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I was recently given this coin or pendant by my father who found it in some old coins and silver certificates. I was just wondering if anyone out there knew exactly what it was. It looks as if it could have been a pendant because there is a hump of sorts on the top that looks as if it may have once had an arc there for wearing on a necklace. Anyway, it makes no difference to me whether it is a coin or pendant, I just want to know exactly what it is called and if it was a medal, or something given to all 1st Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry members.
In case the below picture isn't clear enough for everyone, here is some of the writing that is on it.
Back:
top - War of 1861
middle - Shelbyville
Chicamauga
Chatinooga
Dandridge
Moss. Creek
Fair Garden
Lost Mt
Franklin Tenn
Nashville
(illegible to me)
Camelsville
Li??ville
bottom - Engaged in the Above Battles
Front:
top - B. CULLEFER
CO.M
middle - 1ST TENN. VOL. CAV.
bottom - GRANGER CO. TEN.
If anyone can tell me anything, I would be most appreciative!
If it is indeed a dog tag, there's no means to attach it to the body (chain, string) and it could easily be lost if kept in the pocket. Second, while it may have been used as a personal identification disk (note how it only says 1861), it was stamped with the battles post-war.
If it is indeed a dog tag, there's no means to attach it to the body (chain, string) and it could easily be lost if kept in the pocket. Second, while it may have been used as a personal identification disk (note how it only says 1861), it was stamped with the battles post-war.
This type of tag originally had an attachment for a chain as can be seen with this specimen. As to the battle honors being done post war, I would disagree with that. Or rather, one can not say for sure when they were put on, however, there are enough of these ID tags out there where the soldier died in service with battle honors up until their death that it provides evidence battles were put on during the war.
John Gross
__________________ My areas of expertise are firearms and Latin females. Not necessarily in that order.
This is what I found thus far:
Southern Historical Society Papers
Richmond, Va., Jan., 1928. New Series, Vol. 8, Old Series, Vol. XLVI.
1st Confederate Congress--(Second Session)--Monday, September 8, 1862.
BILLS REPORTED
Mr. Sparrow, from the Committee of Military Affairs, reported back a bill regulating the payment of the claims of deceased soldiers; also a bill giving the Quartermaster General the rank of brigadier.
Mr. Henry, of Tennessee, from the same committee, reported a bill ordering medals to be awarded to officers and privates in the army for skill or gallantry displayed in the field.
Mr. Brown, of Mississippi, from the Committee of Naval Affairs, reported bills increasing the pay of engineers and passed assistant surgeons of the navy; and to amend the act to organize the marine corps.
Both of which bills were passed.
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Confederate Military History, Vol. 4
ADDITIONAL SKETCHES ILLUSTRATING THE SERVICES OF OFFICERS AND PRIVATES AND PATRIOTIC CITIZENS OF NORTH CAROLINA.
Lieutenant-Colonel William Williams Stringfield, [excerpt]
June, 1861, enlisted as a private in Company F, First Tennessee cavalry, with which he served in the campaign under General Zolli-coffer, from Cumberland Gap into Kentucky, taking part in the fights at Barbersville, Wild Cat and Rock Castle, and at Yellow Creek narrowly escaping death at the hands of eleven bushwhackers. Returning home in the following winter on sick leave, he organized a company, which became E of the Thirty-first infantry, and he was elected captain.
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Confederate Military History, Vol. 7
ALABAMA--CHAPTER V.
No. 103--(46) In skirmish near Gurley's Tank, February 16, 1865. (931) By order of Brigadier-General Chalmers, near Buena Vista, January 24th: "Captain Alexander, Fourth Alabama cavalry, will report with his command to Colonel Wheeler, commanding First Tennessee cavalry, at Columbus, or wherever he may be." (997) General Forrest ordered Colonel Russell to camp near Columbus. (1031) Ordered to Montevallo, March, 1865.
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Confederate Military History, Vol. 7
MISSISSIPPI--CHAPTER IX.
Other forces--Sengstak's battery; Mississippi cavalry, Col. Wirt Adams; Waul's Texas Legion, Lieut.-Col. L. Willis; Pointe Coupée artillery; First Tennessee cavalry, Col. J. G. Stocks. Mississippi State troops, Brig.-Gen. John V. Harris: Fifth regiment, Col. H. C. Robinson; Third battalion, Lieut.-Col. T. A. Burgin.
