Army of Kentucky
The Army of Kentucky was a Confederate army
during the American Civil War.
The designation "Army of Kentucky" was given August 25, 1862 to the field army
Kirby Smith led into eastern Kentucky during the Confederate Heartland
Offensive. The army was drawn from troops of the Confederate Department of
Eastern Tennessee, which had been created with Smith as commander in February
1862.
The army consisted of the infantry divisions of Henry Heth, Patrick Cleburne,
Thomas J. Churchill and Carter L. Stevenson and two small cavalry brigades under
John Morgan and John S. Scott. After the Battle of Perryville, Kirby Smith was
promoted and given command of the Department of Trans-Mississippi, and the army
was incorporated into the Army of Tennessee.