6th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.)

Creation Date

1861-12-24

Dissolution Date

1864-11-02

Entity Type

Organization

Organized at Camp Sigel in Jefferson County, Kentucky. Mustered into service on December 24, 1861. Mustered out of service on November 2, 1864. Veterans were transferred to the 4th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment. Commanding Officer(s): Colonel Walter C. Whitaker and Colonel George T. Shackelford.

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1 (Frankfort: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), 718-49.
Joseph R. Reinhart, A History of the 6th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry U.S.: The Boys Who Feared No Noise (Louisville: Beargrass Press, 2000).

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