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Confederate Military History, Vol. 8
Tennessee--BIOGRAPHICAL.
Brigadier-General William H. Jackson, one of the most prominent living soldiers of Tennessee, was born at Paris, Tenn.,[excerpt] Capt. Wm. H. Jackson for valuable and gallant service rendered them. This gallant young officer was in the field again early in 1862 as colonel of the First Tennessee cavalry, winning compliments from his superior officers in every affair in which he was engaged. His name is mentioned in all the reports, and by his merit as chief of cavalry in Pemberton's department he richly earned the commission of brig-adier-general, which was bestowed upon him December 29, 1862. He had acted as chief of cavalry for Van Dorn and Price in the campaign which culminated in the battle of Corinth. On the retreat from that disastrous field he had well protected the rear of the Confederate army.[end of excerpt]
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Confederate Military History, Vol. 8
Tennessee--CHAPTER V.
THE BATTLE OF MURFREESBORO--TENNESSEE COMMANDS ENGAGED--OPERATIONS OF THE CAVALRY --McCOWN OPENS THE BATTLE--HEROIC DEEDS OF THE TENNESSEE BRIGADES--SEVERE LOSSES--CHEATHAM AND HIS DIVISION.
[excerpt]
The First Tennessee cavalry, Col. James E. Carter, and the Tennessee battalions of Maj. DeWitt C. Douglass and Maj. D. W. Holman were part of Wheeler's brigade of the cavalry division commanded by Gen. Joseph Wheeler. The Second cavalry, Col. H. M. Ashby; Fourth, Col. Baxter Smith; Murray's Tennessee cavalry, Maj. W. S. Bledsoe; Wharton's escort company, Capt. Paul F. Anderson, and the battery of Capt. B. F. White, Jr., were the Tennessee commands in the cavalry brigade of Gen. John A. Wharton. [end of excerpt/begin new excerpt]Rosecrans consumed four days in advancing a distance of twenty miles over macadamized roads, his movements being delayed and embarrassed by the watchfulness of the cavalry commanded by Generals Wheeler and Wharton. On the 26th, Wheeler engaged Rosecrans during the entire day, falling back only three miles, and on the 28th and 29th he killed and wounded large numbers, his <cmh8_60>own command sustaining slight loss. At midnight of the 29th, General Wheeler, reinforced by Col. James E. Carter, First Tennessee cavalry, was ordered to the rear of the enemy. He reported that at daylight he met near Jefferson a brigade train which he took and destroyed, capturing 50 prisoners; at Lavergne attacked and captured 700 prisoners and destroyed immense trains amounting to many hundred thousand dollars in value; at Rock Springs captured and destroyed another large train; at Nolensville captured large trains, stores and arms, and 300 prisoners; after which he proceeded to the left of the Confederate army, thus making a compass of the enemy's rear.
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Confederate Military History, Vol. 8
Tennessee--CHAPTER VIII.
[excerpt]
The Knoxville campaign, under Lieut.-Gen. James Longstreet, was participated in by Bushrod Johnson's brigade; the Fourth, Eighth, Ninth and Tenth Tennessee cavalry under Brig.-Gen. W. Y. C. Humes; Dibrell's cavalry brigade; Freeman's, White's, Rhett's and McClung's batteries, and the First Tennessee cavalry, Col. Onslow Bean. General Johnson, with his own and Gracie's brigade, reached the front of Knoxville on the 27th and 28th of November, 1863. On the 29th he moved to the attack on Fort Loudon in support of the assaulting column under Brigadier-General Humphreys, Gracie on the right. The command approached to within 250 yards of the enemy's fortifications on which the assault was made, and was soon under fire. At this time Gracie was withdrawn by the lieutenant-general commanding, and an order made for Johnson to halt. The attack was abandoned, and Johnson occupied, with his skirmishers, the advance rifle-pits, distant 250 yards from the enemy's fort. During the assault on Fort Loudon, Johnson's brigade lost Lieut. S. W. Ross, Forty-fourth, and Private J.P. Hicks, Seventeenth, killed, and 19 officers and men wounded.
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KENTUCKY--CHAPTER X.
ARMY OF KENTUCKY.
FIRST DIVISION, BRIG.-GEN. C. L. STEVENSON.
SECOND DIVISION, BRIGADIER-GENERAL HENRY HETH.
