Organization

16th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A)

1863-09 to 1864-03-25

Organized at Paducah, Kentucky, in September, 1863. Consolidated with the 12th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) on Mach 25, 1864. Commander(s): Colonel Quintus C. Shanks, Colonel Eugene W. Crittenden, Lieutenant Colonel Alexander W. Holeman, and Lieutenant Colonel James T. Bramlette (as the 12th). Mustered out with the 12th on August 23, 1865.

Bibliography

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 352-353, 403.
Frederick H. DyerA Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Compiled and Arranged from Official Reports of the Federal and Confederate Armies, Reports of the Adjutant Generals of the Several States, the Army Registers, and Other Reliable Documents and Sources(DeMoines, IA: Dyer Publishing Company, 1908), p. 1195.

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16th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A). Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32281592 (November 12, 2026).

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