Tennessee Civil War Union Units 1st through 14th

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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.

Union Regiments

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


 * 1st Regiment, Tennessee Infantry Organized at Camp Dick Robinson, Kentucky, August and September, 1861. Mustered out August 8,1865.


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


 * 1st Regiment, Tennessee Independent Vidette Cavalry 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.


 * 1st Battalion, Tennessee Light Artillery Organized at Memphis, Tennessee, Nashville and Knoxville, Tennessee, June 13, 1862, to October 16, 1863. Mustered out July, 1865.


 * 1st Regiment, Tennessee Mounted Infantry Organized at Nashville and Carthage, Tennessee, December, 1863, to November, 1864. Ordered to Nashville and mustered out July 22, 1865


 * 2nd Regiment, Tennessee Infantry Organized at Camp Dick Robinson and Somerset, September 28, 1861. Mustered out August 3, 1865


 * 2nd Regiment, Tennessee Mounted Infantry Organized at Nashville, Clifton and Franklin, Tennessee, October 2, 1863, to April 10, 1864. Mustered out June 27, 1865
 * 2nd Regiment, Tennessee Cavalry Organized at Murfreesboro, Tennessee, July, 1862. Mustered out July 6, 1865.


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


 * 3rd Regiment, Tennessee Infantry Organized at Flat Lick, Kentucky, December, 1861, to February, 1862. Moved to Nashville and mustered out February 23, 1865.


 * 3rd Regiment, Tennessee Mounted Infantry Organized at Loudon, Strawberry Plains and Knoxville July to September, 1864. Mustered out November 30, 1864.


 * 4th Regiment, Tennessee Infantry Organized at Camp Garber, near Flat Lick, Kentucky, November, 1861, to March, 1862. Mustered out August 2, 1865.


 * 4th Regiment, Tennessee Mounted Infantry Organized at large in Tennessee September 1, 1864. Mustered out August 25, 1865.


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


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


 * 5th Regiment, Tennessee Infantry Organized at Barboursville, Kentucky, and Harrison, Tennessee, February and March, 1862. Mustered out June 30, 1865.


 * 5th Regiment, Tennessee Mounted Infantry Organized at Cleveland, Nashville, Calhoun and Chattanooga, Tennessee, September 23, 1864. Mustered out July 17, 1865.


 * 6th Regiment, Tennessee Infantry Organized at Boston and Williamsburg, Kentucky, April 18, 1862. Mustered out April 2 to May 17, 1865.


 * 6th Regiment, Tennessee Mounted Infantry Organized at Chattanooga, Tennessee, August 20, 1864. Mustered out June 30, 1865.


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


 * 7th Regiment, Tennessee Mounted Infantry Organized at Athens and Nashville, Tennessee, August, 1864. Mustered out July 27, 1865.


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


 * 7th Regiment, Tennessee Infantry Organized in Tennessee at large August 10, 1862, to June 1, 1863. Mustered out July 31, 1863.


 * 8th Regiment, Tennessee Mounted Infantry Organized at Nashville and Carthage, Tennessee, November, 1864. Mustered out August 17, 1865.


 * 8th Regiment, Tennessee Cavalry 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.


 * 8th Regiment, Tennessee Infantry Organized at Camp Dick Robinson and Camp Nelson, Ky., November 11, 1862, to August 11, 1863. Mustered out June 30, 1865.


 * 9th Regiment, Tennessee Mounted Infantry (See 6th Regiment Cavalry.)


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


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


 * 10th Regiment, Tennessee Infantry Organized at Nashville, Tenn., May to August, 1862. Mustered out June 23, 1865.


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


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


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


 * 14th Regiment, Tennessee Cavalry 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.


 * 14th Regiment, Tennessee Cavalry (Neely's) Organized at Okolona, Mississippi, in August, 1863, The regiment surrendered with the Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and East Louisiana.


 * 14th Regiment, Tennessee Cavalry contains no history for this unit.


 * 14th Regiment, Tennessee Infantry 14th Infantry Regiment was formed at Camp Duncan, near Clarksville, Tennessee, in May, 1861, with eleven companies. However, Company F disbanded in May, 1863, and 32 men transferred to Company E. Of the 220 engaged at Gettysburg, over fifty percent were disabled. The unit surrendered 6 officers and 34 men.


 * 15th Regiment, Tennessee Cavalry Was assembled at Oxford, Mississippi, in February, 1864. in February, 1865, the regiment was ordered to Alabama where it surrendered in May.


