Spiller’s Tennessee Cavalry Battalion
No muster rolls, nor record of organization of this battalion were found. However, it is mentioned several times in the Official Records, with C. C. Spiller as lieutenant colonel, and Continue Reading →
Category Archives: Cavalry
Napier’s Tennessee Cavalry Battalion
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 →
McCann’s Tennessee Cavalry Battalion
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 →
Holman’s Tennessee Cavalry Battalion
HOLMAN’S TENNESSEE PARTISAN RANGER BATTALION Organized October 13, 1862; consolidated February 25, 1863 with Douglass’s Battalion and three other companies to form the 11th Tennessee Cavalry Regiment. FIELD OFFICER Major-Daniel W. Continue Reading →
Douglass’ Tennessee Cavalry Battalion
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 →
Davis’ Tennessee Cavalry Battalion
Organized as a battalion in Confederate service at Bardstown, Kentucky, September 27, 1862; merged into 8th, also called 4th, (Baxter Smith’s) Tennessee Cavalry Regiment at Shelbyville, Tennessee January 27, 1863. Continue Reading →
Cox’s Tennessee Cavalry Battalion
Organized October 1862 as a battalion of Partisan Rangers; mustered into Confederate service December, 1862; consolidated with Napier’s Battalion February 25, 1863 to form the 10th Tennessee Cavalry Regiment. FIELD Continue Reading →
Burrow’s Tennessee Cavalry Battalion
BATTALION (State Troops) Colonel R. V. Richardson stated that this command was raised in West Tennessee in the Summer of 1862. Five or six companies had been raised and others Continue Reading →
5th Tennessee Partisan Ranger Battalion
Also called Black’s Battalion, Forrest’s Cavalry A muster roll of a Detachment of Exchanged Prisoners at Camp Lee, Virginia, dated July 15, 1863 showed a number of men as belonging to Continue Reading →
17th Tennessee Cavalry Battalion
Organized September 15, 1862; consolidated with 17th Mississippi Cavalry Battalion to form 9th Mississippi Cavalry Regiment in December 1864. This battalion was composed of only three companies, one of which, Continue Reading →