Talk:5th Kentucky Infantry Regiment (Confederate)
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Flag
editI removed the image of the modern flag, which was adopted by Kentucky in 1918 and finalized in 1928. I'm not totally sure what flag they would have flown, but I doubt it would have been that. The more so when you consider that it uses the state seal, while the confederage government of Kentucky adopted a different seal. See File:Ky CSA Seal.svg File:Kentucky CSA seal.svg. I think I've seen drawings of a flag using this KY confederate seal, but I don't have a source handy at the moment. cmadler (talk) 12:48, 24 May 2010 (UTC)
Disbanded? Reorganized?
editDespite the testimony that I have seen on a couple of pension applications, etc., I believe that it is technically incorrect to say that General Marshall disbanded (& then reformed) the entire regiment. That may very well have been the impression that many of the "twelve-months" men got when he decided to honor the terms of their enlistments, but in reality it was only their companies which were disbanded and/or consolidated. (While new companies were later, or had already been added to the regiment).
I refer you to the Report of the Adjutant General of Ky, vol 1, pg. 282, right-hand column, paragraph beginning with "Many of the twelve-months men..." https://archive.org/stream/reportofadjutan00kent#page/282/mode/1up