Kentucky Civil War Union Units A to Z

The information in this list of Kentucky Military Units comes from the Civil War Soldiers and Sailors web site (CWSS). That web site can also be searched by the name of a soldier.


 * Independent Battery A, Kentucky Light Artillery (Union) Organized at Camp Joe Holt, Kentucky, from Louisville Legion July, 1861, as Stone's Battery, and mustered in at Camp Muldraugh's Hill, Kentucky, September 27, 1861 Duty at San Antonio, Texas, and at Victoria, Texas, until November. Mustered out November 17, 1865.


 * Independent Battery B, Kentucky Light Artillery (Union) Organized at Camp Dick Robinson, Kentucky, as Company "D," 3rd Kentucky Infantry, but mustered in as a Battery October 8, 1861. Ordered to Louisville, Kentucky, and mustered out November 16, 1864.


 * Independent Battery C, Kentucky Light Artillery (Union) Commenced organizing at Lebanon, Kentucky, May, 1863. Morgan's attack on Lebanon, Kentucky, July 3, 1863. Battery captured. Reorganized at Louisville, Kentucky, September 10, 1863. Ordered to Little Rock, Arkansas, and post duty there until July. Mustered out July 26, 1865.


 * Independent Battery E, Kentucky Light Artillery (Union) Organized at Camp Nelson, Kentucky, October to December, 1863. Attached to District of North Central Kentucky, 1st Division, 23rd Army Corps, Dept. of Ohio, to November, 1863. District of Somerset, Kentucky, 1st Division, 23rd Army Corps, to January, 1864. District of Southwest Kentucky, Dept. of Ohio, to April, 1864. 4th Brigade, 1st Division, District of Kentucky, 5th Division, 23rd Army Corps, to December, 1864. Garrison, Lexington, Kentucky, District of Kentucky, to August, 1865. Duty at Lexington and Camp Nelson, Kentucky, until August, 1865. Mustered out August 1, 1865.


 * Rockcastle and Lincoln County Home Guards, Kentucky (Union) "Compendium of the War of the Rebellion" by Frederick H. Dyer contains no history for this unit.


 * Patterson's Independent Company, Kentucky Infantry (Union) Organized at Camp Haskins, Ky., October, 1861. Mustered out January 22, 1865.


 * Simmonds' Battery, Kentucky Light Artillery (Union) Organized at Pendleton, Ohio, from Company "E," 1st Kentucky Infantry, June 3, 1861. Mustered out July 20, 1865.


 * Unassigned Kentucky Colored (Union) "Compendium of the War of the Rebellion" by Frederick H. Dyer contains no history for this unit.


 * Unassigned Drafted Men, Kentucky (Union) "Compendium of the War of the Rebellion" by Frederick H. Dyer contains no history for this unit.


 * Unassigned Kentucky Volunteers (Union) "Compendium of the War of the Rebellion" by Frederick H. Dyer contains no history for this unit.


 * Ward's Independent Company, Kentucky Cavalry (Union) "Compendium of the War of the Rebellion" by Frederick H. Dyer contains no history for this unit.


 * Wolford's Cavalry, see 1st Regiment, Kentucky Veteran Cavalry (Union)