Records filed as 1st (Feild’s) Tennessee Infantry Regiment Organized May 9, 1861 at Nashville, Tennessee; mustered into Confederate service August 1, 1861; reorganized about May 1, 1862 at Corinth, Mississippi; Continue Reading →
Organized February 25, 1863 by consolidation of Cox’s and Napier’s Battalions (q.v.); consolidated with 11th Tennessee Cavalry Regiment February, 1865; paroled as part of the loth/lith Consolidated Tennessee Cavalry Regiment Continue Reading →
See also: 8th (Baxter Smith’s) Tennessee Cavalry Regiment (1st) The Eighth Tennessee Cavalry was originally organized on ‘November 24, 1862. For some reasons no longer clear, however, this original regimental Continue Reading →
Usually called 4th Tennessee Cavalry Regiment Organized November 24, 1862, but annulled; organized again January 23, 1863; paroled at Charlotte, North Carolina May 3, 1865. FIELD OFFICERS Colonel-Baxter Smith Lieutenant Continue Reading →
Organized August 1862 by addition of other companies to Spiller’s Battalion (q.v.); disbanded January 23, 1863 and companies distributed to other organizations. This regiment should not be confused with 4th Continue Reading →
Organized December 1862; consolidated with Cox’s Battalion February 25, 1863 to form 10th Tennessee Cavalry Regiment. Muster rolls of this battalion show five companies, under Colonel Thomas Alonzo Napier, all Continue Reading →
Major J. Richard McCann This was a Partisan Corps under the command of Major J. R. McCann, and was organized in the Summer of 1862 to operate within the enemy’s Continue Reading →
Organized October 1862; companies never lettered; the companies were variously assigned to other organizations, and four remaining companies were consolidated February 25, 1863 with Holman’s Partisan Ranger Battalion, to form Continue Reading →
Also called 10th Tennessee Cavalry Battalion Organized January 8, 1862; consolidated with 2nd (Biffle’s) Battalion May 1862 to form 6th, usually called 1st (Wheeler’s) Tennessee Cavalry Regiment. FIELD OFFICEBS Lieutenant Colonel-William Continue Reading →
Also called 1st West Tennessee Cavalry Battalion:1st Middle Tennessee Cavalry Battalion Organized early 1861; mustered into Confederate service September 19, 1861; reorganized May, 1862; consolidated into three companies June 13, Continue Reading →