Dear Subscribers to the Greenup County, Kentucky and the Lewis County, Kentucky Mailing Lists, Union soldiers from Greenup and Lewis Counties, Kentucky (and several other counties) made up the roster of the Twenty-second Regiment of Kentucky Volunteer Infantry. Company "E" was composed almost entirely of Lewis County men. My third-great grandfather William Cooper was a member of Company "E". I have found a book which mentions the Twenty-second Kentucky, as well as the Fourteenth Kentucky. The book is entitled ~Under the Flag of the Nation: Diaries and Letters of a Yankee Volunteer in the Civil War~, edited by Otto F. Bond, printed in 1961 by the Ohio State University Press, Columbus, Ohio, for the Ohio Historical Society. The Dewey Decimal Number is 973.781 Ho. Owen Johnston Hopkins was the diarist and a member of the Forty-second Regiment of Ohio Volunteer Infantry, which was led by Colonel James A. Garfield. Colonel Garfield went on to become President of the United States. The Forty-second Ohio took part in many of the campaigns and battles that the Twenty-second and Fourteenth Kentucky were involved in. The Cumberland Campaign and the Mississippi Campaign were the main ones. The description of the Battle of Chickasaw Bayou/Chickasaw Bluffs, Mississippi, December 29, 1862 is especially good. Captain Alexander Bruce, Company "E", Twenty-second Kentucky, was wounded in this battle, as were quite a few Lewis and Greenup County men. I will post the references to Greenup County and the Twenty-second Regiment as I find them, because I am confident that the information will be of interest and value to the List Subscribers. The first mention of the Twenty-second Regiment of Kentucky Volunteer Infantry was in Private Hopkins's entry in February of 1862. On February 12 or 22, 1862, the Forty-second Ohio, brigaded with the Fortieth Ohio and the Fourteenth Kentucky, "embarked for Piketon, Kentucky [from Paintsville], higher up the Big Sandy and thirty miles from Pound Gap, where Humphrey Marshall had taken refuge after his thrashing at Prestonburgh. Arriving at this town [Piketon], we found a dilapidated row of houses on the bank of the river, which ran through a deep gorge formed by high precipitous hills on either side. Going into camp, we were joined by the Twenty-second Kentucky Volunteer Infantry and now numbered some 3,000 men, half of which force would have been sufficient to scare Humphrey Marshall out of his wits". Sincerely, Randal W. Cooper