[excerpt]
First cavalry brigade, Col. Benj. Allston :--First Tennessee cavalry, Col. H. M. Ashby; Second Tennessee cavalry, Col. J. B. McLinn; Third Tennessee cavalry, Col. J. W. Starnes; First Georgia cavalry, Col. J. J. Morrison; Howitzer battery, First-Lieut. G. A. Huwald.
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Dyer's Compendium, Pt. 1 (Campaigns etc.)
Union Organization List (here for abbreviations)--Tennessee
1st Regt. Cav.
1st Middle Tenn. Cav. (5-Cav.)
1st West Tenn. Cav. (6-Cav.)
(56 Organized Tennessee units on Union Side)
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Dyer's Compendium, Pt. 1 (Campaigns etc.)
Union Regimental Index--Tennessee
1st REGIMENT CAVALRY.—Org. at Camp Dennison, Ohio, Nov., 1862, from 4th Tenn. Infy. Dec., 1862, Res. Brig., Cav. Div., Cumberland. Jan., 1863, 1 Brig., 1 Div., Cav. Corps, Cumb'd. Nov., 1864, 1 Brig., 1 Div., Cav. Corps, Mil. Div. Miss. Jany., 1865, Dist. Middle Tenn., Dept. Cumb'd. Mustered out June, 1865.
1st MIDDLE TENNESSEE CAVALRY.—(See 5th Cav.).
1st WEST TENNESSEE CAVALRY.—( See 6th Cav.).
5th REGIMENT CAVALRY.—(1st MIDDLE TENN. CAVALRY). Org. at Murfreesboro, Nashville and Carthage, Tenn., July 15, 1862. July, 1862, Post Nashville, Tenn., Dept. Ohio. Nov., 1862, Res. Cavalry, Cav. Div., Cumb'd. Jany, 1863, Post Nashville Tenn., Cumb'd. June, 1863, Post Nashville, Tenn., Res. Corps, Cumb'd. June, 1863, 1 Brig., 2 Div., Cav. Corps, Cumb'd. Aug., 1863, 3 Brig., 2 Div., Cav. Corps, Cumb'd. Nov., 1863, 1 Brig., 2 Div., Cav. Corps, Cumb'd. April, 1864, 2 Brig., 4 Div., Cav. Corps, Cumb'd. Oct., 1864, 2 Brig., 4 Div., Cav. Corps, Mil. Div. Miss. Nov., 1864, 3 Brig., 6 Div., Cav. Corps, Mil. Div. Miss. Feby., 1865, Dist. Middle Tenn., Dept. Cumb'd. Mustered out Aug. 14, 1865.
5th REGIMENT EAST TENNESSEE CAVALRY.—Org. at Camp Nelson, Ky. (5 Co's) for 10th Tenn. Car, June 30 to Aug. 14, 1863. June, 1863, Dist. Central Ky., Dept. Ohio. July, 1863, 3 Brig., 3 Div., 23 Corps, Dept. Ohio. July 1863, 2 Brig., 4 Div., 23 Corps. July, 1863, 2 Brig., 1 Div., 23 Corps. Assigned to 8th Tenn. Cav., Aug., 1863, which see.
6th REGIMENT CAVALRY.—(1st MIDDLE TENN. CAVALRY). Org. at Bethel, LaGrange, Bolivar, Trenton, etc., Tenn., Aug. 11, 1862. Aug., 1862, Dist. Jackson, Tenn., Dept. Tenn. Nov., 1862, Dist. Jackson, Tenn., 13 Corps, Dept. Tenn. Dec., 1862, Cav. Brig., Dist. Jackson, Tenn., 16 Corps. March, 1863, Cav. Brig., 3 Div., 16 Corps. June, 1863, 2 Brig., 1 Cav. Div., 16 Corps. Dec., 1863, 1 Brig., 1 Cav. Div., 16 Corps. June, 1864, Unass'd, Dist. West Tenn., Dept. Tenn. Nov., 1864, 2 Brig., 4 Div., Cav. Corps, Mil. Div. Miss. Dec., 1864, 2 Brig., 7 Div., Cav. Corps, Mil. Div. Miss. Feby., 1865, 1 Brig., 6 Div., Cav. Corps, Mill. Div. Miss. and Dist. Middle Tenn. Mustered out July 26. 1865.
