>  
The Third Regiment, Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, was organized at Camp Dick Robinson, under Colonel Thomas F. Bramlette. They were mustered into the United States service on October 8, 1861. Their regiment was reduced by illness, at Columbia, from over 500 to less than 300 men. After many battles the men were mustered out at Nashville on the 18th day of October, 1864. Some also veteranized.
<ref>Kentucky. Adjutant General, ''Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky'', Vol. 1, 1861-1866, (Frankfort, KY: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866),  Pg.627-629. {{FHL|51081|title-id|disp=FHL US/CAN book 976.9 M2r}}</ref>
The 3rd Regiment, Kentucky Infantry organized at Camp Dick Robinson, Kentucky, October 8, 1861. The regiment was in Louisville, Kentucky, October 6. It mustered out by Companies October 13, 1864, to January 10, 1865.<ref>National Park Service, [http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/ The Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System], (accessed 6 December 2010).</ref>


=== Companies in this Regiment with the Counties of Origin  ===
=== Companies in this Regiment with the Counties of Origin  ===
1,250

edits