CONFEDERATE TENNESSEE TROOPS
9th Regiment, Tennessee Infantry
- Overview:
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9th Infantry Regiment was organized at Jackson, Tennessee, in May, 1861. Its members were
recruited in the counties of Haywood, Fayette, Tipton, Shelby, Hardeman, Weakley, Obion, and
Lauderdale. The unit fought at Shiloh
and Perryville
before being assigned to General Maney's
and Palmer's Brigade, Army of Tennessee. In December, 1862, it was consolidated with the 6th
Tennessee Regiment. It participated in the campaigns of the army from Murfreesboro
to Atlanta, endured Hood's
winter operations, and ended the war in North Carolina. The regiment was
organized with 838 officers and men, had 60 killed and wounded at Shiloh and 158 disabled at
Perryville. The 6th/9th lost ten percent of the 412 engaged at Murfreesboro and fifty-eight
percent of the 335 at Chickamauga. During December, 1863, this command totalled 335 men and
183 arms. On April 26, 1865, the 9th Regiment surrendered about 40 men. The field officers
were Colonels Henry L. Douglass and Charles S. Hunt; Lieutenant Colonel John W. Burford; and
Majors George W. Kelso, H.A. Rogers and S.H. White.
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