5th Regiment Kentucky Volunteer Infantry The 5th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment , unofficially known as the Louisville Legion was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War . Service . The 5th Kentucky Infantry was mustered into the service at Louisville , Kentucky under the command of Colonel Lovell Harrison Rousseau . Recruits to the 5th Kentucky Infantry were promised a pay of $ 11 – $ 21 a month , in addition to clothes and lodging . After a year ' s enlistment , they were promised of land . Although a recruitment station was placed at the corner of 8th and Main in Louisville , the actual training took place across the Ohio River at Camp Joe Holt , in present - day Clarksville , Indiana . On July 1 , 1861 , 334 recruits were shipped to Camp Joe Holt as the first company . On September 17 , 1861 , the regiment left Camp Joe Holt , to stop Confederate forces from approaching Louisville . The regiment was attached to Rousseau ' s 1st Brigade , McCook ' s Command , at Nolin to November 1861 . 4th Brigade , Army of the Ohio , to December 1861 . 4th Brigade , 2nd Division , Army of the Ohio , to September 1862 . 4th Brigade , 2nd Division , I Corps , Army of the Ohio , to November 1862 . 3rd Brigade , 2nd Division , Right Wing , XIV Corps , Army of the Cumberland , to January 1863 . 3rd Brigade , 2nd Division , XX Corps , Army of the Cumberland , to October 1863 . 2nd Brigade , 3rd Division , IV Corps , to July 1864 . Unattached , 4th Division , XX Corps , to September 1864 . The 5th Kentucky Infantry mustered out of service on July 25 , 1865 . Detailed service . Moved to Muldraugh ' s Hill , Ky . , September 17 , 1861 , and duty there until October 14 . Duty at Bacon Creek and Green River until February 1862 . Marched to Nashville , Tenn . , February 17 - March 3 ; then marched to Savannah , Tenn . , March 16 - April 6 . Battle of Shiloh , April 6 – 7 . Advance on and siege of Corinth , Miss . , April 29 - May 30 . Bridge Creek May 27 . Duty at Corinth until June 10 . Buell ' s Campaign in northern Alabama and middle Tennessee June to August . Marched to Louisville , Ky . , in pursuit of Bragg August 21 - September 26 . Pursuit of Bragg into Kentucky October 1 – 15 . Dog Walk , Ky . , October 8 – 9 . Marched to Nashville , Tenn . , October 16 - November 7 , and duty there until December 26 . Kimbrough ' s Mills December 6 . Advance on Murfreesboro , Tenn . , December 26 – 30 . Nolensville December 26 – 27 . Battle of Stones River December 30 – 31 , 1862 and January 1 – 3 , 1863 . At Murfreesboro until June . Tullahoma Campaign June 22 - July 7 . Liberty Gap June 22 – 27 . Occupation of middle Tennessee until August 16 . Passage of Cumberland Mountains and Tennessee River and Chickamauga Campaign August 16 - September 22 . Battle of Chickamauga , September 19 – 20 . Siege of Chattanooga September 24 - November 23 . Reopening Tennessee River October 26 – 29 . Brown ' s Ferry October 27 . Battles of Chattanooga November 23 – 25 . Orchard Knob November 23 – 24 . Missionary Ridge November 25 . Pursuit to Graysville November 26 – 27 . Marched to relief of Knoxville November 28 - December 8 . Campaign in eastern Tennessee December 1863 to April 1864 . Atlanta Campaign May 1 to July 25 . Demonstration on Rocky Faced Ridge and Dalton May 5 – 13 . Battle of Resaca May 14 – 15 . Adairsville May 17 . Near Kingston May 18 – 19 . Near Cassville May 19 . Advance on Dallas May 22 – 25 . Operations on line of Pumpkin Vine Creek and battles about Dallas , New Hope Church , and Allatoona Hills May 25 - June 5 . Pickett ' s Mills May 27 . Operations about Marietta and against Kennesaw Mountain June 10 - July 2 . Pine Hill June 11 – 14 . Lost Mountain June 15 – 17 . Assault on Kennesaw June 27 . Ruff ' s Station , Smyrna Camp Ground , July 4 . Pace ' s Ferry July 5 . Chattahoochie River July 6 – 17 . Peachtree Creek July 19 – 20 . Siege of Atlanta July 22 – 25 . Ordered to Nashville , Tenn . , July 25 ; then to Louisville , Ky . Veterans moved to Nashville July 25 and duty there until January 1865 . Battle of Nashville , Tenn . , December 15 – 16 . Pursuit of Hood December 17 – 28 . Moved to Louisville , Pittsburgh , Philadelphia , New York , and Hilton Head , S . C . , and rejoined Sherman at Raleigh , N . C . , April 1865 . Bennett ' s House April 26 . Surrender of Johnston and his army . Marched to Washington , D . C . , via Richmond , Va . , April 29 - May 19 . Grand Review of the Armies May 24 . Moved to Louisville , Ky . , June . Casualties . The regiment lost a total of 302 men during service ; 8 officers and 149 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded , 2 officers and 143 enlisted men died of disease . Legacy . The Louisville Legion nickname was derived from an earlier Kentucky militia unit that was first constituted on January 21 , 1839 in Louisville , and was mustered into federal service for the Mexican - American War , from May 17 , 1846 , as the 1st Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment . It saw action in the Battle of Monterey . On May 17 , 1847 , in New Orleans , it was mustered out . Of the regiment ' s service during the Civil War , Gen . William Tecumseh Sherman wrote , " No single body of men can claim more honor for the grand result than the officers and men of the Louisville Legion of 1861 . " Ten years after the Civil War the Louisville Legion would again organize as the Kentucky State Guard ' s 1st Regiment of Infantry . In this incarnation it would take part in the French Eversole Feud and the Rowan County War . In the Spanish - American War it would be the first unit from Kentucky to reach Puerto Rico . Afterwards it would maintain the peace around Frankfort , Kentucky after the assassination of Governor William Goebel , and then patrol the Mexican border . The 138th Field Artillery and 149th Armor Brigade of the Kentucky National Guard are directly descended from the Louisville Legion .