This is a list of military units raised by theCommonwealth ofKentucky, a neutral southern border state with dual competing Unionist and Confederate governments during theAmerican Civil War, for service in theUnion Army. Southern both geographically and culturally, an estimated 125,000 Kentuckians served as Union soldiers; almost quadruple the number of Kentuckians serving as Confederate soldiers (numbered at 35,000-45,000). Thelist of Kentucky's Confederate Civil War units is shown separately.

• Patterson's Independent Company Kentucky Volunteer Engineers

• Louisville Home Guard

• The Civil War Archive
• Dyer, Frederick H. (1959).A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. New York and London. Thomas Yoseloff, Publisher.LCCN 59-12963
• Unknown. (2006).Civil War Regiments from Kentucky and Tennessee. eBookOnDisk.com Pensacola, Florida.ISBN 1-9321-5739-5

• Lists of American Civil War Regiments by State

• Units and formations of the Union army from Kentucky
• Lists of military units and formations of the American Civil War
• Kentucky history-related lists

• Articles with short description
• Short description is different from Wikidata