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Drakeford Gray, Private, Company I, 9th Kentucky Infantry (Mounted) awarded Medal of Honor, Battle of Murfreesboro by General Order Number 131/3 dated October 3, 1863 [ I cannot read the other six cards in his records within the 9th]
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3rd Sergeant Drakeford Gray enlisted in Captain Jo Desha's Company, Captain Desha's Battalion Kentucky Infantry**, May 24, 1862 at Memphis, Tennessee by Maj. Morehead, April 18, 1863 reduced to ranks, appointed Sergeant Major May 18, recorded as Private, September 10, 1864, in hospital having been wounded "slightly in hand," Atlanta campaign, September 1864, paroled at Montgomery, Alabama May 26, 1865
**This company, formerly Company I, 9th Regiment Kentucky Infantry (Mounted) and Company K, same regiment, were permanently detached by S. O. No. 126 . . . . dated May 27, 1863, and directed to report to General Preston who was to attach to them other companies to form a battalion under the command of Captain Jo Desha. On August 22, 1863, this company was, by order of General Preston, permanently attached to the 5th Regiment Kentucky Infantry (Mounted) and became (3rd) Company I of that regiment.
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There are also two cards in Captain Phil. M. Victor's Company of Partisan Rangers, Col. J. C. Morehead's Corps.**, showing he enlisted May 24, 1862 at Memphis by J. C. Morehead and paid bounty [M319 Roll 71]
**Other records show that Captain Phil. M. Victor commanded Company A, Morehead's Regiment Kentucky Partisan Rangers
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5th Regiment, Kentucky Mounted Infantry
5th Infantry Regiment, assembled during the late summer of 1861, included Freeman's Kentucky Infantry Battalion. Its members were raised in the counties of Pendleton, Breathitt, Morgan, Magoffin, Bath, Owen, Grant, Jessamine, Henderson, Harrison, Shelby, and Franklin. Being a twelve-month unit, when it became time to reenlist some of its members refused and were transferred to the 9th Kentucky Regiment. Later men of the 5th did reenlist for the duration of the war. It became part of the Orphan Brigade or Louisville Legion. The regiment reported 134 casualties in the Battle of Shiloh , then was active at Baton Rouge before being assigned to Kelly's and J.H. Lewis' Brigade, Army of Tennessee. It was prominent at Chickamauga and later took an active part in the Atlanta Campaign. In the fall of 1864 it was mounted, aided in the defense at Savannah, and fought in the Carolinas. The unit had 91 men disabled at Chickamauga, totalled 201 men and 165 arms in December, 1863, and surrendered on April 26, 1865. Its field officers were Colonels Hiram Hawkins, Andrew J. May, and John S. Williams; Lieutenant Colonels John W. Caldwell and George W. Conner' and Majors Richard Hawes and William Mynheir.
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9th Regiment, Kentucky Mounted Infantry
9th Infantry Regiment [also called 5th (Hunt's) Regiment] was organized at Russellville, Kentucky, during the fall of 1861. The men were recruited in the counties of Logan, Jefferson, Nelson, Harrison, Ohio, and Scott. It became part of the Orphan Brigade or Louisville Legion. The 9th served under Generals Hanson, Helm, and J.H. Lewis. It fought at Murfreesboro, was active in and around Jackson, saw action at Chickamauga, then participated in the Atlanta Campaign. During the fall of 1864 it was mounted and took part in the defense of Savannah and the campaign of the Carolinas. The regiment lost 1 killed and 28 wounded at Murfreesboro and forty-four percent of the 230 engaged at Chickamauga. In December, 1863, it totalled 235 men and 157 arms, but only a remnant surredered with the Army of Tennessee. The field officers were Colonels John W. Caldwell and Thomas H. Hunt; Lieutenant Colonels Alexander Casseday, Robert A. Johnston, and J.C. Wickliffe; and Major Ben Desha