Kentucky 16th Volunteer Infantry, Company D (Union)
27/01/1862
Organized - Kentucky 16th Volunteer Infantry, Company D - Kentucky
05/08/1864
Battle - Utoy Creek - Fulton County, Georgia
In the days following Ezra Church, Gen. William T. Sherman ordered Generals George Thomas and John Schofield to keep testing and pressuring the Rebels in their front. With his artillery bombarding Atlanta, Sherman pursued his plan of inching his army's right flank southward toward the Macon & Western Railroad between Atlanta and East Point. His hope was "to draw the enemy out of Atlanta by threatening the railroad below." Sherman was confident that by thinning and extending his lines, shifting Thomas'…READ MORE
15/07/1865
Mustered Out - Kentucky 16th Volunteer Infantry, Company D - Kentucky
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regiment -Kentucky 16th Volunteer Infantry (Union)
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