CONFEDERATE TENNESSEE TROOPS
1st/27th Consolidated Regiment, Tennessee Infantry
- Overview:
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1st Infantry Regiment Volunteers was organized in Nashville, Tennessee, in
May, 1861. Its companies were recruited in Nashville and the counties of
Davidson, Nashville, Williamson, Hardin, Maury, Giles, and Rutherford. The
unit moved to Virginia, took part in Lee's Cheat Mountain Campaign, served
under T.J. Jackson, then in February, 1862, returned to Tennessee. After
fighting at
Shiloh and
Perryville,
it was assigned to Maney's and Palmer's Brigade, Army of Tennessee, and during
December, 1862, was consolidated with the 27th Regiment. It participated
in the campaigns of the army from
Murfreesboro
to Atlanta, endured
Hood's winter operations in Tennessee, and ended the war in North Carolina.
At Perryville it lost 179 killed, wounded, or missing. The 1st/27th reported
8 killed and 75 wounded of the 457 at Murfreesboro, had 14 killed and 75
wounded at
Chickamauga, and totalled 456 men and 290 arms in December, 1863. It
surrendered with less that 125 effectives. The field officers were Colonels
Hume R. Feild and George Maney; Lieutenant Colonels John L. House, John
Patterson, and Theodore F. Sevier; and Major Abraham M. Looney.
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