8th Tennessee Cavalry Regiment
This regiment had as its forerunner five companies of cavalry originally known as the 5th East Tennessee Cavalry. Other companies were later added to the original five, and the organization Continue Reading →
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61st Tennessee Infantry Regiment
Also called 81st Tennessee Infantry Regiment: Pitts’ Regiment, East Tennessee Volunteers: 61st Tennessee Mounted Infantry Regiment Organized October 10, 1862; mustered into Confederate service November 10, 1862; captured at Vicksburg, July 1863; Continue Reading →
60th Tennessee Infantry Regiment
Also called 79th Tennessee Infantry Regiment: Organized October 1, 1862; mustered into Confederate service November 7, 1862; captured at Vicksburg; served remainder of war in Vaughn’s Brigade in East Tennessee Continue Reading →
59th Tennessee Infantry Regiment
Also called 1st (Eakin’s) Tennessee Battalion: Cooke’s Regiment: 59th Tennessee Mounted Infantry Regiment Organized May, 1862; captured Vicksburg July, 1863; served in Vaughn’s Brigade in East Tennessee and Western Virginia Continue Reading →
12th Tennessee Cavalry Battalion
Also called Adrian’s Partisan Ranger Battalion; Phipps’ Battalion Organized September 1, 1862; consolidated with 16th Battalion, June, 1863 to March, 1864, in temporary field organization known as Rucker’s Legion; in Brigadier Continue Reading →