The 2nd Kentucky Infantry Regiment was organized at Camp Clay near Cincinnati, Ohio, May - June 1861.
It was organized in Ohio while Kentucky tried to remain neutral.
Although credited to Kentucky, the regiment was almost entirely composed by Ohio volunteers.
[1] The regiment moved to the Kanawha Valley, Virginia, July 10 where it was attached to Kanawha Brigade, Western Virginia, to October 1861.
22nd Brigade, 4th Division, II Corps, Army of the Ohio, to November 1862.
1st Brigade, 2nd Division, Left Wing, XIV Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to January 1863.
1st Brigade, 2nd Division, XXI Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to October 1863.
Buell's Campaign in northern Alabama and middle Tennessee June to August, March to Louisville, Kentucky, in pursuit of Bragg August 21-September 25.
Destruction of Salt Works at Goose Creek October 23–24.
Passage of Cumberland Mountains and Tennessee River and Chickamauga Campaign August 16-September 22.
(A detachment at Ringgold Gap, Georgia, November 27, 1863, and on demonstration on Dalton February 22–27, 1864.
Tunnel Hill, Buzzard's Roost Gap and Rocky Faced Ridge February 23–25.)