Mr. Hawkins Compliments, Sir
Please once your book is finished announce the title as I for one would be very interested.
Although I do not have a complete roster of the 5th Ky Infty. (Mtd.) PACS that is the unit that my Gr.Gr. Uncle was in. Enlisted 10/19/61, Mustered in on 11/18/61. In lawrence Co. by Capt. Leonidas H. Elliott(KIA in WV 5/19/62) - (strangely enough his, my uncles, brother Henry enlisted in the 5th KY Infty - Union). Yes, Ivy Mountain and Middle Creek were two of the early fights and I have visited both. Soon after that he joined up with Pegram just in time to get whupped at "Dutton's Hill" near Somerset and went on to join R.S. Clukes Reg. and JH Morgan.
The one thing that struck me while visiting the afore mentioned battle fields was how in the devil they got men and equipage over those mountains.
Now one must keep in mind I live in the UP of Mich(Go-Blue), so what looks like a mountain to me may be no more than a hill to ya'll.
I am,

Your Servant,

Gaus