The 1st Tennessee Cavalry Regiment was a
cavalry
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regiment
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that served in the
Union Army
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during the
American Civil War
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. It was also known as 1st East Tennessee Cavalry.
Service
The 1st Tennessee Cavalry was organized in November 1862 at
Camp Dennison
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,
Ohio
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from the 4th Tennessee Infantry, and mustered in for a three-year enlistment under the command of
Colonel
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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
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during 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 or accident.
[Fox, William F., Lt.-Col., 'Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865', Albany, N.Y., 1889, p. 519.]
Commanders
* Colonel Robert Johnson
* Colonel
James P. Brownlow - commanded at the battle of Chickamauga as
lieutenant colonel
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* Lieutenant Colonel Calvin M. Dyer - commanded at the Battle of Nashville
See also
*
List of Tennessee Civil War units
*
Tennessee in the Civil War
The American Civil War made a huge impact on Tennessee, with large armies constantly destroying its rich farmland, and every county witnessing combat. It was a divided state, with the Eastern counties harboring pro-Union sentiment throughout ...
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.
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External links
1st Tennessee Cavalry living history organization
Military units and formations established in 1862
Military units and formations disestablished in 1865
Units and formations of the Union Army from Tennessee
1865 disestablishments in Tennessee
1862 establishments in Ohio