Enlistment Date: 06 October 1861
Distinguished Service: DISTINGUISHED SERVICE Side Served:
Union State Served: Kentucky Unit Numbers: 777 777
Service Record: Enlisted as a Sergeant 1st Class on 06 October
1861 Enlisted in Company E, 23rd Infantry Regiment Kentucky on 12 December
1861. Died Company E, 23rd Infantry Regiment Kentucky on 12 April 1862 in
Lebanon, KY (Samuel Baker family records say Lebanon,
Tennessee)
Twenty-third Infantry. -- Col., Marcellus Mundy; Lieut.-Cols.,
John P. Jackson, James C. Foy, George W. Northup; Majs., Thomas H.
Hamrick, William Boden.
This regiment was organized at Camp King near Covington. The
companies came from that part of the state one being from Mason county,
one from Pendleton, one from Boone the others from Campbell and
Kenton.
The regiment was in camp until Feb., 1862, when it went to
Lexington, thence beyond Lebanon to the Rolling fork, thence it marched
to Bardstown and Louisville where it went on board the steamer "Diana" and
was transported to Nashville, where it remained during the spring. In August
it was in a severe fight at Round Mountain and lost 4 men.
The unit fought throughout the South after that until the
close of the war.