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Dyer's Compendium, Pt. 3 (Regimental Histories)
TENNESSEE VOLUNTEERS.
1st REGIMENT CAVALRY.
Organized at Camp Dennison, Ohio, November, 1862, from 4th Tennessee Infantry. 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, Dept. of the Cumberland, to June, 1865.
SERVICE.--Duty at Camp Dennison, Ohio, till December 24, 1862. Moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, thence to Louisville, Ky.; to Shepherdsville, Ky., and return to Louisville, Ky., thence moved to Nashville, Tenn., January 9-17, 1863. Reconnoissance to Franklin and Brentwood and occupation of Franklin February 2, 1863. Moved to Concord Church February 2, and duty there till February 28. Expedition from Lexington to Clifton February 17-20 (Detachment). Moved to Triune February 28, and duty there till June. Petersburg March 2. Action at Harpeth River, near Triune, March 8. Franklin April 10. Near Chapel Hill April 13 (Detachment). Rigg's Cross Roads April 16. College Grove April 26 (Detachment). Expedition to Thompson's Station May 2. Rover May 5. Jordan's Store May 30. Franklin June 4. Triune June 9. Middle Tennessee or Tullahoma Campaign June 23-July 7. Eaglesville, Uniontown and Rover June 23. Middletown June 24. Fosterville, Guy's Gap and Shelbyville June 27. Bethpage Bridge, Elk River, July 1-2. Occupation of Middle Tennessee till August 16. At Dechard Station till July 12, then at Huntsville, Ala. Crossing Cumberland Mountains and passage of the Tennessee River, Chickamauga (Ga.) Campaign, August 16-September 22. Lebanon and Rawlinsville, Ala., September 5. Alpine September 9. Reconnoissance toward Rome September 10-11. Dirt Town September 12. Lafayette September 12. Battle of Chickamauga September 19-21. Operations against Wheeler and Roddy September 30-October 17. Anderson's Cross Roads October 2. McMinnville October 2. Shelbyville and Farmington October 4. Bucktown Tavern, Ala., October 12. Sulphur Springs, Tenn., October 21. At Winchester till November 18. Scout to Estill Springs and Tullahoma October 25-27. Moved to Alexandria November 18, and to Sparta November 20. Actions at Sparta November 20, 24, 26 and 27 Yankeetown November 30 (Detachment). March to Knoxville December 7-15, and to Strawberry Plains December 15-16. East Tennessee Campaign December, 1863, to February, 1864. Operations about Dandridge and Mossy Creek December 24-28, 1863. Hay's Ferry, near Dandridge, December 24. Mossy Creek December 25. Talbot Station December 27. Talbot Station, Mossy Creek, December 29. Expedition to Cosby Creek, N. C., January, 1864. Cosby Creek January 17. Near Wilsonville January 22. Operations about Dandridge January 26-28. Fair Garden January 26-27. McNutt's Bridge January 27. Scout from Marysville toward Seviersville February 1-2. Moved to Cleveland, Tenn., February 10-March 11. Atlanta (Ga.) Campaign May to September. Catoosa Springs May 4. Varnell's Station May 7-8. Demonstration on Dalton May 9-13. Tilton May 13. Resaca May 14-15. Pursuit to Cassville May 16-19. Near Cassville May 19. Stilesborough May 23. Huntsville or Burnt Hickory May 24. About Dallas. New Hope Church and Allatoona Hills May 25-June 5. Burned Church May 30 and June 11. Ackworth June 3-4. Big Shanty June 6. Operations about Marietta and against Kenesaw Mountain June 10-July 2. Pine Hill June 11-14. McAffee's Cross Roads June 11-12. Powder Springs and Noonday Creek June 20. Allatoona July 1. Nickajack Creek July 2-6. Kingston July 3. Ruff's Station July 4. Chattahoochie River July 6-17. Cochran's Ford July 9. Siege of Atlanta July 22-August 25. Mason's Church July 23. McCook's Raid on Atlanta & West Point Railroad July 27-31. Campbellton July 28. Lovejoy Station July 29. Clear Creek and Newnan July 31. Ordered to Nashville, Tenn. Rousseau's pursuit of Wheeler September 1-8. Lavergne September 1. Franklin September 2. Union City September 2 (Detachment). Campbellsville September 5. Pursuit of Forest September 25-October 10. Pulaski September 26-27. Franklin September 27. Cypress Creek, Ala., October 6. Florence, Ala., October 6-7. Mussel Shoals, near Florence, October 30. Near Shoal Creek October 31. Near Florence November 5-6 and 9. Nashville Campaign November and December. On line of Shoal Creek November 16-20. Lawrenceburg November 21. Fouche Springs November 23. Campbellsville November 24. Columbia November 24-27. Battle of Franklin November 30. Battle of Nashville December 15-16. Pursuit of Hood to the Tennessee River December 17-28. Lynnville December 24. Richland Creek December 24-25. Pulaski December 25-26. Expedition into Mississippi January 15-21, 1865. Moved from Eastport, Miss., to Nashville, Tenn., February 10-17, and duty there till June. Mustered out June, 1865.
