2nd Kentucky Infantry (U)

Regimental History and Service Record

Organized at Pendleton, Ohio, May and June, 1861. Moved to the Kanawha Valley, West Va., July 10. Attached to Kanawha Brigade, West Va., to October, 1861. District of the Kanawha, West Va., to January, 1862. 22nd Brigade, Army of the Ohio, to February, 1862. 22nd Brigade, 4th Division, Army of the Ohio, to September, 1862. 22nd Brigade, 4th Division, 2nd Corps, Army of the Ohio, to November, 1862. 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, Left Wing 14th Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to January, 1863. 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 21st Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to October, 1863. 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 4th Army Corps, to June, 1864.

SERVICE.---Campaign in West Virginia July to October, 1861.

• July 6-17, 1861 - The West Virginia Campaign
  • Red House July 13 (Cos. "A," "B," "D," "F" and "K").
  • July 16, 1861 - Skirmish at Barboursville, West Virginia

Scarrytown July 17. Gauley's Bridge September 1. Operations in Kanawha Valley October 19-November 16. Attack on Gauley by Floyd's Batteries November 1-9. Gauley Bridge November 10. At Charlestown, W. Va., December 4 to January 24, 1862. Moved to Louisville, Ky.; thence to Bardstown February 5. March to Nashville, Tenn., February 14-March 12. March to Savannah, Tenn., March 13-April 5.

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

Advance on and siege of Corinth, Miss., April 29-May 30. Phillips' Creek, Widow Serratt's, May 21. Bridge Creek, before Corinth, May 28. Occupation of Corinth May 30. Pursuit to Booneville May 31-June 6. Buell's Campaign in North Alabama and Middle Tennessee June to August, March to Louisville, Ky., in pursuit of Bragg August 21-September 25. Pursuit of Bragg to Loudon, Ky., October 1-22.

• October 8, 1862 - Battle of Perryville, Kentucky
• October 10-22 - Pursuit from Perryville to London, Kentucky

Camp Wild Cat October 17. Destruction of Salt Works at Goose Creek October 23-24. March to Nashville, Tenn., October 24-November 9. Duty at Nashville until December 26. Advance on Murfreesboro December 26-30. Lavergne December 26-27. Battle of Stone's River December 30-31, 1862, and January 1-3, 1863. Duty at Murfreesboro and Cripple Creek until June. Expedition to Woodbury April 2. Action at Snow Hill, Woodbury, April 3. Middle Tennessee (or Tullahoma) Campaign June 24-July 7. At Manchester July 9 to August 16.

• August 16-September 22, 1863 - The Chickamauga Campaign
  • Pea Vine Creek, Ga., September 10.
  • Lee and Gordon's Mills September 11-13.
  • September 19-September 20, 1863 - Battle of Chickamauga, Georgia
• September 24-October 27, 1863 - Siege of Chattanooga, Tennessee

Reopening of Tennessee River October 26-29. At Bridgeport, Ala., October 28, 1863, to January 26, 1864. (A Detachment at Ringgold Gap, Ga., November 27, 1863, and on Demonstration on Dalton February 22-27, 1864. Near Dalton February 23. Tunnel Hill, Buzzard's Roost Gap and Rocky Faced Ridge February 23-25.)

• May 1-June 3, 1864 - The Atlanta Campaign
  • May 8-11, 1864 - Demonstration against Rocky Faced Ridge, Georgia
  • At Ooltewah, Ga., until May 17, and at Resaca until June 3.
  • Ordered home June 3.
  • Operations against Morgan in Kentucky until June 19.
  • July 22-August 25, 1864 - Siege of Atlanta, Georgia
  • Mt. Sterling June 9.
  • Mustered out June 19, 1864.

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Regiment Statistical Information

• Regiment lost during service 3 Officers and 74 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 1 Officer and 87 Enlisted men by disease. Total 165.

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Sources

• Dyer, Frederick H. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. The Dyer Publishing Company (Des Moine, 1908). (Pages 701, 703, 704, 715, 733, 846, 860, 862, 970, 1198)