Munday's 1st Battalion Kentucky Cavalry was a
cavalry
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regiment
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that served in the
Union Army
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during the
American Civil War
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.
Service
Munday's 1st Battalion Kentucky Cavalry was organized at
Lexington, Kentucky
Lexington is a city in Kentucky, United States that is the county seat of Fayette County, Kentucky, Fayette County. By population, it is the List of cities in Kentucky, second-largest city in Kentucky and List of United States cities by popul ...
in December 1861 and mustered in for three years under the command of
Major
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Reuben Munday.
The regiment was attached to 12th Brigade,
Army of the Ohio
The Army of the Ohio was the name of two Union armies in the American Civil War. The first army became the Army of the Cumberland and the second army was created in 1863.
History
1st Army of the Ohio
General Orders No. 97 appointed Maj. Gen. Do ...
, to February 1862. 7th Division, Army of the Ohio, to October 1862.
Munday's 1st Battalion Kentucky Cavalry ceased when it was assigned to the
6th Kentucky Cavalry as Companies A, B, C, D, and E in October 1862.
Detailed service
Ordered to Lebanon, Kentucky, then to London January 8, 1862. Expedition from central Kentucky to the Cumberland River January 31-February 12. Flat Lick Ford, Cumberland River, February 14. Cumberland Gap Campaign March 28-June 18. Occupation of Cumberland Gap June 18 to September 17. Tazewell, Tennessee July 26. Operations about Cumberland Gap August 2–17. Tazewell August 6. Rogers' Gap August 16. Pine Mountain August 17. Red Bird Creek August 25. Richmond, Kentucky, August 30. Retreat from Cumberland Gap to the Ohio River September 17-October 3.
Commanders
* Major Reuben Munday
See also
*
6th Regiment Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry
The 6th Kentucky Cavalry Regiment was a cavalry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
Service
The 6th Kentucky Cavalry Regiment was originally organized in Lexington, Kentucky, from July to October 1862 as Munday's ...
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List of Kentucky Civil War Units
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Kentucky in the Civil War
Kentucky was a border state of key importance in the American Civil War. It officially declared its neutrality at the beginning of the war, but after a failed attempt by Confederate General Leonidas Polk to take the state of Kentucky f ...
References
* Dyer, Frederick H. ''A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion'' (Des Moines, IA: Dyer Pub. Co.), 1908.
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