Regiment lost during service 4 Officers and 56 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 3 Officers and 293 Enlisted men by disease. Total 356.
1st MIDDLE TENNESSEE CAVALRY.
See 5th Regiment Tennessee Cavalry.
1st WEST TENNESSEE CAVALRY.
See 6th Regiment Tennessee Cavalry.
5th REGIMENT CAVALRY (1st MIDDLE TENNESSEE).
Organized at Murfreesboro, Nashville and Carthage, Tenn., July 15, 1862. Attached to Post of Nashville, Tenn., Army of the Ohio, to November, 1862. Reserve Cavalry, Cavalry Division, Army of the Cumberland, to January, 1863. Post of Nashville, Tenn., Dept. of the Cumberland, to June, 1863. Post of Nashville, Tenn., Reserve Corps, Dept. of the Cumberland, June, 1863. 1st Brigade, 2nd Cavalry Division, Army of the Cumberland, to August, 1863. 3rd Brigade, 2nd Division, Cavalry Corps, Dept. of the Cumberland, to November, 1863. 1st Brigade, 2nd Cavalry Division, Army of the Cumberland, to April, 1864. 2nd Brigade, 4th Division, Cavalry Corps, Dept. of the Cumberland, to October, 1864. 2nd Brigade, 4th Division, Cavalry Corps, Military Division Mississippi, to November, 1864. 3rd Brigade, 6th Division, Cavalry Corps, Military Division Mississippi, to February, 1865. 3rd Brigade, 6th Division, Cavalry Corps, Military Division Mississippi, to February, 1865. District Middle Tennessee, to August, 1865.
SERVICE.--Duty at Nashville, Tenn., till December 26, 1862. Affair at Kinderhook August 11, 1862. Skirmish near Nashville September 2. Siege of Nashville September 7-November 7. Goodlettsville September 30. Gallatin October 1. Near Humboldt October 9. Near Nashville November 5. Near Lavergne November 7. Reconnoissance toward Lavergne November 19. Reconnoissance to Franklin December 11-12. Franklin December 12. Advance on Murfreesboro December 26-30. Nolensville Pike December 27. Wilkinson's Cross Roads December 29. Battle of Stone's River December 30-31, 1862, and January 1-3, 1863. Overall's Creek December 31, 1862. Lytle's Creek January 5. Reconnoissance to Auburn, Liberty and Cainesville January 20-22. Near Cainesville February 15. Manchester Pike February 22. Bradysville March 1. Expedition to Woodbury March 3-8. Near Auburn March 8. Vaught's Hill near Milton March 20 (Co. "E"). Expedition to Auburn, Liberty, Snow Hill, etc., April 2-6. Snow Hill or Smith's Ford and Liberty April 3. Liberty April 7. Expedition to McMinnville April 20-30. Hartsville April 22. Bradyville Pike May 17. (Two Companies on Streight's Raid toward Rome, Ga., April 26-May 3. Day's Gap or Sand Mountain, Crooked Creek and Hog Mountain April 30. Blountsville and East Branch, Big Warrior River, May 1. Blake's Creek near Gadsden May 2. Blount's Farm and near Centre May 2. Near Cedar Bluff May 3.) Bradyville Pike May 17. Expedition to Middleton May 21-22. Scout on Middleton or Eagleville Pike June 10. Expedition to Lebanon June 15-17. Skirmish at Lebanon June 16. Dixon Springs June 20. Middle Tennessee or Tullahoma Campaign June 23-July 7. Shelbyville June 25. Fosterville, Guy's Gap and Shelbyville June 27. Duty at Carthage, McMinnville, Alexandria, Tracy City and Shelbyville, operating against guerrillas on line of the Nashville & Chattanooga Railroad till February, 1864. Pulaski July 15, 1863. Expedition to Huntsville, Ala., July 18-22. Scout in Sequatchie Valley September 21-22. Missionary Ridge