11th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.)

Creation Date

1861-12-09

Dissolution Date

1864-12-01

Entity Type

Organization

Organized at Camp Calhoun in McLean County, Kentucky. Mustered into service on December 12, 1861. Mustered out of service at Bowling Green, Warren County, Kentucky, on December 16, 1864. Recruits and veterans were transferred to the 6th Veteran Cavalry Regiment. Commander(s): Colonel Percival "Pierce" Butler Hawkins, Colonel Smoloff Palace Love, and Lieutenant Colonel Erasmus L. Mottley.

Frederick Henry Dyer, A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion, (Des Moines: Dyer Publishing Company, 1908), p. 148.
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 2 (Frankfort: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), 824-40, 925.

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