A soldier from the 13th appears in the third chapter of MacKinlay Kantor's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "Andersonville" (1955).
The 13th Kentucky Infantry Regiment was organized at Camp Hobson near Greensburg, Kentucky, and mustered in for a three-year enlistment on December 10, 1861, under the command of Colonel Edward Henry Hobson.
11th Brigade, 5th Division, II Corps, Army of the Ohio, to November 1862.
1st Brigade, 3rd Division, Left Wing, XIV Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to December 1862.
District of West Kentucky, Department of the Ohio, to June 1863.
2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, XXIII Corps, Army of the Ohio, to August 1863.
Buell's Campaign in northern Alabama and middle Tennessee June to August.
March to Nashville, Tenn.; thence to Louisville, Ky., in pursuit of Bragg, August 21-September 26.
Duty at Munfordville and other points in Kentucky November 1862 to August 1863.
Burnside's march over Cumberland Mountains and campaign in eastern Tennessee August 16-October 17.
Battles about Dallas, New Hope Church and Allatoona Hills May 25-June 5.
Ordered to Kentucky September, and duty at Bowling Green until January 1865.