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The regiment was attached to Thomas' Command, Camp Dick Robinson, Kentucky, to December 1861. 1st Division, Army of the Ohio, to March 1862. (5 companies attached to Garfield's 18th Brigade, Army of the Ohio, December 1861 to March 1862.)
The 1st Kentucky Cavalry was organized at Bowling Green, Kentucky and was mustered into the Confederate States Army on October 28, 1861. Commanded by Colonel Benjamin Hardin Helm the regiment briefly served in the Orphan Brigade before being brigaded with the 8th Texas Cavalry under the overall command of Joseph Wheeler.
2nd Cavalry Brigade k-3, w-1, m-0 = 3 Col Joseph Wheeler. 1st Alabama Cavalry: Col William Wirt Allen (w) 3rd Alabama Cavalry: Col James Hagan; 1st CS Cavalry: Ltc Charles S. Robertson; 6th CS Cavalry: Ltc James Pell; 8th CS Cavalry: Col William B. Wade; 2nd Georgia Cavalry (5 companies): Maj Caleb A. Whaley
Just before the attack, the companies from the 33rd Indiana were reinforced by 250 men of the 1st Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.) and a small number of home guards. [22] The Confederate regiments attacked the steep hill but after an hour of fighting the 11th Tennessee Infantry retreated. [ 22 ]
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 Confederate Heartland Offensive (August 14 – October 10, 1862), also known as the Kentucky Campaign, was an American Civil War campaign conducted by the Confederate States Army in Tennessee and Kentucky where Generals Braxton Bragg and Edmund Kirby Smith tried to draw neutral Kentucky into the Confederacy by outflanking Union troops under Major General Don Carlos Buell.
He led an unsuccessful campaign as a Republican candidate for the United States Senate in 1892. He was later elected as a Republican to the 53rd U.S. Congress (March 4, 1893 – March 3, 1895). He was an unsuccessful independent candidate for re-election in 1894 to the 54th U.S. Congress and thereafter returned to the practice of law.
Company G, 1st Regiment Louisiana Cavalry, C.S.A.: A Narrative. University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1986. Hall, Winchester. The Story of the Twenty–Sixth Louisiana Infantry in the Service of the Confederate States. No place of publication: no publisher listed, no date listed. Hughes, Jr., Nathaniel Cheairs.