Tennessee in the Civil War

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Tennessee - Union and Confederate

Population and Demographics

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Antebellum Tennessee

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Conflict

1861
  • May 6, 1861 - The Tennessee legislature puts the issue of secession up for popular vote
  • May 9, 1861 - Governor Isham Harris begins organizing the Provisional Army of Tennessee before the results of the vote
  • June 8, 1861 - Secession approved by voters
  • July 31, 1861 - Provisional Army troops assigned to Confederate Army
1863
1865

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Units from Tennessee

Union

Confederate

Because of Tennessee's position as a border state, it was overrun very early on in the war. No Local Defense Troops or Reserve units were organized here. Note also that Tennessee's cavalry regiments often changed designations several times, depending on whether the units served as State or Confederate troops. The Tennessee Corps of Artillery was organized as part of the Provisional Army troops and transferred to Confederate service, but was broken into individual companies later on.

Cavalry

REGIMENTS

BATTALIONS

OTHER UNITS

Infantry

REGIMENTS

BATTALIONS

OTHER UNITS

Provisional Army and Pre-War Units

PROVISIONAL ARMY

STATE TROOPS

PRE-WAR UNITS

Tennessee Artillery Corps
  • Original Company numbers on the left became the units on the right when the Corps was dissolved
  • Some of these units then disappeared or were absorbed by larger units
Company #1 (Rutledge's) Tennessee Artillery Battery
Company #2 (Polk's) Tennessee Artillery Battery
Company #3 (Steuben) Tennessee Artillery Battery
Company #4 (Jackson's) Tennessee Heavy Artillery Battery
Company #5 (Bankhead's/Scott's) Tennessee Artillery Battery
Company #6 (Pillow) Tennessee "Flying" Artillery Battery
Company #7 Transferred to Company #3 on June 1, 1861
Company #8 (Warner's/Sterling's) Tennessee Heavy Artillery Battery
Company #9 (Memphis) Tennessee ("Southern Guards") Artillery Battery
Company #10 (Keiter's/Humes'/Winston's) Tennessee Heavy Artillery Battery
Company #11 (Rock City) Tennessee Artillery Battery
Company #12 (Crain's) Tennessee Artillery Battery
Company #13 (Burns) Tennessee Light Artillery Battery
Company #14 (Lynch's) Tennessee Light Artillery Battery
Company #15 (Stewart's) Tennessee Artillery Battery
Company #16 (Caswell) Tennessee Artillery Battery
Company #17 (Humphreys) Tennessee Light Artillery Battery
Company #18
Company #19 (Maury) Tennessee Artillery Battery
Company #20 (I) (Johnston's) Tennessee Light Artillery Battery
Company #21 (Nelson) Tennessee Artillery Battery
Company #22 (Jones') Tennessee Heavy Artillery Battery
Consolidated Units

CAVALRY


INFANTRY

Casualties from Tennessee

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Notes

  1. Referenced by 5th (Walker's) Confederate States Infantry volume 3, page 186

Sources