and Shallow Ford Gap September 22. Operations against Wheller and Roddy October 1-17. (Reopening Tennessee River October 26-29 (Co. "G"). Battle of Wauhatchie, Tenn., October 28-29 (Co. "G"). Centreville October 29 (Co. "G"). Eagleville December 7. McMinnville December 21. Lavergne December 29. Scout to White and Putnam Counties February 1-7, 1864. Operations against guerrillas about Sparta February to April, Johnson's Mills February 22 (Detachment). Sparta and Calf Killer River February 22. White County March 10. Operations about Sparta March 11-28. Calf Killer River March 11. Winchester March 17. Beersheeba Springs March 19. Duty at Nashville, Tenn., and on line of the Nashville & Chattanooga Railroad at McMinnville, Carthage, Tullahoma and other points till November, 1864. Scout in Lincoln County July 12-15. McMinnville August--. Murfreesboro September 4. Operations about Murfreesboro November, 1864, to January, 1865. Siege of Murfreesboro December 4-12, 1864. Overall's Creek December 4 (Detachment). Demonstrations on Murfreesboro December 5-7. Wilkinson's Cross Road near Murfreesboro and the Cedars December 7. Ordered to Fayetteville January, 1865, and duty patroling line of the Nashville & Chattanooga Railroad and duty in District of East Tennessee till August, 1865. Skirmish near McMinnville February 5, 1865. Mustered out August 14, 1865.
Regiment lost during service 1 Officer and 68 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 1 Officer and 175 Enlisted men by disease. Total 245.
5th REGIMENT CAVALRY (5th EAST TENNESSEE).
Organized at Camp Nelson, Ky. (5 Cos), for 10th Tennessee Cavalry, June 30 to August 14, 1863. Attached to District of Central Kentucky, Dept. of the Ohio, to July, 1863. 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, 23rd Army Corps, Army of the Ohio, July, 1863. 2nd Brigade, 4th Division, 23rd Army Corps, July, 1863. 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 23rd Army Corps, to August, 1863.
SERVICE.--Duty at Cynthiana, Ky., and along railroad till August, 1863. Pursuit of Morgan July 1-20. Buffington Island, Ohio, July 19. Operations against Scott July 25-August 6. Near Winchester, Ky., July 29. Irvine July 30. Lancaster, Stanford and Paint Lick Bridge July 31. Smith Shoals, Cumberland River, August 1. Assigned to 8th Tennessee Cavalry August, 1863 (which see).
6th REGIMENT CAVALRY (1st WEST TENNESSEE).
Organized at Bethel, LaGrange, Bolivar, Trenton, etc., Tenn., August 11, 1862. Attached to District of Jackson, Dept. of the Tennessee, to November, 1862. District of Jackson, 13th Army Corps, Dept. of the Tennessee, to December. 1862. Cavalry Brigade, District of Jackson, 16th Army Corps, to March, 1863. Cavalry Brigade, 3rd Division, 16th Army Corps, to June, 1863. 2nd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, 16th Army Corps, to December, 1863. 1st Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, 16th Army Corps, to June, 1864. Unassigned, District of West Tennessee, Dept. of the Tennessee, to November, 1864. 2nd Brigade, 4th Division, Cavalry Corps, Military Division Mississippi, to December, 1864. 2nd Brigade, 7th Division, Cavalry Corps, Military Division Mississippi, to February. 1865. 1st Brigade, 6th Division, Cavalry Corps, Military Division Mississippi, and District of Middle Tennessee, to August, 1865.
