55th Regiment, Kentucky Infantry

Title: 55th Regiment, Kentucky Infantry
Allegiance: United States of America
Description: Organized at Covington November, 1864. Attached to Military District of Kentucky, Dept. Ohio and Dept. of Kentucky, to September, 1865. Regiment mounted and assigned to duty in counties bordering on the Kentucky Central Railroad till December, 1864. Stoneman's Raid into Southwest Virginia December 10-29. Near Marion December 17-18. Saltsville December 20-21. Capture and destruction of salt works. Operating against guerrillas in counties west of the Kentucky Central Railroad and the Counties of Campbell, Bracken, Mason, Fleming, Nicholas, Harrison and Pendleton, east of the Kentucky Central Railroad till September, 1865. Mustered out September 19, 1865.; Regiment lost during service 7 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 2 Officers and 29 Enlisted men by disease. Total 38. --From 'Battle Unit Details,' National Park Service
Has site: Covington (Ky.)
Began: Nov 1864
Ended: 19 Sep 1865
Years duration: 1864-1865
Participant in: Civil War, 1861-1865
Source: Battle Unit Details: 55th Regiment, Kentucky Infantry

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