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17th Kentucky Cavalry Regiment

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17th Kentucky Cavalry Regiment
ActiveApril 25, 1865 - September 20, 1865
CountryUnited States
AllegianceUnion
BranchCavalry
Military unit

The 17th Kentucky Cavalry Regiment was a cavalry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Service

The 17th Kentucky Cavalry Regiment was organized at Russellville, Kentucky and mustered in for one year. It mustered in under the command of Colonel Samuel F. Johnson.

The regiment was attached to Military Department of Kentucky and assigned to duty at Hopkinsville, Kentucky, and in southern Kentucky, along the Louisville and Nashville Railroad.

The 17th Kentucky Cavalry mustered out on September 20, 1865.

Casualties

The regiment lost no members during service.

Commanders

  • Colonel Samuel F. Johnson

See also

References

  • Dyer, Frederick H. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion (Des Moines, IA: Dyer Pub. Co.), 1908.
Attribution
  • Public Domain This article contains text from a text now in the public domain: Dyer, Frederick H. (1908). A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. Des Moines, IA: Dyer Publishing Co.
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