Dear Members of the Greenup and Lewis Counties, Kentucky Discussion Groups, This is Posting Number Two from ~Under the Flag of the Nation: Diaries and Letters of a Yankee Volunteer in the Civil War~. The references to the Twenty-second Kentucky that I find in said book will be posted on the Greenup and Lewis County Lists, but not in chronological order. I apologize for that, but it is the quickest way for me to ge the information to you. I will have to leave it up to the reader to put the diary entries in chronological order. Wednesday, April 27, 1864: "All quiet in Baton Rouge. The Twenty-second Kentucky Volunteers left today for Alexandria." >From this entry in the diary of Owen J. Hopkins of Company "K" of the Forty-second Ohio, who was a Sergeant by this time, we see that the Twenty-second Regiment of Kentucky Volunteer Infantry was stationed at Baton Rouge, Louisiana on April 27, 1864 and that on that day, said regiment headed for Alexandria, Louisiana. Alexandria is about 120 miles northwest of Baton Rouge. I do not know why the Twenty-second was transferred from Baton Rouge to Alexandria, nor what the regiment was engaged in doing at those locations. Such details will have to wait until more research reveals them. Sincerely, Randal W. Cooper