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Subject: Martin.Eli.Civilwar.Casey.MILITARY-Other


"wild Riders" By M. Tarrent Civilwar Company B, 1st regiment, Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Casey County KyArchives Military Other

"Wild Riders" By M. Tarrent
The First Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry was engaged in many battles during the Civil War and fought with a determination that soon earned the soldiers the nickname "Wild Riders".  At the National Guard Armory in Frankfort, Kentucky we found a document referencing the exploits of the First Cavalry.  In the document it is reported that the Wild Riders engaged in a great number of battles in which loss was sustained.  Among them were the engagements at Wild Cat, Mill Springs and Somerset, Kentucky; Lebanon, Philadelphia; Stone River, Knoxville and Shiloh, Tennessee; Hillsboro and Lost Mountain, Georgia.
Eli Martin was honorably discharged from the Army at Camp Nelson, Kentucky on December 31, 1864.  Eli was wounded either in Tennessee or Georgia, and at the time of his discharge he suffered poor eysight and deafness, both service connected according to the National Archives Civil War Military Records and Pension

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