1st Regiment Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry Contents Service Casualties Commanders See also References External links Navigation menu1st Tennessee Cavalry living history organizationBrief unit history, including officers' names, regimental strengths, etc.

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1st Regiment Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry

History of the First regiment of Tennessee volunteer cavalry in the great war of the rebellion, with the armies of the Ohio and Cumberland, under Generals Morgan, Rosecrans, Thomas, Stanley and (14798799773).jpg
First regiment of Tennessee volunteer cavalry in the Civil War

ActiveNovember 1862 to June 1865
CountryUnited States
AllegianceUnion
BranchCavalry
Engagements
Tullahoma Campaign
Battle of Chickamauga
Atlanta Campaign
Siege of Atlanta
Battle of Lovejoy's Station
Battle of Franklin
Battle of Nashville

The 1st Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry Regiment was a cavalry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It was also known as 1st East Tennessee Cavalry.




Contents





  • 1 Service


  • 2 Casualties


  • 3 Commanders


  • 4 See also


  • 5 References


  • 6 External links




Service


The 1st Tennessee Cavalry was organized November 1862 at Camp Dennison, Ohio from the 4th Tennessee Infantry and mustered in for a three year enlistment under the command of Colonel Robert Johnson.


The regiment was attached to Camp Dennison, Ohio, to December 1862. Reserve Brigade, Cavalry Division, Army of the Cumberland, to January 1863. 1st Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, Army of the Cumberland, to November 1864. 1st Brigade, 1st Division, Cavalry Corps, Military Division Mississippi, to January 1865. District Middle Tennessee, Department of the Cumberland, to June 1865.


The 1st Tennessee Cavalry mustered out of service at Nashville, Tennessee April and June 1865.



Casualties


The regiment lost a total of 356 men during service; 4 officers and 56 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded, 3 officers and 293 enlisted men died of disease.



Commanders


  • Colonel Robert Johnson

  • Colonel James P. Brownlow - commanded at the battle of Chickamauga as lieutenant colonel

  • Lieutenant Colonel Calvin M. Dyer - commanded at the battle of Nashville


See also



  • List of Tennessee Civil War units

  • Tennessee in the Civil War


References


  • Carter, W. R. History of the First Regiment of Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry in the Great War of the Rebellion, With the Armies of the Ohio and Cumberland, under Generals Morgan, Rosecrans, Thomas, Stanley and Wilson, 1862-1865 (Knoxville, TN: Gaut-Ogden Co., Printers), 1902.

  • Dyer, Frederick H. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion (Des Moines, IA: Dyer Pub. Co.), 1908.

  • Wiefering, Edna. Tennessee Union Soldiers Vol. 1 (Cleveland, TN: Cleveland Public Library), 1996.

Attribution

  • This article contains text from a text now in the public domain: Dyer, Frederick H. (1908). A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. Des Moines, IA: Dyer Publishing Co.


External links


  • 1st Tennessee Cavalry living history organization

  • Brief unit history, including officers' names, regimental strengths, etc.


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