16th Regiment, Kentucky Cavalry (Union)

The Civil War in Kentucky

16th Regiment, Kentucky Cavalry (Union)

HISTORICAL NOTES:

Regiment lost during service 3 Enlisted men killed and 1 Officer and 54 Enlisted men by disease. Total 58.

FIELD OFFICERS:

ASSIGNMENTS:

Attached to 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, Cavalry Corps, Dept Ohio, to May, 1864. 1st Cavalry Brigade, District of Kentucky, 5th Division, 23rd Army Corps, Dept. Ohio, to October, 1864.

BATTLES:

June 12. At Nicholasville, Ky., June to August. Cleveland, Tenn., August 17. Gillem's Expedition from East Tennessee toward Southwest Virginia September 20-October 17. Leesburg September 28. Near Rheatown, Duvall's Ford, Watauga River, September 30. Consolidated with 12th Kentucky Cavalry October 15, 1864.

ROSTERS:

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

REFERENCES:

Dyer - A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion


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