CONFEDERATE TENNESSEE TROOPS
6th Regiment, Tennessee Infantry
- Overview:
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6th Infantry Regiment, organized in May, 1861, at Camp Bearegard, Jackson, Tennessee,
contained men from Haywood, Madison, and Fayette counties. After fighting at Shiloh
and Perryville
it was placed in General Maney's and Palmer's Brigade, Army of Tennessee. In
December, 1862, it was consolidated with the 9th Regiment. The unit participated in the
campaigns of the army from the Murfreesboro
to Atlanta, endured Hood's
winter operations in
Tennessee, and ended the war in North Carolina. It had about 500 men disabled at Shiloh and
there were 91 killed or wounded 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. It was included in the surrender on April 26, 1865.
The field officers were Colonels George C. Porter and William H. Stephens; Lieutenant Colonels
John L. Harris, William M.R. Johns, and Timothy P. Jones; and Majors James A. Wilder and
Robert C. Williamson.
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