Harmon L. Parker, 18 KY Infantry

Headstone in Evergreen Cemetery

Harmon Parker was a private in Company G of the 18th Kentucky Infantry. This unit formed in early 1862 and took part in the battle at Richmond, Kentucky, later that year. They then moved to Covington, Kentucky, just a few minutes away from where Mr. Parker is now buried. His unit spent the rest of 1862 in various assignments in Kentucky, before moving to Nashville, Tennessee early in 1863. They eventually took part in the battle of Chickamauga and then the campaign to open up Chattanooga. 

After the Union army captured Atlanta, this unit was involved in the attempt to capture John Bell Hood's Confederates and then participated in William Tecumsah Sherman's March to the Sea. The 18th traveled throughout the Carolina and was at the battle of Bentonville. It then ended its war service by participating in the Grand Review in Washington DC in late May 1865, before mustering out at Louisville, Kentucky in July o that same year.

Mr. Parker passed away in early 1911, at age 66, of cirrhosis of the liver and is buried in Evergreen Cemetery.  

Rest in peace, soldier