The 1st Regiment Kentucky Volunteers, CSA was an
infantry regiment that served in the
Confederate States Army during the
American Civil War. It was the only Kentucky regiment in the Confederate service to serve in the
Army of Northern Virginia.
Service
The 1st Regiment Kentucky Volunteers, CSA was organized in August 1861, by consolidation of three battalions of Kentucky infantry, two stationed at
Harper's Ferry,
Virginia (now in
West Virginia). One battalion, the 1st Kentucky Battalion (Duncan's) was under the command of Major
Henry Blanton Duncan (b. 1827) and the 2nd Battalion of Kentucky Sharpshooters was under the command of Major John D. Pope. The 3rd Kentucky Battalion commanded by Major Benjamin M. Anderson had been stationed at
Richmond, Virginia
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. All three battalions were consolidated into the 1st Regiment Kentucky Volunteers at
Manassas Junction, Virginia
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. Majors Pope and Anderson were returned to their companies as captains. Duncan had resigned at Winchester in June 1861. Col. Thomas Claiborne, of Tennessee, had assumed command of the 1st battalion until the formation of the regiment.
The regiment had ten companies. The two battalions arrived in Virginia at Harper's Ferry, later moving to Winchester. The two battalions moved with Joe Johnston's
Army of the Shenandoah to join Beauregard's
Army of the Potomac at Manassas Junction, but arrived the day following the
First Battle of Bull Run under the command of Major Thomas Claiborne. With Duncan, who submitted his resignation on August 13, gone, the two battalions merged. In August a third battalion of three companies, then around