2020-01 Putnal
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Autograph Document Signed, "H. Hawkins Col" 5th Kentucky Mounted Infantry, 1p. folio, Hd. Qrs. 5th Ky. Regt, January 28, 1865, addressed to General Cooper, A.I. General, and reads: "The undersigned officers 5th Kentucky Mounted Infantry, Respectfully recommend that Major General Wheeler's system of revised 'Cavalry Tactics' be adopted by the War Department for the use of the Cavalry and mounted infantry of the Confederate Army. The work is a decided improvement upon the old U.S. System of Cavalry tactics, and is eminently meritorious…" Signed by the following: Hiram HAWKINS, Colonel, enlisted April 18, 1862. Thomas Benton COOK, 1st Lieut & Adjt. Enlisted September 10, 1862, WIA at Dallas, Georgia, May 28, 1864. Received Honorable Mention in orders at Chickamauga, GA. William Tyler Berry SOUTH, (1842-1932) Captain, enlisted October 25, 1861, surrendered in Washington, Georgia, May 6, 1865. T.J. HENRY, Capt. Co "C" A.C. COPE, Capt. C. D., enlisted October 9, 1862. Joseph M. ABBOTT, Capt. Co "E", enlisted September 15, 1862. J.C. ROBB, 2nd Lt. Comdg. Co. 'K', enlisted October 12, 1862 WIA Chickamauga, September 20, 1863. Henry Clay MUSSELMAN, 1st Lt. Comdg. Co. 'F', enlisted September 1, 1862. A. Kellar ANDERSON, Lt. Comdg. Co. 'I', first served with the 1st Kentucky, then enlisted with the 5th Ky. on July 1, 1862. Wounded 9/20/1863 Chickamauga, GA R.H. KAVANAUGH, Lt. Comdg Co. 'A', enlisted as private September 10, 1862. William MYNHEIR, Major, enlisted October 21, 1862. Wounded in action at Chickamauga September 20, 1863. The 5th Kentucky Infantry was recruited during the summer of 1861. 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 of Savannah, and fought in the Carolina. The unit had 91 men disabled at Chickamauga, totaled 201 men and 165 arms in December 1863, and surrendered with Johnston on April 26, 1865.
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