5th Regiment, Kentucky Infantry Mounted

HISTORICAL NOTES:

The Kentucky 5th Infantry Regiment, 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 teim 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. The regiment reported 134 casualties in the Battle of Shiloh, then was active at Baton Rouge. It was prominent at Chickamauga and later took an active part in the Atlanta Campaign. In the fall of 1864 it was mounted, aided in the defense at Savannah, and fought in the Carolinas. The unit had 91 men disabled at Chickamauga, totalled 201 men and 165 arms in December, 1863, and surrendered on April 26, 1865.

FIELD OFFICERS:

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.

ASSIGNMENTS:

Assigned to Kelly's and J.H. Lewis' Brigade, Army of Tennessee

BATTLES:

Shiloh, TN - Apr. 6-7, 1862
Aiken, SC - Feb. 11, 1865

ROSTERS:

The composite rosters of this unit contain the names of 3065 men.

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

REFERENCES:

Crute - Units of the Confederate States Army
Sifakis - The Compendium of the Confederate Armies

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