7th Regiment, Kentucky Cavalry - Confederate Army


 

Company B

  • Private Peter Vardeman

Morgan's Men

  • Private Peter Vardeman


7th Regiment, Kentucky Cavalry

was organized in September, 1862, using Gano's Texas Cavalry Battalion as its nucleus. The unit skirmished in Tennessee and Kentucky, then fought with J.H. Morgan, Most of its men were captured at

Buffington Island

on July 19, and the rest at New Lisbon on July 26, 1863. The regiment was not reorganized. Colonel Richard M. Gano, Lieutenant Colonel J.M. Huffman, and Major Theophilus Steele were in command.


Information compiled by David Vardiman from the

National Park Service's Sailors and Soldiers surname search database

and

Jack Vardaman's narrative.

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