53rd Kentucky Mounted Infantry Regiment

53rd Kentucky Mounted Infantry Regiment
53rd Kentucky Mounted Infantry Regiment
Active	September 1864 to September 17, 1865
Country	United States
Allegiance	Union
Branch	Mounted infantry
Engagements	Battle of Saltville

The 53rd Kentucky Mounted Infantry Regiment was a mounted infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Service

The 53rd Kentucky Mounted Infantry Regiment was organized at Covington, Kentucky and mustered in September 1864 under the command of Colonel Clinton J. True.

The regiment was attached to Military District of Kentucky and Department of Kentucky, to September 1865.

The 53rd Kentucky Mounted Infantry mustered out of service September 17, 1865, in Louisville, Kentucky.

Detailed service

Guard duty along the Kentucky Central Railroad between Lexington and Cincinnati. Scouting in central Kentucky and operating against guerrillas until November 1864. Moved to Crab Orchard, Kentucky, November 24, and joined General Stoneman. Stoneman's Raid into southwest Virginia December 10–29. Near Marion, Virginia, December 17–18. Saltville, Virginia, December 20–21. Capture and destruction of salt works. Operating against guerrillas at various points in Kentucky by detachments until September 1865.

Casualties

The regiment lost a total of 49 men during service; 1 officer and 8 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded, 40 enlisted men died of disease.

Commanders

Colonel John H. Grider

Fifty-third Infantry (Mounted).—Colonel, Clinton J. True; Lieut.-Colonel, W. C. Johnson; Major, James G. Francis.

References

Dyer, Frederick H. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion (Des Moines, IA: Dyer Pub. Co.), 1908.

Attribution

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.