Tennessee Civil War Union Cavalry Units

The information in this list of Tennessee Military Units comes from the Civil War Soldiers and Sailors web site (CWSS). This web site can also be searched by the name of a soldier.


 * 1st Regiment, West Tennessee Cavalry (Union) (See 6th Regiment Tennessee Cavalry (Union))


 * 1st Regiment, Tennessee Cavalry (Union) Organized at Camp Dennison, Ohio, November, 1862, from 4th Tennessee Infantry Mustered out June, 1865


 * 1st Regiment, Tennessee Independent Vidette Cavalry Regiment, Tennessee Cavalry (Union) Organized Companies "A," "B," "C," "G" and "H" at Stevenson and Bridgeport, Alabama, September 10, 1863, to April 26, 1864. Mustered out June 16, 1864.


 * 2nd Regiment, Tennessee Cavalry (Union) Organized at Murfreesboro, Tennessee, July, 1862. Mustered out July 6, 1865.


 * 3rd Regiment, Tennessee Cavalry (Union) Organized at Murfreesboro and Nashville, Tennessee, January 27, 1863. Mustered out August 3, 1865.


 * 4th Regiment, Tennessee Cavalry (Union) Organized at Nashville, Tennessee, February 9, 1863. Mustered out July 12, 1865.


 * 5th Regiment, Tennessee Cavalry (Union) Organized at Murfreesboro, Nashville and Carthage, Tennessee, July 15, 1862. Mustered out August 14, 1865.


 * 6th Regiment, Tennessee Cavalry (Union) Organized at Bethel, LaGrange, Bolivar, Trenton, etc., Tennessee, August 1l, 1862. Mustered out July 26, 1865.


 * 7th Regiment, Tennessee Cavalry (Union) Organized at Jackson, Grand Junction and Trenton, Tennessee, August 28, 1862. Mustered out August 9, 1865.


 * 8th Regiment, Tennessee Cavalry (Union) Organized August, 1863, by consolidation of 5 Companies organized at Camp Nelson, Kentucky, June 30 to August 14, 1863, for 10th Tennessee Cavalry, and 7 Companies organized in Tennessee at large for 5th East Tennessee Cavalry. Mustered out September 11, 1865.


 * 9th Regiment, Tennessee Cavalry (Union) Organized at Knoxville, Tenn., August 13, 1863. Mustered out September 11, 1865.


 * 10th Regiment, Tennessee Cavalry (Union) Organized at Nashville, Tennessee, August 25, 1863. Mustered out August 1, 1865.


 * 11th Regiment, Tennessee Cavalry (Union) Organized at large May to October, 1863. Mustered out by consolidation with 9th Tennessee Cavalry January 9, 1865.


 * 12th Regiment, Tennessee Cavalry (Union) Organized at Nashville, Tenn., August 24, 1863. Mustered out October 7, 1865.


 * 13th Regiment, Tennessee Cavalry (Union) Organized at Strawberry Plains, Nashville and Gallatin, Tennessee, October, 1863. Mustered out September 5, 1865.


 * Bradford's Battalion, 13th Regiment, Tennessee Cavalry (Union) Organized December, 1863. Consolidated to a Company April, 1864, and assigned to 14th Tennessee Cavalry as Company "A," then to 6th Tennessee Cavalry as Company "E."


 * 14th Regiment, Tennessee Cavalry (Union) Failed to complete organization. Those enlisted on duty on Nashville Northwestern Railroad, Dept. of the Cumberland, to February, 1865. Affair near Triune February 10, 1865. Scout from Nashville on Nolensville Pike February 15-16.