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Sixth Kentucky Infantry.
Hazen's Brigade —
T. J. Wood's Division--Fourth Corps.
| companies. | killed and died of wounds. | died of disease, accidents, in Prison, &c. | Total Enrollment. |
| Officers. | Men. | Total. | Officers. | Men. | Total. |
| Field and Staff | 1 | | 1 | 2 | | 2 | 13 |
| Company | A | 2 | 14 | 16 | | 4 | 4 | 97 |
| | B | 1 | 6 | 7 | 1 | 11 | 12 | 109 |
| | C | 2 | 8 | 10 | | 11 | 11 | 91 |
| | D | | 11 | 11 | | 14 | 14 | 93 |
| | E | 1 | 11 | 12 | | 7 | 7 | 89 |
| | F | | 6 | 6 | 1 | 10 | 11 | 89 |
| | G | 1 | 15 | 16 | 1 | 13 | 14 | 97 |
| | H | | 11 | 11 | | 11 | 11 | 93 |
| | I | 1 | 13 | 14 | | 10 | 10 | 86 |
| | K | 1 | 10 | 11 | | 5 | 5 | 103 |
| Totals | 10 | 105 | 115 | 5 | 96 | 101 | 960 |
115 killed == 11.9 per cent.
Total of killed and wounded, 433; died in Confederate prisons (previously included), 14.
| battles. | K. & M. W. | battles. | K. & M. W. |
| Shiloh, Tenn. | 23 | Rocky Face Ridge, Ga. | 2 |
| Readyville, Tenn. | 1 | Resaca, Ga. | 9 |
| Sinking Spring, Ky. | 1 | Adairsville, Ga. | 1 |
| Stone's River, Tenn. | 23 | Dallas, Ga. | 4 |
| Woodbury, Tenn. | 1 | Kenesaw Mountain, Ga. | 9 |
| Chickamauga, Ga. | 28 | Peach Tree Creek, Ga. | 1 |
| Missionary Ridge, Tenn. | 4 | Atlanta, Ga. | 4 |
| Guerrillas | 2 | Place unknown | 2 |
Present, also, at Siege of
Corinth;
Hoover's Gap;
Jonesboro.
notes.--Mustered into the
United States service on December 24, 1861, at Camp Sigel,
Jefferson county, Kentucky.
It was assigned immediately to the Department of the Cumberland, and its active service commenced.
It was placed in
Hazen's Brigade of
Nelson's Division, in which command it fought at
Shiloh, losing 10 killed, and 93 wounded, out of about 450 in action.
In that battle the regiment, under command of
Colonel Whitaker, made a gallant fight; it captured there three pieces of artillery, the
Colonel cutting down one of the cannoniers with a bowie-knife, just taken from a captured man. After sharing in the siege operations about
Corinth, the regiment participated in the long, wearisome marches of
Buell's Army in the
summer and
fall of 1862, and after marching through
Northern Alabama,
Tennessee, and
Kentucky, was engaged at the
battle of Stone's River.
It was then in
Palmer's Division, its loss in that battle amounting to 13 killed, 90 wounded, and 10 missing,
Lieutenant-Colonel George T. Colton being among the killed.
The regiment encountered its hardest fighting and severest loss at
Chickamauga, where, out of a small number present, it lost 12 killed, 95 wounded, and 11 missing. During the
Atlanta campaign the Sixth was in
Hazen's (2d) Brigade,
T. J. Wood's (3d) Division, Fourth Corps, and was prominently engaged in all the battles of that command.
It was mustered out on November 2, 1864, its term of service having expired.
The recruits and reeinlisted men with unexpired terms, remaining in the field, were transferred to the Fourth Kentucky Mounted Infantry.