 * 15th Consolidated Regiment, Tennessee Cavalry Was assembled at Oxford, Mississippi, in February, 1864. February, 1865, the regiment was ordered to Alabama where it surrendered in May.


 * 15th Regiment, Tennessee Cavalry (Stewart's) Was organized in August, 1863. It skirmished in Tennessee and in February, 1864, was broken up.


 * 15th Regiment, Tennessee Infantry was organized at Jackson, Tennessee, in June, 1861. Only a handful surrendered on April 26, 1865.


 * 16th Battalion, Tennessee Cavalry (Neal's) organized in October, 1862 disbanded in Georgia during the spring of 1865.


 * 16th Regiment, Tennessee Cavalry (Logwood's) Was organized at Pikeville, Mississippi, in August, 1863. Served in the Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana, and skirmished in Mississippi until February, 1864, when it merged into the 15th (Stewart's-Logwood's) Tennessee Cavalry Regiment.


 * 16th Regiment, Tennessee Cavalry Units of the Confederate States Army" by Joseph H. Crute, Jr. contains no history for this unit.


 * 16th Regiment, Tennessee Infantry Organized in June, 1861, at Camp Harris, Tennessee, The unit surrendered on April 26, 1865 at Chickamauga,


 * 17th Battalion, Tennessee Cavalry (Sanders') Was formed in September, 1862, with three companies: one from Tennessee and two from Mississippi. Skirmished in Tennessee and during December, 1864, merged into the 9th Mississippi Cavalry Regiment.


 * 17th Battalion, Tennessee Cavalry (Sanders') Was formed behind Federal lines during the fall of 1863 but was not officially recognized.


 * 17th Regiment, Tennessee Infantry Was organized at Camp Trousdale, Sumner County, Tennessee, in June, 1861. It surrendered 5 officers and 63 men on April 9, 1865 at Chickamauga.


 * 18th Regiment, Tennessee Cavalry (Newsom's) Organized in May, 1864, by consolidating six companies of Newsom's Tennessee Cavalry Regiment and four companies of Forrest's Alabama Cavalry Regiment. It moved to Alabama and on May 3, the 18th/20th contained 29 officers and 217 men. The next day they were included in the surrender on April 26, 1865.


 * 18th Regiment, Tennessee Infantry Completed its organization at Camp Trousdale, Tennessee, in June, 1861. Was included in the surrender on April 26, 1865.


 * 19th Regiment, Tennessee Cavalry (Biffle's) Organized in October, 1862. It was included in the surrender of the Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and East Louisiana as part of T.H. Bell's command.


 * 19th/20th Consolidated Regiment, Tennessee Cavalry Units of the Confederate States Army" by Joseph H. Crute, Jr. contains no history for this unit.


 * 19th Regiment, Tennessee Infantry Was assembled at Knoxville, Tennessee, during May and June, 1861, On April 26, 1865, it surrendered at Chattanooga.


 * 20th Regiment, Tennessee Cavalry (Russell's) Organized in February, 1864. Ended the war in Alabama on May 3, 1865,


 * 20th Regiment, Tennessee Cavalry "Units of the Confederate States Army" by Joseph H. Crute, Jr. contains no history for this unit.


 * 20th Regiment, Tennessee Infantry Organized during May and June, 1861, at Camp Trousdale, Tennessee. Surrendered on April 26, 1865


 * 21st Battalion, Tennessee Cavalry "Units of the Confederate States Army" by Joseph H. Crute, Jr. contains no history for this unit.


 * 21st Regiment, Tennessee Cavalry "Units of the Confederate States Army" by Joseph H. Crute, Jr. contains no history for this unit.


 * 21st Regiment, Tennessee Cavalry (Carter's) Organized in September, 1864, was never officially numbered. Surrendered with the Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and East Louisiana.


 * 21st Regiment, Tennessee Cavalry (Wilson's) Organized in February, 1864, February, 1865, the unit was consolidated with Barteau's 22nd Cavalry, it was included in the surrender of the Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and East Louisiana.


 * 21st/22nd Consolidated Regiment, Tennessee Cavalry "Units of the Confederate States Army" by Joseph H. Crute, Jr. contains no history for this unit.


 * 21st Regiment, Tennessee Infantry Completed its organization at Union City, Tennessee, in July, 1861.


 * 22nd Battalion, Tennessee Infantry (Murray's) Beaty's Company, Tennessee Independent Mounted Scouts Compendium of the War of the Rebellion" by Frederick H. Dyer contains no history for this unit.