5th Ky Mounted Infantry

My husband's great grandfather Miles Bishop served in Company G 5'th Ky Infantry unit, and also in Company A; 29'th Virginia Infantry, Confederate States Army. The following excerpt concerns the first infantry that Miles enlisted in on July 3, 1862. He was discharged from this troop in October 1862 at Hazel Green Kentucky.

5th Infantry Regiment, assembled during the late summer of 1861, included Freeman's Kentucky Infantry Battalion. Its members were raised in the counties of Pendleton, Breathitt, Morgan, Magoffin, Bath, Owen, Grant, Jessamine, Henderson, Harrison, Shelby, and Franklin. Being a twelve-month unit, when it became teim to reenlist some of its members refused and were transferred to the 9th Kentucky Regiment. Later men of the 5th did reenlist for the duration of the war. It became part of the Orphan Brigade or Louisville Legion. The regiment reported 134 casualties in the Battle of Shiloh , then was active at Baton Rouge before being assigned to Kelly's and J.H. Lewis' Brigade, Army of Tennessee. It was prominent at Chickamauga and later took an active part in the Atlanta Campaign. In the fall of 1864 it was mounted, aided in the defense at Savannah, and fought in the Carolinas. The unit had 91 men disabled at Chickamauga, totalled 201 men and 165 arms in December, 1863, and surrendered on April 26, 1865. Its field officers were Colonels Hiram Hawkins, Andrew J. May, and John S. Williams; Lieutenant Colonels John W. Caldwell and George W. Conner' and Majors Richard Hawes and William Mynheir.

The following battle description is one that Miles apparently was a part of as the date of this battle(August 5, 1862) is after the date he enlisted (July 3 1862), and before he was discharged from this unit (late October 1862).
Baton Rouge
Other Names: Magnolia Cemetery

Description: In an attempt to regain control of the state, Confederates wished to recapture the capital at Baton Rouge. Maj. Gen. John C. Breckinridge planned a combined land/water expedition with his corps and CSS Ram Arkansas. Advancing west from Camp Moore, the Confederate land forces, coming from the east, were only ten miles away on August 4. They reached the outskirts of the capital early in the morning, formed for an attack in two divisions, and began to drive back each Union unit they encountered. Then, Union gunboats in the river began shelling the Confederates. The Arkansas could have neutralized the Union gunboats, but her engines failed and she did not participate in the battle. Federal land forces, in the meantime, fell back to a more defensible line, and the Union commander, Brig. Gen. Thomas Williams, was killed soon after. The new commander, Col. Thomas W. Cahill, ordered a retreat to a prepared defensive line nearer the river and within the gunboats’ protection. Rebels assailed the new line, but finally the Federals forced them to retire. The next day the Arkansas’s engines failed again as she closed on the Union gunboats; she was blown up and scuttled by her crew. The Confederates failed to recapture the state capital.

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NAME	RANK	PICTURE
Hunter, James K.	Captain
Adkins, Joseph	Captain
Fannin, Peter M.	1^st Lieutenant
Thompson, Samuel W.	2^nd Lieutenant
Adkins, Samuel S.	2^nd Lieutenant
Carter, Greenville P.	3^rd Sergeant
Adkins, Straley	4^th Sergeant
Lucas, Harrison A.	4^th Sergeant
Murray, August W.	5^th Sergeant
Lewis, James	1^st Corporal
Lewis, James	3^rd Corporal
Eldridge, Issac	3^rd Corporal
Cassity, William H.	4^th Corporal
Adkins, James P.	Musician

PRIVATES
	Eldridge, Joshua	Lucas, Allen M.
Adkins, Noten	Eldridge, Issac	Montgomery, George
Adkins, Harrison	Frailey, Adam C	Miller, R. H..
Adkins, Straley	Greenwood. Henderson	McLanahan, Cornelius H.
Bumgardner, Nicholas Brown	Hanna, David H.	McLanahan, John
Brown, John	Horton, L. D.	Mays, Davidson
Bowling, Harvey M.	Howard, Jonathan A.	Pennington, Eli
Cock, Andrew J.	Hall, Pleasant
Cock, James	Jones, Jonothan W.
Cock, Gordon	Lewis Stephen

PRIVATES