• General Notes

  The KY Adjutant General's Report (US Vol. 1, 1866) confirms that William H. Newton served as a Pvt. in Co. G, 7th Ky. Inf. He enlisted 9/18/1861 at Camp Dick Robinson, and died 4/30/1862 at Camp Halleck, TN.
  In the summer of 1861, Union authorities empowered U. S. Navy Lieutenant William "Bull" Nelson to recruit loyal men for the United States Army inside Kentucky. On July 15, 1861, Nelson arrived in Lancaster in Garrard County. He selected several men to raise regiments, one of whom was Theophilus Toulmin Garrard, a state senator and Mexican War veteran. Garrard (pronounced gar'-rud, with a hard g) began recruiting for his Third Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment. State authorities soon changed the designation to the Seventh Kentucky, but the men who made up the regiment resented the change and often used the earlier number well into 1863.
  
  Colonel Garrard collected his men at Camp Dick Robinson in Garrard County, rendezvous point for several regiments raised under Nelson. Here the men learned the rudiments of drill and suffered through shortages of food, uniforms, and other supplies. A measles epidemic added to their overall discomfort. On September 22, 1861, General George H. Thomas, later known as the Rock of Chickamauga, mustered the Seventh Kentucky into federal service. The 7th was the only three-year regiment from Kentucky to carry over 1,000 men on its roster.
  During late 1861 and early 1862, the 7th was shifted several times within the organizational charts of the forces in eastern Kentucky, then commanded by Major General Don Carlos Buell. By spring, the regiment was part of Carter's 24th Brigade of General G. W. Morgan's 7th Division of the Army of the Ohio. Morgan concentrated his force at Cumberland Ford in preparation for an advance on Cumberland Gap. He brought in fresh provisions, including the first fresh meat the men of the 7th had tasted in months. An initial reconnaissance to the Gap resulted only in a small skirmish.
  
  
  7th Regiment Kentucky Infantry, USA
  "One of the first Recruited in the State. Old 3rd," Organized at Camp Dick Robinson, Ky., September 22, 1861. Attached to Thomas' Command, Army of the Ohio, to January, 1862. 12th Brigade, 1st Division, Army of the Ohio, to March, 1862. 24th Brigade, 7th Division, Army of the Ohio, to October, 1862. 3rd Brigade, District of West Virginia, Dept. of the Ohio, to November, 1862. 2nd Brigade, 9th Division, Right Wing 13th Army Corps (Old), Dept. of the Tennessee, to December, 1862. 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, Sherman's Yazoo Expedition, to January, 1863. 2nd Brigade, 9th Division, 13th Army Corps, Army of the Tennessee, to February, 1863. 1st Brigade, 9th Division, 13th Army Corps, to July, 1863. 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 13th Army Corps, Dept. of the Tennessee, to August, 1863; and Dept. of the Gulf to November, 1863. Plaquemine, District of Baton Rouge, La., Dept. of the Gulf, to March, 1864, 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 13th Army Corps, to June, 1864. 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 19th Army Corps, to December, 1864. District of Baton Rouge, La., to April, 1865. Provisional Brigade, District of Baton Rouge, Dept. of the Gulf, to March, 1866.
  
  SERVICE.--Moved to Mt. Vernon, Ky., October, 1861, and duty there until March, 1862. Action at Camp Wild Cat, or Rockcastle Hills, October 21, 1861. Reconnaissance toward Cumberland Gap and skirmishes March 21-23, 1862. Cumberland Gap Campaign March 28-June 18. Occupation of Cumberland Gap June 18 to September 16. Evacuation of Cumberland Gap and retreat to Greenupsburg, in the Ohio River, September 16-October 3. Expedition to Charleston, West Va., October 21-November 10. Ordered to Memphis, Tenn., November 10; duty there until December 20. Sherman's Yazoo Expedition December 20, 1862, to January 2, 1863. Chickasaw Bayou December 26-28. Chickasaw Bluff December 29. Expedition to Arkansas Post, Ark., January 3-10, 1863. Assault on and capture of Fort Hindman, Arkansas Post, January 10-11. Moved to Young's Point, La., January 15-23, and duty there until March. Moved to Milliken's Bend March 8. Operations from Milliken's Bend to New Carthage March 31-April 17. James Plantation, near New Carthage, April 6 and 8. Dunbar's Plantation, Bayou Vidal, April 15. Expedition from Perkins' Plantation to Hard Times Landing April 25-29, Phelps' and Clark's Bayous April 26. Choctaw Bayou and Lake Bruin April 28. Battle of Thompson's Hill, Port Gibson, May 1. Champion's Hill May 16. Big Black River Bridge May 17. Siege of Vicksburg May 18-July 4. Assaults on Vicksburg May 19 and 22, Advance on Jackson July 5-10. Near Clinton July 8. Near Jackson July 9. Siege of Jackson July 10-17. Ordered to New Orleans, La., August 13. Duty at Carrollton, Brashear City and Berwick until October. Western Louisiana Campaign October 3-November 20. Duty at Plaquemine until March, 1864. Moved to Baton Rouge, La., March 23, and duty there until October. At mouth of White River and Duvall's Bluff, Ark., October 6-November 10. At Baton Rouge until May 1, 1865; and at Clinton until March, 1866. Mustered out March 11, 1866.
  
  Regiment lost during service 3 Officers and 40 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 2 Officers and 274 Enlisted men by disease. Total 319.
  
  Source - A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion by Frederick H. Dyer (Part 3)
  

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