I am looking for more information on Private Lee Carmichael, Company 1, 3rd Ky. Mounted Infantry. He was wounded at Shiloh. He was imprisoned at Camp Dennison. He died there and at first buried there. in 1869 his body was moved to Spring Grove Cemetery in Cincinnati, Ohio. He buried in Section 21, C, 279.
Would like to find out more on his service record and about Ky. Mounted Infantry.
Two Battle reports for the 3rd KY MTD. The first one doesn't say where, but reads like it could have been Shiloh ?
Third Kentucky Mounted Infantry
Report of Col. Gustavus A. C. Holt, Third Kentucky Mounted Infantry.
Arriving at the regiment on the night of the 14th instant, resumed
command, and with the brigade, moved on the Verona and Tupelo road
to the front on the succeeding morning at early daylight. After advancing
nearly three miles the command was dismounted, prepared for action,
and thrown into line of battle on the right of the road in the field.
Skirmishers were deployed and moved in advance of the line, and after
driving the enemy's skirmishers to the timber beyond the field, near
three-quarters of a mile the place where the line began, the advance
came in contact with his line of battle in position in the skirts of the
woods, and were driven back on our line, with some loss. Our line was
then halted to receive the attack. It came, and was easily driven back,
leaving his dead on the field. Remaining in the field until 2 p. m.,
without shade of any kind and but poorly, supplied with water,
one-fourth of the regiment was compelled to leave the field or be carried
off by the Infantry Corps, through exhaustion and overheat; and when
the command was again mounted to pursue the enemy not more than
three-fourths of the regiment were able to take the saddle. We then
pursued the enemy four or five miles, came up with him, finding him
in line on a small creek. The Seventh Kentucky Regt. was
dismounted and moved forward, and then the Third Kentucky Regiment
to its support. After advancing some 400 yards, over an open field,
under a sharp fire, we took position on the slope of a hill and in the
woods on the right, and after maintaining a severe contest for near half
an hour were repulsed and compelled to retire and take position a little
to the left and rear of our former position. Becoming exhausted from
labor and overheat, I left the field and was taken to the field hospital,
and within half an hour the regiment was remounted and then encamped
for the night at a creek a mile or two in the rear.
Accompanying this is a list of the casualties of this regiment.*
Respectfully submitted.
G. A. C. HOLT,
Col. Third Kentucky Regt.
Capt. W. D. McKAY,
Acting Assistant Adjutant-Gen.
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Report of Capt. S. Paine Ridgway, Third Kentucky
Mounted Infantry.
HDQRS. THIRD KENTUCKY REGT.,
July 19, 1864.
I have the honor to submit the following report of the late engagements
with the enemy, at and near Harrisburg, Miss:
On the 9th instant, Col. Holt having been detached with two
companies of the regiment, I assumed command of the eight remaining
companies and moved, with the brigade, toward Ripley, Miss. Before
reaching this point the direction was changed, and we moved toward
Pontotoc, Miss., which point we reached early on the morning of the
10th instant, camping about eight miles southeast of the town.
On the 11th instant the enemy appeared in our front, and on the 12th
instant the regiment was engaged singly with him, killing and wounding
19 and capturing 1, and losing only 1 wounded. The enemy then
disappeared from our immediate front, and on the morning of the 13th
instant we started in pursuit. When near Pontotoc we joined the column,
then moving down the Verona road, and in the evening of this day came
up with the enemy, but this regiment was not in action. Bivouacked at
the forks of the Tupelo and Okolona and Pontotoc roads until 11 o'clock
at night, when the regiment moved with the brigade and picketed on the
Tupelo and Pontotoc road, being in line of battle during the night.
On the morning of the 14th instant the regiment moved forward with the
brigade and attacked the enemy in his works at Harrisburg, making a
charge across an open field of half a mile in width. Having reached the
summit of a small hill immediately in front of and about forty or fifty
yards from the enemy's works the command was forced to fall back,
being exposed to the fire of three batteries and three lines of infantry in
front and on both flanks, and being entirely unsupported on the right.
On the evening of the same day the regiment moved with the brigade
and picketed one of the Tupelo and Verona roads. The strength of the
regiment on the field in the last-named engagement was 145 rank and
file, and the loss was 92 killed, wounded, and prisoners.
Col. Holt returned on the night of the 14th instant and assumed
command on the morning of the 15th instant.
Respectfully submitted.
S. P. RIDGWAY,
Capt., Cmdg. Third Kentucky Regt.
Capt. W. D. McKAY,
Acting Assistant Adjutant-Gen.
Source: Official Records
PAGE 338-77 KY., SW. VA., TENN., MISS., ALA., AND N. GA. [CHAP. LI.
[Series I. Vol. 39. Part I, Reports. Serial No. 77.]
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