6th Tennessee Infantry Regiment (1898)
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The 6th Regiment, Tennessee Infantry was an
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from
Tennessee Tennessee ( , ), officially the State of Tennessee, is a landlocked state in the Southeastern region of the United States. Tennessee is the 36th-largest by area and the 15th-most populous of the 50 states. It is bordered by Kentucky to th ...
that served in the
Confederate States Army The Confederate States Army, also called the Confederate Army or the Southern Army, was the military land force of the Confederate States of America (commonly referred to as the Confederacy) during the American Civil War (1861–1865), fighting ...
. Notable battles that the regiment fought in include the
Battle of Shiloh The Battle of Shiloh (also known as the Battle of Pittsburg Landing) was fought on April 6–7, 1862, in the American Civil War. The fighting took place in southwestern Tennessee, which was part of the war's Western Theater. The battlefield i ...
. A notable officer of the Regiment was
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James William Boyd James William Boyd (1822 – after 1865) was an American Confederate military officer who was alleged in a conspiracy theory to have been killed in the place of John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, due to their resem ...
, who had a strong resemblance to
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.


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List of Tennessee Confederate Civil War units This is a list of Tennessee Confederate Civil War units. The list of Tennessee Union Civil War units is shown separately. Infantry * 1st (Maney's/Field's) Tennessee Infantry ** Rock City Guards (Companies A, B and C) * 1st (Turney's) Tennesse ...


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6th Tennessee Infantry Regiment The 6th Regiment, Tennessee Infantry was an infantry regiment from Tennessee that served in the Confederate States Army. Notable battles that the regiment fought in include the Battle of Shiloh. A notable officer of the Regiment was Captain Jame ...
6th Tennessee Infantry Regiment The 6th Regiment, Tennessee Infantry was an infantry regiment from Tennessee that served in the Confederate States Army. Notable battles that the regiment fought in include the Battle of Shiloh. A notable officer of the Regiment was Captain Jame ...
6th Tennessee Infantry Regiment The 6th Regiment, Tennessee Infantry was an infantry regiment from Tennessee that served in the Confederate States Army. Notable battles that the regiment fought in include the Battle of Shiloh. A notable officer of the Regiment was Captain Jame ...
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