The Kentucky
Calvary Brigade is a brigade-level organization
of reenactors and other living historians who portray the horse soldiers
of the famous Kentucky brigade in the Confederate Army of Tennessee,
of the American War Between the States (1861-1865). Its "members" are
independently organized Cavalry and Artillery reenacting groups who
have come together to work in a coordinated body for certain events
through the campaign season. The member units are from Kentucky,
Ohio, Indiana, and Tennessee.
The Brigade is an "umbrella" organization composed of a number
of independent reenactor units. Individual troopers hold membership
in their respective independent units and the unit holds membership
in the brigade. This is very similar to the actual War structure, in
which individual cavalry troopers belonged to their regiments and battalions,
and those units in turn comprised the Brigade.
The Historical Kentucky Cavalry Brigade
The Kentucky Cavalry Brigade was a brigade of horse soldiers in
the famous Confederate Army of Tennessee, in the Cavalry Corps of
Gen. Joseph 'Fighting Joe' Wheeler.
The name derives from the fact that the unit was primarily Kentuckian in its
make-up, and because in the later part of the war all of the commanders were
also Kentuckian. It was often unofficially and informally referred to as "the
Kentucky Cavalry Brigade". It had a long and illustrious history in the
great conflict, and comported itself with much honor and accomplishment on the
field. It was never captured or surrendered in combat, and only voluntarily turned
itself in to Federal authorities after discharging its last assigned duty, which
was the escort of Confederate president Jefferson Davis as he fled from the collapse
of the Southern war effort in the late spring of 1865. During the war its most
prominent roles were played in the 1863 battle of Chickamauga; in the 1864 Atlanta
Campaign, and March to the Sea; and the 1865 Carolinas Campaign, culminating
in the last great battle of the war at Bentonville, North Carolina, in which
it opened the fight with an advance on Union forces.
Click here to visit the Kentucky
Calvary Brigade
The Battle Honors of the Kentucky Cavalry Brigade
Chickamauga
Missionary Ridge
Charleston, TN
Altanta Campaign
Dug Gap
Snake Creek Gap
Ringgold Gap
Resaca
Cassville Station
Peachtree Creek
Battle of Atlanta
Jonesboro
March to the Sea
Louisville, GA
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