3rd Kentucky Infantry

== Regimental History and Service Record ==
* July 5, 1861 - Organized at Camp Boone, Montgomery County, Tennessee
* September 20, 1861 - (I) Company F re-designated the 1st Kentucky Artillery Battery at Bowling Green, Kentucky
* April 6-7, 1862 - Shiloh
* April-June 1862 - Corinth Campaign
* May 15, 1862 - Companies L and M created by assignment of the:
** 12th Tennessee Infantry / Company E
** 22nd Tennessee Infantry / Company F
** Company N subsequently assigned
* May 18-July 27, 1862 - Vicksburg Bombardments
* August 5, 1862 - Baton Rouge
* December 5, 1862 - Coffeeville
* December 27-29, 1862 - Chickasaw Bayou
* April-July 1863 - Vicksburg Campaign
** May 16, 1863 - Champion Hill
* March 10, 1864 - Regiment mounted
* March 25, 1864 - Paducah
* February-March 1864 - Meridian Campaign
* April 12, 1864 - Fort Pillow
* June 10, 1864 - Brice's Cross Roads
* November 3-5, 1864 - Johnsonville
* November-December 1864 - Franklin-Nashville Campaign
* March 22-April 24, 1865 - Wilson's Raid
* May 4, 1865 - Surrendered at Meridian, Mississippi
DESIGNATIONS
* September-October 1861 - Department #2 / Central Geographical Division of Kentucky
* October 1861-February 1862 - Department #2 / Central Army of Kentucky / Buckner's Division / Kentucky Brigade
* February-March 1862 - Department #2 / Central Army of Kentucky / Reserve / Kentucky Brigade
* March-June 1862 - Department #2 / Army of the Mississippi / Reserve Corps / Kentucky Brigade
* June-July 1862 - Department #2 / District of the Mississippi / Breckinridge's Division / Kentucky Brigade
* July-August 1862 - Department #2 / District of the Mississippi / Breckinridge's Command / Ruggles' Division / Thompson's Brigade
* October 1862 - Department #2 / District of the Mississippi / Lovell's Division / Rust's Brigade
* October 1862-January 1863 - Army of the Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana / 1st Corps / Tilghman's Division / Baldwin's Brigade
* October 1862-January 1863 - Army of the Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana / 1st Corps / Tilghman's Division / Baldwin's Brigade
* January-February 1863 - Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana / Loring's Division / Rust's Brigade
* March 1863 - Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana / 3rd Military District / Rust's Brigade
* March-April 1863 - Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana / 3rd Military District / Buford's Brigade
* April-May 1863 - Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana / Loring's Division / Buford's Brigade
* May-July 1863 - Department of the West / Loring's Division / Buford's Brigade
* July 1863-January 1864 - Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana / Loring's Division / Buford's Brigade
* January-March 1864 - Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and East Louisiana / Loring's Division / Buford's Brigade
* March-November 1864 - Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and East Louisiana / Forrest's Cavalry Corps / Buford's Division / Thompson's/Crossland's/Lyon's/Crossland's Brigade
* November 1864-January 1865 - Army of Tennessee / Forrest's Cavalry Corps / Buford's Division / Crossland's Brigade
* March-May 1865 - Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and East Louisiana / Forrest's Cavalry Corps / Crossland's Brigade
== Regimental Roster ==
* First Commander: Lloyd Tilghman (Colonel)
* Benjamin M. Anderson (Major, Lieutenant Colonel)
* T.T. Barnett (Major, Lieutenant Colonel)
* James H. Bowman (Major)
* Gustavus A.C. Holt (Lieutenant Colonel, Colonel)
* Alfred Johnston (Major, Lieutenant Colonel)
* William P. Johnston (Major)
* Al. McGoodwin (Major)
* Albert P. Thompson (Major)
== Regiment Statistical Information ==
== Legacy ==
== Notes ==
== Sources == 
* Davis, William C., The Orphan Brigade: The Kentucky Confederates Who Couldn't Go Home
* George, Henry, History of the Third, Seventh, Eighth, and Twelfth Kentucky, C.S.A.
* (Pages 5, 34-35)
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