Home / Civil War Genealogy / Kentucky / 8th Kentucky Infantry
8th Kentucky Infantry
Company Unknown
Frank A Owen - Private
No comments
Contact Name: robert caudle
Contact Email: Show Email
Date Added: 7/30/2004

Company A
James Madison Chandler - Private
No comments
Contact Name: Mark Chandler
Contact Email: Show Email
Date Added: 2/22/2018

Company B
J J Begley - Sergeant
Buried in Kapark Cemetery, Newton county, Arkansas
Contact Name: Dwight Goldman
Contact Email: Show Email
Date Added: 8/16/2013

Company B
William L. Howard - 3rd Sergeant
Great-Great-Grandfather
William Howard enlisted as a private and ended the war as a 3rd sergeant. No records of ever being wounded. Captured at Fort Donelson, sent to Camp Morton, Indianapolis, Indiana, Exchanged with 8th Kentucky Infantry (later to become 8th Kentucky Mounted Infantry). Joined General Nathan Bedford Forrest in March of 1864. Fought in Brice's Crossroads, Franklin, Tennessee, covered the retreat of the Army of Tennessee after the disastrous Battle of Nashville, fought at Selma, Alabama and surrendered with General Forrest at Gainesville, Alabama.
Contact Name: Gary Stier
Contact Email: Show Email
Date Added: 1/28/2007

Company B
B. F. Hutchinson - Private
Wounded at Ft. Doneldson. I asume he was evacuwated to a hospital just before the surrender of the fort. for he was not captured there but was wounded. Shortly thereafter he Joined company 'B' 2nd(Woodward's)Kentucky Cavalry where he serve until Honarably discharged in late 1862.
Contact Name: Miles Ward
Contact Email: Show Email
Date Added: 12/11/2008

Company B
George washington Murphy - Private
No comments
Contact Name: michele tynes
Contact Email: Show Email
Contact Homepage: micheletynes7@gmail.com
Date Added: 11/22/2015

Company C
James Melford Davidson - Private
Taken prisoner at Fort Donelson and later paroled.
Contact Name: Jeffrey Davidson
Contact Email: Show Email
Date Added: 4/8/2011

Company C
Robert Harrison Fristoe - Captain
No comments
Contact Name: Bradford Blaine
Contact Email: Show Email
Date Added: 2/28/2013

Company C
Francis Marion McNeill - Private
Private Francis Marion McNeill was captured at the Battle of Paducah and sent to Camp Chase Ohio.
Contact Name: Donald A. McNeill
Contact Email: Show Email
Date Added: 12/22/2004

Company C
Hector R. McNeill - Private
Private Hector McNeill was killed in action at Fort Donnelson in February, 1862.
Contact Name: Donald A. McNeill
Contact Email: Show Email
Date Added: 12/22/2004

Company C
James Nelson McNeill - Private
Private James Nelson McNeill died at the Alton Prison Hospital on January 4, 1865. He was captured at the Battle of Harrisburg Mississippi in July on 1864.
Contact Name: Donald A. McNeill
Contact Email: Show Email
Date Added: 12/22/2004

Company C
William Daniel McNeill - Private
Private William Daniel McNeill survied the War Between the States and died in 1919 in the Hopkinsville, Kentucky.
Contact Name: Donald A. McNeill
Contact Email: Show Email
Date Added: 12/22/2004

Company C
William Henry McNeill - Private
Private William Henry was severely wounded in the Battle of Tishamingo Creek Mississippi on June 10, 1864. The regiment was the 8th Kentucky Mounted Infantry at this time.
Contact Name: Donald A. McNeill
Contact Email: Show Email
Date Added: 3/28/2004

Company D
jacob coffman bennett - 2nd Lieutenant
At Fort Donaldson resigned from his rank and went back to the front as a private and was captured, later escaped and became captain of co a in Johnson's 10th ky partisan rangers cavalry csa . One of the six officers who escape with Gen Morgan from the Ohio State Prison.
Contact Name: Mr Kem Dowell Coe
Contact Email: Show Email
Date Added: 8/31/2008

Company G
James Stallons - Private
Cousin
Contact Name: Clifton Boyd
Contact Email: Show Email
Date Added: 12/11/2008

Company G
Joseph Stallons - Private
Cousin
Contact Name: Clifton Boyd
Contact Email: Show Email
Date Added: 12/11/2008

Company G
Reuben Stallons - Private
Great Great Great Grandfather.
Contact Name: Clifton Boyd
Contact Email: Show Email
Date Added: 12/10/2008

Company I
Henry Clay Edwards - Private
Captured at Ft Donelson a POW at Camp Morton Ind. Exchanged at Vicksburg.His unit Consolidated with the 12 Kentucky Cav later. I believe he was captured at the Battle of Nashville he took the Oath on Feb 1 1865. He was 16 when he joined at Keesburg, Logan Co KY.
Contact Name: Larry E Fugate
Contact Email: Show Email
Date Added: 12/10/2005

Company I
William Milton Patton - Private
He was captured while on Morgan's Ohio raid sent to Camp Douglas. He later received a pension and a pow medal from the state of Tennessee. While trying to escape the Union ambush his horse fell on him pinned him and broke both legs.
Contact Name: William Patton Gaffney
Contact Email: Show Email
Date Added: 9/26/2009

Company K
Peter Cain - Private
He was in the 40 Tennessee regiment until it was split up in 1862. He was then in the 8th Ky mounted infantry.He survived the war and died in Bardstown Ky in 1891.
Contact Name: Michael Cain
Contact Email: Show Email
Date Added: 2/12/2011

An error has occurred. This application may no longer respond until reloaded. Reload 🗙