5th Regiment, Kentucky Cavalry

HISTORICAL NOTES: The Kentucky 5th Cavalry Regiment was organized during the summer of 1862 with men recruited in the central section of Kentucky. It was attached to Buford's Brigade and skirmished in Tennessee and Kentucky. Later it fought with J.H. Morgan, and many of its members were captured at Buffington Island on July 19 and the remaining part at New Lisbon on July 26, 1863. The regiment was not reorganized. OFFICERS: Colonel D. Howard Smith, Lieutenant Colonels Churchill G. Campbell and Preston Thomson, and Major Thomas Y. Brent, Jr. ASSIGNMENTS: Buford's Brigade SERVICE: Perryville (October 8, 1862)
Green River/Tebb's Bend Ky 4 July 1863
Lebanon Ky 5 July 1863
Shepherdsville Ky 6 July 1863
Brandenburg Ky 6 July 1863
St. Mary's Ky 6 July 1863
Brandenburg, Ky 8-9 July 1863
Corydon Ind 9 July 1863
Salem, Ind. 10 July 1863
Madison, Ind 11 July 1863
Roster:
The roster of this unit contains the names of 1603 men.

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