Harrison Thompson, age 35, Private, Captain Samuels' Company, 12th Regiment Kentucky Mounted Volunteers*, joined for duty and enrolled September 20, 1862 at Wolf Creek for 3 years, deserted January 7,1863 at Munfordville, company mustered-in at Mumfordville, Kentucky February 11, 1863, the Record and Pension Office, War Department, Washington, D. C., July 26, 1869, noted: "He is regarded as a rejected recruit," no further records
* This organization subsequently became Company L, 12th Regiment Kentucky Cavalry, U. S. A.
M397: Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Kentucky
12th Regiment, Kentucky Cavalry Organized at Caseyville and Owensboro, Ky., November 17, 1862
Twelfth Cavalry
KENTUCKY
(3-YEARS)
Twelfth Cavalry. -- Cols., Quintus C. Shanks, Eugene W.
Crittenden Lieut.-Cols., Alexander W. Holeman, James T.
Bramlette, Majs., Nathaniel L. Lightfoot, William R. Kinney,
Ira H. Stout, Julius N. Delfosse, James B. Harrison, George F.
Barnes.
This regiment dated from Aug. 16, 1862, though it was not
until Nov. 17 that eleven companies, with the field and staff,
were mustered into the U. S. service at Owensboro. The
twelfth company was on a scout, so it was mustered in later
and joined the regiment at Munfordville. The roll then showed
1,250 men in all, but during the service from first to last it
mustered over 2,000 men and quit the service with less than
900.