CONFEDERATE KENTUCKY TROOPS
5th Regiment, Kentucky Cavalry
- Overview:
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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. Its
commanders were Colonel D. Howard Smith, Lieutenant Colonels Churchill G. Campbell and
Preston Thomson, and Major Thomas Y. Brent, Jr.
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