CONFEDERATE TENNESSEE TROOPS
8th Regiment, Tennessee Cavalry (Smith's)
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8th (Baxter Smith's) Cavalry Regiment, usually called 4th Regiment, was organized in
November, 1862, but annulled. Reoraganized in January, 1863, by consolidating Davis'
Tennessee Cavalry Battalion and four companies from Murray's Cavalry Regiment, its ten
companies contained men recruited in the counties of Marshall, Sullivan, Smith, Wilson, Cannon,
Rutherford, Hamilton, Fentress, Davidson, DeKalb, and Sumner. Another company was added in
August with men from Knox and Blount counties. The regiment served in Wharton's, Biffle's,
Dibrell's, and T. Harrison's Brigade. It lost about 100 men skirmishing in Tennessee, then was
active in the Battle of Chickamauga. Later the unit moved with Wheeler to Middle Tennessee,
was with Longstreet in East Tennessee, then returned to Georgia where it took part in the Atlanta Campaign. The unit continued
the fight in East Tennessee and Virginia, and saw action in the
campaign of the Carolinas. It surrendered with the Army of Tennessee. The field officers were
Colonel Baxter Smith, Lieutenant Colonel Paul F. Anderson, and Major Willis S.
Bledsoe.
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