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The 3rd Kentucky Infantry, 7th Kentucky Infantry, and 8th Kentucky Infantry became part of the Army of Tennessee and returned to Port Hudson. The 3rd Kentucky Infantry were en route to Bragg at Tullahoma, Tennessee, when they were ordered to reinforce Lieutenant General John C. Pemberton in the defenses of Vicksburg, Mississippi.
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 regiments that were part of the Orphan Brigade were the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, and 9th Kentucky Infantry Regiments.Units of the Orphan Brigade were involved in many military engagements in the American South during the war, including the Battle of Shiloh.
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 ...
The first mounted infantry units were raised during the Mexican–American War (as the Regiment of Mounted Riflemen, but redesignated Third Cavalry Regiment in 1861), and others followed, for example in Australia in the 1880s. Terms such as "mounted rifles" or "Light Horse" were often used.
The 1st Kentucky Artillery (also known as Cobb's Battery) was an artillery battery that was a member of the Orphan Brigade in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. It fought in several engagements throughout the Western Theater , including the battles of Shiloh , Baton Rouge , Siege of Jackson , Sulphur Trestle , Resaca ...
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3rd Kentucky Mounted Infantry; 7th Kentucky Mounted Infantry; 8th Kentucky Mounted Infantry; 12th Kentucky Cavalry; Huey's Kentucky Battalion; Jackson's Division BG William H. Jackson. Armstrong's Brigade BG Frank C. Armstrong. 1st Mississippi Cavalry; 2nd Mississippi Cavalry; 28th Mississippi Cavalry; Ballentine's Mississippi Regiment; Ross's ...