22nd Kentucky Infantry

Ok. I think you’ve shared that book here before- a link perhaps? I think I remember looking through it but not much mention of Champion Hill and Big Black. Am I right about that? Or am I confusing it with something else?
 
Ok. I think you’ve shared that book here before- a link perhaps? I think I remember looking through it but not much mention of Champion Hill and Big Black. Am I right about that? Or am I confusing it with something else?
Post #3 has the link to his book on Archive. I won't be home until later today to check on it.
 
Effective strength numbers for various engagements of the 22nd Ky.

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Wow!! Thanks, that helps me!!
Grain of salt, my friend. I have some issues with some of the numbers. I know that two members of the 22nd were killed at Champion Hill that are not listed. One died at or near the battlefield and one at Edward's Station the day of the battle. Another had a leg amputated at the thigh and died June 4 at Barber Hospital. But I know there are a variety of reasons they are not listed as killed, but the killed column should be questioned a bit. Overall I think the strength numbers are pretty accurate as one would expect.

22nd Kentucky Volunteer Infantry
Phillip Mossman, Co. K -- Killed by shell wound to the head
William Howe, Co. I -- Gun shot to the head, died at Edward's Station
Solomon Parker, Co. A -- Wounded in right thigh, died June 4 at Barber Hospital
 
Thanks! If you have any “grains of salts” regarding Big Black - anything - i’d Appreciate it. I’m glad you feel good about the strength numbers listed in that document. Very insightful for me.
 
Wow!! Well done and congratulations!!

If you don't mind, What is the disposition of a Captain Thomas of the 22nd Kentucky. He is mentioned in the Official Records as being severely burned at Champion Hill. He must have been very popular with the men. I'd like to know what ever happened with him.
Here's another account of Capt. Evan D. Thomas' injury at Champion Hill. Published in Holmes County Republican by a member of the 16th Ohio, Corp. Theodore Wolbach.

"Late in the afternoon the divisions of Carr and Osterhaus were started rapidly after the retreating Confederates, who were crowding the road and wending through the bordering fields in their mad haste to get away from their elated and victorious pursuers. Minutes were precious and could not be wasted in brushing the dust from the uniforms or washing the sweat and powder-stains from the faces. Twilight and darkness came and burning wagons and other war material, fired by the exasperated foe, gave a lurid and inspiring tint to the thrilling scene of a mighty moving mass of men pressing rapidly westward.

"Rolling on in strange confusion,
Friend and foeman, foot and horse,
Like some wild and troubled torrent
Sweeping down its mountain course."

Some of the burning wagons were filled with ammunition, causing several dangerous explosions. In one of these, Capt. Thomas, of the 22nd Ky., was terribly scorched. His devoted comrades, loth to leave him to the uncertain care of strangers, wrenched a door from a building and tenderly bore him along with the marching column to our next bivouac, where he was left to be cared for appropriately. Many weeks afterward he came back to his regiment a badly disfigured man."
 
Sort of a cautionary tale to always keep digging to find truth, or at least acknowledge we may never really ever know what the truth is. Here is competing versions of the behavior of Nick Ember (Emper), who carried one of the flags of the 22nd in the charge at Chickasaw Bayou:

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Account of 22nd flag being torn.

“An exploding shell tore the flag of the 22d Kentucky into shreds. The color-bearer, a noble looking Hungarian commonly known as "Nick," frightened and bewildered, threw the staff away and would never afterward carry the colors. They were eagerly snatched up and carried through the fight by a young corporal, who was afterward rewarded for the act by a Lieutenancy.”

--The "Camp & Field" Articles by Theodore Wolbach, 16th Ohio Volunteer Infantry
http://www.mkwe.com/ohio/pages/H015-56.htm
 
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Does anyone know where Camp Prentice was? My grandfather John Meredith was there, but an internet search didn't turn up anything. Thanks.
 
Does anyone know where Camp Prentice was? My grandfather John Meredith was there, but an internet search didn't turn up anything. Thanks.
It was located a mile and a half outside of Frankfort where Blanton Acres is located. You can see it on the map by the red marker.

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Does anyone know where Camp Prentice was? My grandfather John Meredith was there, but an internet search didn't turn up anything. Thanks.
Do you have a lot of information on John Meredith? My records are incomplete on him. Relative age of 21 when he mustered in, discharged Dec. 20 1862 at Memphis, but I don't have reason for disability. I also did not find a pension application for him either.
 
Do you have a lot of information on John Meredith? My records are incomplete on him. Relative age of 21 when he mustered in, discharged Dec. 20 1862 at Memphis, but I don't have reason for disability. I also did not find a pension application for him either.
No, sadly I don't. I have only what you have. His marriage papers say he was born in Hart Co KY. But I can't find which Meredith family he came from. There are other John's with different birth dates. It took me years to find him and my grandmother. I guess new information had been added when I finally made the connection. John and America's daughter is living in the 1870 census with her aunt, America's sister in Ohio. America disappeared after the marriage when John left and so did John after Memphis. There is one John living in another state that may be him but he's married to somebody else and is listed as his first marriage. So I can't make a family connection for him at this time.
 
Was this was where he and the men were before he left for Louisa? I had no idea it was that close to Frankfort where he married America.
Yeah, Col. Lindsey recruited men from around Frankfort and camped them at Camp Prentice (named for one of the editors of the Louisville Journal). Lindsey and his recruits were in Frankfort from October to early December where they headed toward Louisa where it consolidated with another organization and became a full regiment and then named the 22nd Kentucky.
 
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