Civil War Confederate Veteran Cert 3rd Kentucky Mounted Inf Gen Forrest Regiment
ORIGINAL Civil War Confederate Veterans Association of Kentucky membership certificate for Corporal Western B Brian 3rd Kentucky Infantry. The 3rd Ky Inf had a very interesting history during the Civil War and was with General Nathan Bedford Forrest the last year or the war.
This is an original membership certificate and still has great color and is still in the original antique wooden back frame. It has a very small spot on the upper left hand corner.
The CS flag on the right which is whited out is just as nice as the 2nd National. It comes with all of Western Brians Confederate service records. Kentucky Confederate items are getting very hard to find and one with a Gen Nathan Bedford connection are RARE. The 3rd Kentucky Infantry was organized in July 1861, at Camp Boone in Montgomery County, Tennessee, under the command of Colonel Lloyd Tilghman. At the Battle of Shiloh, the regiment was brigaded with the 4th Alabama Infantry, 31st Alabama Infantry, 4th Kentucky Infantry, 6th Kentucky Infantry, and 9th Kentucky Infantry.
In a charge on the Union Army lines, 174 men from the 3rd Kentucky Infantry were killed. All regimental officers were either killed or wounded.The regiment remained at Port Hudson, Louisiana until August 20, 1862, when it was ordered to Jackson, Mississippi. Breckinridge was ordered to take the 4th Kentucky Infantry, 6th Kentucky Infantry, and 9th Kentucky Infantry with him and report to General Braxton Bragg.
The 3rd Kentucky Infantry were en route to Bragg at Tullahoma, Tennessee when they were ordered to reinforce Lieutenant General John C. Pemberton in the defenses of Vicksburg, Mississippi. By 1864, the regiment's strength was severely depleted. The 3rd Kentucky Infantry was ordered to report to General Nathan Bedford Forrest.
Horses were unavailable, so the men followed Forrest on foot. The Kentucky troops that accompanied Forrest were divided into four brigades. The 3rd Kentucky Infantry was in the third brigade with the 7th Kentucky Infantry, and 8th Kentucky Infantry, commanded by Colonel A. On March 15, 1864 Forrest moved north toward Paducah, Kentucky.
Three miles from Paducah they encountered Union pickets and pushed them back to their camp on the outskirts of town. Under fire from a nearby fort, the Kentuckians moved through the streets of Paducah. The fort was discovered to be impenetrable, and a retreat was ordered. Colonel Thompson was killed by cannon fire while leading his troops. At some point in the campaign to Kentucky, the regiment was mounted, becoming the 3rd Kentucky Mounted Infantry. If you have any questions or need more info let me know. The item "Civil War Confederate Veteran Cert 3rd Kentucky Mounted Inf Gen Forrest Regiment" is in sale since Wednesday, March 22, 2017. This item is in the category "Collectibles\Militaria\Civil War (1861-65)\Civil War Veterans' Items". The seller is "ucvrelics" and is located in Demopolis, Alabama. This item can be shipped to United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Denmark, Romania, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Czech republic, Finland, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Estonia, Australia, Greece, Portugal, Cyprus, Slovenia, Sweden, Belgium, France, Ireland, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Italy, Germany, Austria, Mexico, New Zealand, Switzerland, Norway, Ukraine, Croatia, Chile, Colombia, Costa rica, Panama, Trinidad and tobago, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica.- Country/Region of Manufacture: United States