SERVICE.--Pursuit to Ripley, Miss., October 5-12, 1862. Chewalla and Big Hill October 5. Operations about Bolivar, Tenn., November 3-December 31, 1862. Expedition from Corinth, Miss., against Forest December 18, 1862-January 3, 1863. Action near Jackson December 19, 1862. Near Ripley, Miss., December 23. Near. Middleburg December 24-25. Bolivar December 24. Near Clifton, Tenn., January 1, 1863. Scout between Bolivar, Tenn., and Ripley, Miss., January 25-28. Pocahontas March 24. Expedition to Hatchie River and skirmishes April 1-16. Scout from LaGrange into Northern Mississippi April 29-May 5. Linden May 12 (Detachment). Expedition from Jackson across Tennessee River June 2-7. Operations in Northwest Mississippi June 15-25. Skirmishes at Forked Deer Creek and · Jackson July 13, and at Forked Deer Creek July 15. Holly Springs September 7. Expedition from LaGrange to Toone Station September 11-16. Montezuma September 16. Locke's Mills, near Moscow, September 26. Operations in North Mississippi and West Tennessee against Chalmers October 4-17. Lockhart's Mills, Coldwater River, October 6. Salem October 8. Ingraham's Mills, near Byhalia, October 12. Wyatt's October 13. Operations on Memphis & Charleston Railroad November 3-5. Holly Springs, Miss., November 5. Operations on Memphis & Charleston Railroad against Lee's attack November 28-December 10. Operations in Northern Mississippi and West Tennessee December 18-31. Ordered to Memphis, Tenn., January 17, 1864, and duty there till November. Scout in Hardin County February 9. Seviersville and Miflin February 18. Operations against Forest in West Tennessee March 16-April 14. Bolivar March 29. Sturgis' Expedition to Ripley April 30-May 9. Tracy City August 4. Florence, Ala., October 6-7. Ordered to Nashville, Tenn., November 24. Battle of Nashville, Tenn., December 15-16. Pursuit of Hood to the Tennessee River December 17-28. Hollow Tree Gap and Franklin December 17. Rutherford Creek December 19. Lynnville December 23. Pulaski December 25-20. Hillsboro December 29. Near Leighton December 30. Narrows January 2, 1865. Thorn Hill January 3. At Gravelly Springs, Ala., till February. At Edgefield and Pulaski and in District of Middle Tennessee till August, 1865. Mustered out July 26, 1865.
Regiment lost during service 2 Officers and 33 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 9 Officers and 352 Enlisted men by disease. Total 396.
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I haven't found anything with the name provided. But, I did search for 1st Tennessee Vol Cavalry on both sides of the war. So, perhaps reading and fitting the travels of both army cavalry units you may get answers.
But, if you look at the UNION's 1st Tennessee Cavalry; sure does have a lot of battles that matched up with the disk you have; I'm seeing 90% positive identifications in the regimental history. Name which might have been shorten as to fit on the disk Clearly identifiedConnected with Lost Mountain - General W. T. Sherman's Atlantia Campaign.
O.R.-- SERIES I--VOLUME XXXVIII/1 [S# 72]
MAY 1-SEPTEMBER 8, 1864.--The Atlanta (Georgia) Campaign.
No. 1.--Reports of Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman, U.S. Army, commanding Military Division of the Mississippi.
[excerpt]
On the 9th of June our communications to the rear being secure and supplies ample, we moved forward to Big Shanty. Kenesaw, the bold and striking twin mountain, lay before us, with a high range of chestnut hills trending off to the northeast, terminating to our view in another peak called Brush Mountain. To our right was a smaller hill, called Pine Mountain, and beyond it in the distance, Lost Mountain. All these, though linked in a continuous chain, present a sharp, conical appearance, prominent in the vast landscape that presents itself from any of the hills that abound in that region. Kenesaw, Pine Mountain, and Lost Mountain form a triangle. Pine Mountain, the apex, and Kenesaw and Lost Mountain the base, covering perfectly the town of Marietta, and the railroad back to the Chattahoochee. On each of these peaks the enemy had his signal station, the summits were crowned with batteries, and the spurs were alive with men busy in felling trees, digging pits, and preparing for the grand struggle impending. The scene was enchanting; too beautiful to be disturbed by the harsh clamor of war; but the Chattahooche lay beyond, and I had to reach it. On approaching close to the enemy, I found him occupying a line full twelve miles long, more than he could hold with his force. General McPherson was ordered to move toward Marietta, his right on the railroad, General Thomas on Kenesaw and Pine Mountain, and General Schofield off toward Lost Mountain; General Garrard's cavalry on the left, and General Stoneman on the right, and General McCook looking to our rear and communications. Our depot was at Big Shanty.
