# 11th Kentucky Infantry Regiment

The 11th Kentucky Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

## Service attachments

The 11th Kentucky Infantry Regiment was organized at Camp Calhoun in Calhoun, Kentucky, and mustered in for a three-year enlistment on December 9, 1861, under the command of Colonel Pierce Butler Hawkins.
The regiment was attached to a series of larger units over the course of the war:
* 14th Brigade, Army of the Ohio, December 1861
* 14th Brigade, 5th Division, Army of the Ohio.
* 14th Brigade, 5th Division, II Corps, Army of the Ohio, September 1862
* 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, Left Wing, XIV Corps, Army of the Cumberland, November 1862
* 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, XXI Corps, Army of the Cumberland, January 1863
* District of Western Kentucky, Department of the Ohio, April 1863
* 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, XXIII Corps, Army of the Ohio, June 1863
* Unattached, in Bowling Green, Kentucky, 1st Division, XXIII Corps, August 1863
* 1st Brigade, 4th Division, XXIII Corps, October 1863
* 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, Cavalry Corps, Department of the Ohio, November 1863
* 3rd Brigade, 4th Division, XXIII Corps, April 1864
* 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, XXIII Corps, June 1864
* 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, XXIII Corps, August 1864 to December 1864.
The 11th Kentucky Infantry mustered out of service on December 16, 1864.

## Service details

The unit was involved in major and minor engagements from 1862 through 1864.

### 1861

* Duty at Calhoun, Ky., until February 1862.

### 1862

* Advance on Bowling Green, Ky., and Nashville, Tenn., February 10–25.
* Occupation of Nashville February 25.
* March to Savannah, Tenn., March 17-April 6.
* Battle of Shiloh April 7.
* Advance on and siege of Corinth, Miss., April 29-May 30.
* Buell's Campaign in northern Alabama and middle Tennessee June to August.
* March to Louisville, Ky., in pursuit of Bragg August 21-September 26.
* Pursuit of Bragg into Kentucky October 1–20.
* Battle of Perryville, Ky., October 8 (reserve).
* Nelson's Cross Roads and Rural Hill October 18.
* March to Nashville, Tenn., October 20-November 7, and duty there until December 26.
* Advance on Murfreesboro December 26–30.
* Nolensville December 26–27.
* Battle of Stones River December 30–31, 1862 and January 1–3, 1863.
* 1863
* Ordered to Kentucky January 8, 1863. Duty at Bowling Green, Ky., until July. Regiment mounted and operating against guerrillas.
* Expedition to Tennessee state line May 2–6.
* Woodburn and South Union May 13.
* At Glasgow, Ky., July to September.
* March to Knoxville, Tenn., and Burnside's Campaign in eastern Tennessee September to November.
* Philadelphia October 24.
* Leiper's Ferry, Holston River, October 27.
* Knoxville Campaign November 4 to December 23.
* Rockford and near Loudon November 14.
* Lenoir Station, Stock Creek and Holston River November 15.
* Near Knoxville November 16.
* Siege of Knoxville November 17-December 5.
* About Bean's Station December 9–13.
* Russellville December 10.
* Bean's Station December 13, 14 and 15.
* Rutledge December 16.
* Blain's Cross Roads December 16–19.
* Scout to Bean's Station December 29–30.
* 1864
* About Dandridge January 26–28, 1864.
* Fair Garden January 27.
* Moved to Mt. Sterling, Ky., February 1864.
* Dismounted and marched to Knoxville, Tenn. Duty there and at crossing of the Hiawassee operating against Wheeler and guarding Sherman's communications until June.
* Joined Sherman at Kingston, Ga. Operations about Marietta and against Kennesaw Mountain June 10-July 2.
* Lost Mountain June 15–17.
* Muddy Creek June 17.
* Noyes Creek June 19.
* Cheyney's Farm June 22.
* Olley's Creek June 26–27.
* Assault on Kennesaw June 27.
* Nickajack Creek July 2–5.
* Chattahoochie River July 6–17.
* Peachtree Creek July 19–20.
* Siege of Atlanta July 22-August 25.
* Utoy Creek August 5–7.
* Flank movement on Jonesboro August 25–30.
* Battle of Jonesboro August 31-September 1.
* Lovejoy's Station September 2–6.
* Operations against Hood in northern Georgia and northern Alabama October 1–26.
* Moved to Nashville, thence to Pulaski, Tenn.
* Ordered to Louisville, Ky., November 14; thence to Bowling Green, Ky., and duty there until December.

## Casualties

The regiment lost a total of 264 men; 2 officers and 45 enlisted men were killed or mortally wounded, while 3 officers and 214 enlisted men died of disease.

## Commanders

* Colonel Pierce Butler Hawkins
* Colonel S. P. Love
* Major Erasmus L. Mottley