The 49th Kentucky Volunteer Mounted Infantry Regiment was a mounted infantry

Mounted infantry

Mounted infantry were soldiers who rode horses instead of marching, but actually fought on foot . The original dragoons were essentially mounted infantry...

 regiment

Regiment

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 that served in the Union Army

Union Army

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 during the American Civil War

American Civil War

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Service

The 49th Kentucky Mounted Infantry was organized at Camp Nelson

Camp Nelson

Camp Nelson can refer to*Camp Nelson Civil War Heritage Park in Jessamine County, Kentucky, 1-2 miles north of the National Cemetery.*Camp Nelson Confederate Cemetery in Lonoke County, Arkansas*Camp Nelson National Cemetery in Jessamine County, Kentucky...

 and mustered in for one year on September 19, 1863 under the command of Colonel

Colonel (United States)

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 John G. Eve.

The regiment was attached to District of Somerset, Kentucky, 1st Division, XXIII Corps, Department of the Ohio

Department of the Ohio

The Department of the Ohio was an administrative military district created by the United States War Department early in the American Civil War to administer the troops in the Northern states near the Ohio River.General Orders No...

, to January 1864. District of Southwest Kentucky, 1st Division, XXIII Corps, to April 1864. 4th Brigade, 1st Division, District of Kentucky, 5th Division, XXIII Corps, Department of the Ohio, to July 1864. Camp Nelson, District of Kentucky, to December 1864.

The 49th Kentucky Mounted Infantry mustered out of service at Lexington, Kentucky

Lexington, Kentucky

Lexington is the second-largest city in Kentucky and the 63rd largest in the US. Known as the "Thoroughbred City" and the "Horse Capital of the World", it is located in the heart of Kentucky's Bluegrass region...

 on December 26, 1864.

Detailed service

Moved to Somerset, Kentucky, October 28, 1863, and duty in that vicinity until January 1864. Moved to Camp Burnside, Kentucky, January 3–4, and duty there until August 1864. At Lexington August and at Camp Nelson until October. Ordered to Tennessee October 1 and railroad guard duty near Murfreesboro and between Wartrace and Mill Creek until November. At Lexington, Kentucky, until December.

Casualties

The regiment lost a total of 76 men during service; 1 enlisted man killed, 1 officer and 74 enlisted men died of disease.

See also

• List of Kentucky Civil War Units
• Kentucky in the Civil War
  Kentucky in the Civil War
  Kentucky was a border state of key importance in the American Civil War. President Abraham Lincoln recognized the importance of the Commonwealth when he declared "I hope to have God on my side, but I must have Kentucky." In a September 1861 letter to Orville Browning, Lincoln wrote "I think to lose...
  
  

External links

• Alphabetical roster of the 49th Kentucky Mounted Infantry taken from Thomas Speed's Union Regiments of Kentucky