Kentucky Regiments Involved in the Civil War
The listing below provides links to listings of Union and Confederate regiments that included troops from Kentucky, as well as the regiment's organization location and date. Please keep in mind that, due to the destruction of military records both during and after the War, sources for these listings is sketchy, and is not complete.
Kentucky
Union Regiments - Cavalry
1st Regiment, Cavalry
Organized: Liberty, Burkesville and Monticello, KY (10/28/1861)
2nd Regiment, Cavalry
Organized: Muldraugh's Hill, KY (9/9/1861)
3rd Regiment, Cavalry
Organized: Camp Calhoun and Clay County, Kentucky (12/13/1861)
4th Regiment, Cavalry
Organized: Louisville, Kentucky (12/24/1861)
5th Regiment, Cavalry
Organized: Columbus, KY (12/1861)
6th Regiment, Cavalry
Organized: Central Kentucky (7/1862)
7th Regiment, Cavalry
Organized: Various locations, mustered at Paris, Kentucky (8/16/1862)
8th Regiment, Cavalry
Organized: Russell(s)ville, Kentucky (8/13/1862)
9th Regiment, Cavalry
Organized: Emminence, Kentucky (8/22/1862)
10th Regiment, Cavalry
Organized: Covington, Lexington, Crab Orchard, Kentucky (9/8/1862)
11th Regiment, Cavalry
Organized: Harrodsburg, Kentucky (7/1862) - companies A,C,D and E; regiment organized in Louisville, KY
12th Regiment, Cavalry
Organized: Caseyville and Owensboro, Kentucky (11/17/1862)
13th Regiment, Cavalry
Organized: Columbia (12/22/1863)
14th Regiment, Cavalry
Organized: Mt. Sterling and Irvin, Kentucky (8/21/1862)
15th Regiment, Cavalry
Organized: Owensboro, Kentucky (10/1862)
16th Regiment, Cavalry
Organized: Paducah, Kentucky (9/1863)
17th Regiment, Cavalry
Organized: Russell(s)ville, Kentucky (4/25/1865)
Munday's Cavalry Battalion
Organized: Lexington, Kentucky (12/1861)
Kentucky
Confederate Regiments - Cavalry
Although Kentucky never seceded from the Union, it was admitted to the Confederacy on December 10, 1862. Records regarding these military units are incomplete.
1st Cavalry Battalion
Organized: location unknown (1861)
1st Cavalry Battalion ("King's")
Organized: location unknown (1861)
1st Cavalry Battalion, Mounted Rifles
Organized: Kentucky/Southwestern Virginia (3/1862)
1st Special Cavalry Battalion
Organized: from members of John Hunt Morgan's old command (1864 - disbanded 1865)
1st Cavalry Regiment
Organized: location unknown (10/19/1861)
2nd Cavalry Battalion
Organized: location unknown (1863)
2nd Cavalry Battalion, Mounted Rifles
Organized: location unknown (3/12/1862)
2nd Special Cavalry Battalion
Organized: from members of John Hunt Morgan's old command (1864 - disbanded 1865)
2nd Cavalry Regiment
Organized: from John Hunt Morgan's Cavalry Squadron/Tennessee (1862)
3rd Cavalry Battalion
Organized: Failed to complete organization
3rd Cavalry Battalion, Mounted Rifles ("1st Kentucky Mounted Rifles")
Organized: location unknown (11/29/1862)
3rd Cavalry Battalion, Mounted Rifles ("Jessee's")
Organized: location unknown (1862)
3rd Special Cavalry Battalion
Organized: from John Hunt Morgan's old command (11/10/1864 - disbanded 1865)
3rd Cavalry Regiment
Organized: location unknown (1862)
4th Special Cavalry Battalion
Organized: from John Hunt Morgan's old command (11/10/1864 - disbanded 1865)
4th Cavalry Regiment
Organized: Mosgrove (near Owenton), Kentucky (9/10/1862)
5th Cavalry Regiment
Organized: location unknown (9/9/1862)
6th Cavalry Regiment
Organized: Stanford, Kentucky (9/8/1862)
7th Cavalry Regiment ("3rd Cavalry Regiment")
Organized: location unknown (9/1/1862 - captured 1863)
8th Cavalry Regiment
Organized: location unknown (9/10/1862 - captured 1863)
9th Cavalry Regiment ("4th Mounted Rifles Regiment")
Organized: from Stoner's and Breckinridge's Cavalry Battalions at Alexandria, Tennessee (12/17/1862)
10th Cavalry Regiment, Partisan ("10th Cavalry Regiment")
Organized: location unknown (8/1862)
11th Cavalry Regiment ("7th (Chenault's) Cavalry Regiment")
Organized: location unknown (8/10/1862)
12th Cavalry Regiment ("1st Kentucky and Tennessee Mounted Rifles")
Organized: Tupelo, Mississippi (4/1863 - 9/1863)
13th Cavalry Regiment ("10th Mounted Rifles," "10th Infantry Regiment," "10th Cavalry Battalion," "10th Mounted Rifles," "11th Mounted Rifles," or "11th Mounted Infantry Regiment")
Organized: location unknown (11/2/1862 - disbanded 1865)
14th Cavalry Regiment ("10th (May's) Cavalry Regiment")
Organized: from May's Kentucky and Virginia Mounted Rifles Battalion (7/1863 - disbanded 1865)
15th Cavalry Regiment ("2nd (Woodward's) Cavalry Regiment")
Organized: location unknown (4/7/1862)
Breckinridge's Cavalry Battalion ("9th Cavalry Battalion")
Organized: location unknown (8/1862)
Chenowith's Cavalry Regiment
Organized: location unknown (10/1864)
Hollis' Cavalry Regiment
Organized: location unknown (10/1864)
May's Cavalry Battalion, Mounted Rifles
Organized: from Kentucky and Virginia (1863)
Morgan's Cavalry Regiment ("14th (Richard C. Morgan's) Cavalry Regiment")
Organized: location unknown (1863)
Morgan's Cavalry Squadron
Organized: Bowling Green, Kentucky (10/27/1861)
Morris' Cavalry Regiment, Mounted Rifles
Organized: Failed to complete organization
Patton's Cavalry Battalion, Partisan Rangers
Organized: Failed to complete organization
Stoner's Cavalry Battalion
Organized: location unknown (9/1862-10/1862)
Sypert's Cavalry Regiment
Organized: location unknown (1864)
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Source Materials
A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. (vols. 1-3) Frederick H. Dyer. New York: Sagamore Press, Inc. 1959. Call number: 973.7 Dyer
Compendium of the Confederate Armies: Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, The Confederate Units and the Indian Units. Stewart Sifakis. New York: Facts on File. 1995. Call number: K973.742 Sifa
Kentucky Encyclopedia. Kleber, John E., Thomas D. Clark, Lowell H. Harrison, James C. Klotter. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1992. Call number: K 976.9003 Kent
Thanks to the Kentucky Department of Military Affairs Research Branch for assistance with this publication.