Fifth Infantry Regiment

5th Infantry Regiment, assembled during the late summer of 1861, included Freeman's Kentucky Infantry Battalion. Its members were raised in the counties of Pendleton, Breathitt, Morgan, Magoffin, Bath, Owen, Grant, Jessamine, Henderson, Harrison, Shelby, and Franklin. Being a twelve-month unit, when it became time to reenlist some of its members refused and were transferred to the 9th Kentucky Regiment. Later men of the 5th did reenlist for the duration of the war. It became part of the Orphan Brigade or Louisville Legion. The regiment reported 134 casualties in the Battle of Shiloh, then was active at Baton Rouge before being assigned to Kelly's and J. H. Lewis' Brigade, Army of Tennessee. It was prominent at Chickamauga and later took an active part in the Atlanta Campaign. In the fall of 1864 it was mounted, aided in the defense at Savannah, and fought in the Carolinas. The unit had 91 men disabled at Chickamauga, totaled 201 men and 165 arms in December, 1863, and surrendered on April 26, 1865. Its field officers were Colonels Hiram Hawkins, Andrew J. May, and John S. Williams; Lieutenant Colonels John W. Caldwell and George W. Conner' and Majors Richard Hawes and William Mynheir.

Kentucky Cavaliers in Dixie
Reminisces of A Confederate Cavalryman
By George Dallas Mosgrove
ISBN 0-8032-8253-2

Page 244

Captain Thomas E. Moore

Company D, made up of "boys" from Pendleton, Harrison, Bourbon, Kenton and Campbell Counties, was commanded by Captain Thomas E. Moore, of Bourbon, an officer sans peur et sans reproche. Of medium size, delicate, neat in dress, prepossessing in appearance, quiet and courteous, Captain Moore was one for the most gentlemanly officers in the brigade; a man of whom no officer or soldier ever spoke a disrespectful word. His appearance suggested a dry goods merchant rather than a bluff captain of cavalry, but beneath that quiet exterior was the indomitable spirit of the bravest of cavaliers. He seemed alike impervious to fear or excitement, and in the din and roar of battle he was the same calm, unimpassioned man as when conversing with comrades around the bivouac fire. In a desperate hand-to-hand saber fight with a Michigan regiment at Mossy Creek, Tenn., he was severely wounded in the arm, and although the wound was painful and slow to heal he placed the arm in a sling and continued to perform every duty as nonchalantly as if nothing had happened.

NOTES: Moore, Thomas Edwin 1831 -1921; served as Captain in CSA 4th Kentucky Calvary from September, 1862 thru end of War; was severely wounded in fighting near Nashville, TN. http://www.shawhan.com/veteransite.html

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The Adjutant General's Report
Roll of Company A, 5th Regiment Infantry,
Kentucky Volunteers, Confederate States Army
Transcribed by Bonnie Snow

* indicated the soldier was listed more than once.

NOTE: Allowance should be made for those marked "Deserted." Many Left to join other commands without waiting for the usual formalities or transfer. Others were absent without leave and returned to duty, while others were cut off in the enemy's lines and could not return and marked "Deserted" erroneously.

NOTE: This Company "A" was organized into 5th Regiment Infantry, December 12, 1862, and took letter "A."

Beulah Wiley Franks
Grant County Coordinator, KY/ALHN