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The 3rd Kentucky Infantry was organized at Camp Dick Robinson and mustered in for a three-year enlistment on October 8, 1861, under the command of Colonel Thomas Elliott Bramlette. The regiment was attached to Thomas' Command to November 1861. 11th Brigade, Army of the Ohio , to December 1861.
The 3rd Kentucky Infantry was organized in July 1861, at Camp Boone in Montgomery, Tennessee, under the command of Colonel Lloyd Tilghman.. At the Battle of Shiloh, the regiment was brigaded with the 4th Alabama Infantry, 31st Alabama Infantry, 4th Kentucky Infantry, 6th Kentucky Infantry, and 9th Kentucky Infantry.
Lt R.A. Mizell of the "Southern Rifles" Company A 4th Georgia Infantry; resigned in 1864 after being wounded in the Battle of the Wilderness; joined Company "A" 2nd Kentucky Cavalry of John Hunt Morgan command Group of John Hunt "Morgan's Men" while prisoners of war in Western Penitentiary, Pennsylvania: (l to r) Captain William E. Curry, 8th Kentucky Cavalry; Lieutenant Andrew J. Church, 8th ...
This is a list of military units raised by the Commonwealth of Kentucky, a neutral southern border state with dual competing Unionist and Confederate governments during the American Civil War, for service in the Union Army. Southern both geographically and culturally, an estimated 125,000 Kentuckians served as Union soldiers; almost quadruple ...
The 1st Kentucky Cavalry Regiment was a cavalry regiment in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War; serving mostly in the Army of Tennessee. In late 1862 it was consolidated to constitute the 1st (3rd) Kentucky Cavalry, usually known as 3rd (Butler's) Kentucky Cavalry. The 3rd continued to serve for the duration of the war.
The 3rd Kentucky Cavalry Regiment was organized at Calhoun, Kentucky and McLean County, Kentucky and mustered in for a three-year enlistment on December 13, 1861, under the command of Colonel James Streshly Jackson. The regiment was attached to 5th Division, Army of the Ohio, to June 1862.
Another regiment was also mustered in as the 3rd Kentucky Infantry, so the designation was changed. Despite the change, members of the regiment continued to refer to it as the 3rd Kentucky Infantry (or "Old 3rd") well into 1863. The regiment was recruited in Clay, Knox, Laurel, Owsley (including what is now Lee County), and Whitley counties.
A number of the black men killed in the Memphis riots of 1866 were soldiers of the 3rd Regiment. [4] Founded in 1783, the third regiment, often called the “Old Guard” is the oldest active-duty regiment currently serving to this day. Prior to the conditions of the Civil War, Blacks were barred from service by the Federal Militia Acts of 1792 ...