Adjutant General's Report, Anonymous, William E. Craycroft enlisted as a private, July 16, 1861, at Camp Boone, Tennessee, in Company C, Second Regiment Infantry, Kentucky Volunteers.

This Regiment was organized at Camp Boone, Tennessee, on July 17, 1861, and was sent under command of Col. Roger Hanson to Fort Donelson, where most of the Regiment was captured with the surrender of the fort on February 16, 1861. The Regiment carried into action about 600 men, and lost nearly 80 men killed and wounded. It was subsequently exchanged and participated in the severe engagement at Hartsville, Tenn., and also Murfreesboro, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, Rockface Gap and Jackson, Miss. Took conspicuous part n the hundred days' battle from Dalton to Atlanta, Ga., which included the actions as Resaca, Dallas, Kennesaw Mountain, Stony Creek, Intrenchment Creek, Peach Tree Creek and Jonesboro. The Regiment was mounted at Barnsville, Ga., and was constantly engaged with the rear guard of Gen. W.T. Sherman's Army "during his march to the sea." Was thereafter continuously marching and engaging the enemy in Georgia and South Carolina until the closing days of the war, and was finally surrendered at Washington, Ga., on the 6th of May, 1865. A splendid record of devotion to duty and conspicuous gallantry on many bloody fields.

Wm E Craycroft