Units Raised at Camp Nelson

Rally 'Round the Colors!

US Army Units Organized at Camp Nelson

White Regiments

8th Tennessee Infantry Regiment, Companies E-K
Organized: November 11, 1862 – August 11, 1863, Mustered Out: June 30, 1865
Colonel Felix A. Reeve

8th Tennessee Cavalry Regiment
Organized: August 1863, Mustered Out: September 11, 1865
Colonel Samuel K. N. Patton

9th Tennessee Cavalry Regiment, Companies B and C
Organized: August 13, 1863, Mustered Out: September 11, 1865
Colonel Joseph H. Parsons

49th Kentucky Mounted Infantry Regiment
Organized: September 19, 1863, Mustered Out: December 26, 1864
Colonel John G. Eve

11th Tennessee Cavalry Regiment, Companies A-D
Organized: May-October 1863, Mustered Out: January 9, 1865
Colonel Isham Young

1st Kentucky Light Artillery Regiment, Battery E
Organized: October-December 1863, Mustered Out: August 1, 1865
Captain John J. Hawe

47th Kentucky Mounted Infantry Regiment
Organized: October 5, 1863 –January 1864, Mustered Out: April 12, 1865
Colonel Andrew H. Clark

Black Regiments

13th United States Colored Heavy Artillery
Organized: June 23, 1864, Mustered Out: November 18, 1865
Colonel Jacob T. Foster

114th United States Colored Infantry
Organized: July 4, 1864, Mustered Out: April 2, 1867
Colonel Thomas D. Sedgwick

116th United States Colored Infantry
Organized: July 6-12, 1864, Mustered Out: January 17, 1867
Colonel William W. Woodward

12th United States Colored Heavy Artillery
Organized: July 15, 1864, Mustered Out: April 24, 1866
Colonel Norman S. Andrews

5th United States Colored Cavalry Regiment
Organized: October 24, 1864, Mustered Out: March 20, 1866
Colonel James Brisbin

6th United States Colored Cavalry Regiment
Organized: October 24, 1864, Mustered Out: April 15, 1866
Colonel James Wade

124th United States Colored Infantry
Organized: January 1-April 27, 1865, Mustered Out: December 20, 1867
Colonel F. H. Bierbower

119th United States Colored Infantry
Organized: January 18-May 16, 1865, Mustered Out: April 27, 1866
Colonel Charles G. Bartlett