25th Regiment Kentucky Volunteer Infantry

The 25th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Service
The 25th Kentucky Infantry was organized at Camp Joe Anderson near Hopkinsville, Kentucky and mustered in for a three year enlistment on January 1, 1862.

The regiment was attached to 13th Brigade, Army of the Ohio, to December 1861. 13th Brigade, 5th Division, Army of the Ohio, to February 1862. 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, Army of the Tennessee, to March 1862. 3rd Brigade, 4th Division, Army of the Tennessee, to April 1862.

The 25th Kentucky Infantry ceased to exist on April 13, 1862 when its members were consolidated with the 17th Kentucky Infantry.

Detailed service
Duty at Calhoun, Kentucky, until February 1862. Moved to Fort Donelson, Tennessee, February 11–13. Investment and capture of Fort Donelson, February 13–16. Expedition to Crump's Landing, Tennessee, March 14–17. Battle of Shiloh, April 6–7.

Casualties
The regiment lost so many men to disease, that it was consolidated with the 17th Kentucky Infantry.

Commanders

 * Colonel James Murrell Shackelford

Notable members

 * Lieutenant Colonel Benjamin Bristow - United States Secretary of the Treasury (1874–1876)