By the 11th of June our lines were close up, and we made dispositions to break the line between Kenesaw and Pine Mountains. General Hooker was on its right and front. General Howard on its left and front, and General Palmer between it and the railroad. During a sharp cannonading from General Howard's right, or General Hooker's left, General Polk was killed on the 14th, and on the morning of the 15th Pine Mountain was found abandoned by the enemy. Generals Thomas and Schofield advanced and found him again strongly intrenched along the line of rugged hills connecting Kenesaw and Lost Mountain. At the same time General McPherson advanced his line, gaining substantial advantage on the left. Pushing our operations on the center as vigorously as the nature of the ground would permit, I had again ordered an assault on the center, when, on the 17th, the enemy abandoned Lost Mountain and the long line of admirable breast-works connecting it with Kenesaw. We continued to press at all points, skirmishing in dense forests of timber and across most difficult ravines, until we found him again,trongly posted and intrenched, with Kenesaw as his salient, his right wing thrown back so as to cover Marietta, and his left behind Noyes' Creek, covering his railroad back to the Chattahoochee. This enabled him to contract his lines and strengthen them accordingly. From Kenesaw he could look down upon our camps and observe every movement, and his batteries thundered away, but did us but little harm on account of their extreme height, the shot and shell passing harmlessly over our heads, as we lay close up against his mountain town. During our operations about Kenesaw the weather was villainously bad, the rain fell almost continually for three weeks, rendering our narrow wooded roads mere mud gullies, so that a general movement would have been impossible, but our men daily worked closer and closer to the intrenched foe, and kept up an incessant picket-firing galling to him. Every opportunity was taken to advance our general lines closer and closer to the enemy--General McPherson watching the enemy on Kenesaw and working his left forward; General Thomas swinging, as it were, on a grand left-wheel, his left on Kenesaw, connecting with General McPherson, and General Schofield all the time working to the south and east, along the Sandtown road. [END OF EXCERPT]
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O.R.-- SERIES I--VOLUME XXXVIII/1 [S# 72]
MAY 1-SEPTEMBER 8, 1864.--The Atlanta (Georgia) Campaign.
No. 2.--Organization of the Union (field) forces, commanded by Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman, in the Atlanta Campaign, May 3-September 8, 1864.
CAVALRY CORPS.
Brig. Gen. WASHINGTON L. ELLIOTT.
ESCORT.
4th Ohio, Company D, Capt. Philip H. Warner.
FIRST DIVISION.
Brig. Gen. EDWARD M. McCOOK.(a)
First Brigade.
Col. JOSEPH B. DORR. (b)
Col. JoHN T. CROXTON.
Col. JOSEPH B. DORR.(c)
Lieut. Col. JAMES P. BROWNLOW.(d)
8th Iowa:
Lieut. Col. Horatio G. Barrier.
Col. Joseph B. Dorr.
Maj. Richard Root.
Maj. John H. Isett.
Maj. Richard Root.
4th Kentucky e (mounted infantry):
Col. John T. Croxton.
Lieut. Col. Robert M. Kelly.(e)
Capt. James H. West. (f)
Lieut. Granville C. West.
Capt. James I. Hudnall.
2d Michigan:--(g)
Maj. Leonidas S. Scranton.
Lieut. Col. Benjamin Smith. 1st Tennessee, Col. James P. Brownlow.
Second Brigade.
Col. OSCAR H. LA GRANGE (h)
Lieut. Col. JAMES W. STEWART.(i)
Lieut. Col. HORACE P. LAMSON.
Lieut. Col. WILLIAM H. TORREY.(j)
Lieut. Col. HORACE P. LAMSON.
2d Indiana:
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======================================= Official Records of the Rebellion; supports Union's 1st Tennessee Vol. Cavalry in the General Sherman's Atlantic Campaign which falls into line with the disk you have.
I would think there is 90% chance of accuracy that the disk you have is connected to UNION' 1st Tennessee Vol. Cavalry. Information matches Information may be shortened or misspelled Information is linked to identifying it to the disk - e.g. Lost Mountain
Note: Shelbyville, Tennessee is linked to Murfreesborough, Fayetteville and Huntsville, Ala.
Just some thoughts.
Respectfully submitted for consideration,
M. E. Wolf
Sorry M. E. Wolf. I assumed it was known that these ID tags are Union. The reason the soldier is hard to find is that his name is spelled Culifar on the Tennessee Roster ("Tennesseans in the Civil War, Volume II", page 497). His first name is Benjamin.
John Gross
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