11th Kentucky Infantry (U)

Regimental History and Service Record

Organized at Camp Calhoun, Ky., December 9, 1861. Attached to 14th Brigade, Army of Ohio, December, 1861. 14th Brigade, 5th Division, Army of Ohio, to September, 1862. 14th Brigade, 5th Division, 2nd Army Corps, Army of Ohio, to November, 1862. 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, Left Wing 14th Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to January, 1863. 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 21st Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to April, 1863. District of Western Kentucky, Dept. of Ohio, to June, 1863, 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, 23rd Army Corps, Army of Ohio, to August, 1863. Unattached, Bowling Green, Ky., 1st Division, 23rd Army Corps, to October, 1863. 1st Brigade, 4th Division, 23rd Army Corps, to November, 1863. 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, Cavalry Corps, Dept. of Ohio, to April, 1864. 3rd Brigade, 4th Division, 23rd Army Corps, to June, 1864. 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, 23rd Army Corps, to August, 1864. 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 23rd Army Corps, to December, 1864.

SERVICE.--Duty at Calhoun, Ky., until February, 1862. Advance on Bowling Green, Ky., and Nashville, Tenn., February 10-25. Occupation of Nashville February 25. March to Savannah, Tenn., March 17-April 6.

• April 6-7, 1862 - Battle of Shiloh, Tennessee

Advance on and siege of Corinth, Miss., April 29-May 30. Buell's Campaign in Northern Alabama and Middle Tennessee June to August. March to Louisville, Ky., in pursuit of Bragg August 21-September 26. Pursuit of Bragg into Kentucky October 1-20. Battle of Perryville, Ky., October 8 (Reserve). Nelson's Cross Roads and Rural Hill October 18. March to Nashville, Tenn., October 20-November 7, and duty there until December 26. Advance on Murfreesboro December 26-30. Nolensville December 26-27. Battle of Stone's River December 30-31, 1862, and January 1-3, 1863. Ordered to Kentucky January 8, 1863. Duty at Bowling Green, Ky., until July.

• Regiment mounted and operating against guerrillas.
• May 2-6, 1862 - Expedition from Bowling Green, Kentucky to the Tennessee State Line

Woodburn and South Union May 13. At Glasgow, Ky., July to September. March to Knoxville, Tenn., and Burnside's Campaign in East Tennessee September to November. Philadelphia October 24. Leiper's Ferry, Holston River, October 27. Knoxville Campaign November 4 to December 23. Rockford and near Loudon November 14. Lenoir Station, Stock Creek and Holston River November 15. Near Knoxville November 16. Siege of Knoxville November 17-December 5. About Bean's Station December 9-13. Russellville December 10. Bean's Station December 13, 14 and 15. Rutledge December 16. Blain's Cross Roads December 16-19. Scout to Bean's Station December 29-30. About Dandridge January 26-28, 1864. Fair Garden January 27. Moved to Mt. Sterling, Ky., February, 1864.

• Dismounted and march to Knoxville, Tenn.
• Duty there and at Crossing of the Hiawassee operating against Wheeler and guarding Sherman's communications until June.
• June 8-September 8, 1864 - The Atlanta Campaign
  • Joined Sherman at Kingston, Ga.
  • Operations about Marietta and against Kenesaw Mountain June 10-July 2.
  • Lost Mountain June 15-17.
  • Muddy Creek June 17.
  • Noyes Creek June 19.
  • Cheyney's Farm June 22.
  • Olley's Creek June 26-27.
  • Assault on Kenesaw June 27.
  • Nickajack Creek July 2-5.
  • Chattahoochie River July 6-17.
  • Peach Tree Creek July 19-20.
  • July 22-August 25, 1864 - Siege of Atlanta, Georgia
  • Utoy Creek August 5-7.
  • Flank movement on Jonesboro August 25-30.
  • Battle of Jonesboro August 31-September 1.
  • Lovejoy Station September 2-6.
• Operations against Hood in North Georgia and North Alabama October 1-26.
• Moved to Nashville, thence to Pulaski, Tenn.
• Ordered to Louisville, Ky., November 14; thence to Bowling Green, Ky., and duty there until December.
• Mustered out December 16, 1864.

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Regiment Statistical Information

• Regiment lost during service 2 Officers and 45 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 3 Officers and 214 Enlisted men by disease. Total 264.

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Sources

• Dyer, Frederick H. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. The Dyer Publishing Company (Des Moine, 1908). (Pages 703, 715, 846, 1202)