CONFEDERATE KENTUCKY TROOPS
6th Regiment, Kentucky Cavalry
- Overview:
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6th Cavalry Regiment was organized during the summer of 1862 with men from the central
and eastern section of Kentucky. It was mustered into Confederate service in September. For a
time the unit skirmished in Kentucky attached to Buford's Brigade, then it fought with J.H.
Morgan. Most 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 J. Warren Grigsby, Lieutenant Colonel Thomas W. Napier, and Major
William G. Bullitt.
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