4th consolidated TN ?

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In reseaching my GGG grandfather I found that his original regiment, 10th TN CSA, was eventually rolled into the 4th Consolidated Regiment TN Infantry on 9 APR 1865. It looks like they were surrendered in Greensboro, NC later that month. I have been trying to find more details about this regiment, particularly if there was a roster or a list of those soldiers. Do those exist or were soldiers only pardoned/paroled as a regiment?

 

[RedRover]

Luke William Finley of the 4th TN Volunteers, was the commander of the 4th Tennessee Consolidated regiment when it was formed in April, 1865 by the consolidation of the remnants of a number of Tennessee regiments of Cheatham's old division:

The Compiled Service Records of the individual soldiers of the various Tennessee regiments which were consolidated into the 4th Tennessee Consolidated would have at least their surrender/parole record referenced as part of the regiment. The 4th Consolidated regiment was surrendered with General Joseph E. Johnston's forces in North Carolina in late April, 1865, and the men paroled and dispersed....

 

[ADD]

His CMSR is not as complete as I would like. These are the only entries

 

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Gosh sorry those pictures came out so big.

 

[RedRover]

The cards in the compiled service records were created by US War Department clerks in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. They are made up from the entries on the many thousands of muster rolls and lists from the war which were consulted.

The fact his Compiled record does not have any card references to muster-rolls of his company demonstrates that the Government did/does not have any of them at the time of the compilation. These rolls would have shown for example his exact date of enlistment, and how he left the service, etc.

the compiled record for Sergeant Dickey of the 10th Tennessee volunteers shows he was captured at Fort Donelson, TN in early 1862, and imprisoned in Illinois, and subsequently forwarded to Vicksburg, Mississippi to be formally exchanged to return to active service (The two sides exchanged prisoners through much of the war).

He was subsequently discharged from the Confederate army on October 9, 1862, and received his final pay a couple days later. That would have ended his association with the 10th Tennessee Volunteers (which in April, 1865, with several other skeleton regiments was consolidated into the 4th Tennessee Consolidated regiment).

 

[RedRover]

There is an "A. Dicky" who served with the 63rd Tennessee Volunteers, which I believe formed in 1863.

 

[Luke Freet]

In reseaching my GGG grandfather I found that his original regiment, 10th TN CSA, was eventually rolled into the 4th Consolidated Regiment TN Infantry on 9 APR 1865. It looks like they were surrendered in Greensboro, NC later that month. I have been trying to find more details about this regiment, particularly if there was a roster or a list of those soldiers. Do those exist or were soldiers only pardoned/paroled as a regiment?

The 10th Tennessee, aka the 10th Tennessee Irish, was formed in Nashville in 1862 from the large Irish population of the state capitol. It saw service with distinction at Fort Donelson, Raymond, Jackson, Chickamauga, Chattanooga, Resaca, & Jonesborough. By Jonesborough the regiment had been reduced to 51 officers & men present for duty. The regiment lost three of its colonels during the war: Adolphus Heiman, who commanded at Fort Donelson, died of illness during his and the regiment's internment; Randall MacGavock, killed leading the regiment and the 30th Tennessee (temporarily consolidated at the time) at Raymond, Mississippi; and William "Battling Bill" Grace, killed at Jonesborough.

After Jonesborough, the regiment barely existed, and was consolidated with the other Tennessee units of Thomas Benton Smith's Brigade during the Franklin-Nashville Campaign. After fighting at Spring Hill, Franklin, Murfreesboro and Nashville, the Tennessee contingent was reduced to just 65 riflemen. What few survivors of the regiment (likely a mere squad by this point) fought at Bentonville, before being consolidated into the 4th Tennessee Consolidated Infantry Regiment in April 1865, alongside the remnants of Palmer's & Quarles' Tennessee Brigades.

I'd recommend reading Ed Gleason's Rebel Sons of Erin, a history of the regiment, on the Internet Archive.

 

[Stryker65]

Here is what I have on the 4th Tennessee Consolidated:

4th Tennessee Consolidated Infantry - 09 April 1865

• Col. Anderson Searcy, 45th TN
• Lieut. Col. (promoted from Lieut.) Edward L. Drake, 2nd TN

Company A: 32nd TN
Company C: 15th TN
Company D: 20th TN
Company I: 18th TN
Company X: 2nd TN
Company X: 3rd TN
Company X: 10th TN
Company X: 26th TN
Company X: 30th TN
Company X: 37th TN
Company X: 42nd, 46th, 48th, 49th, 53rd, and 55th TNs (disbanded)
Company X: 45th TN

Luke William Finley of the 4th TN Volunteers, was the commander of the 4th Tennessee Consolidated regiment when it was formed in April, 1865 by the consolidation of the remnants of a number of Tennessee regiments of Cheatham's old division:

Lieutenant Colonel Finlay was not in fact in charge of the 4th Consolidated; rather, he commanded the 3rd Consolidated.