CONFEDERATE TENNESSEE TROOPS
8th Regiment, Tennessee Infantry
- Overview:
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8th Infantry Regiment was organized at Camp Trousdale, Sumner County, Tennessee, in May,
1861. Its members were recruited in the counties of Smith, Overton, Lincoln, Fentress, Putnam,
Jackson, Moore, and Marshall. Ordered to Virginia, the unit arrived at Huntersville in July with
887 men. Assigned to D.S. Donelson's Brigade, it participated in Lee's Cheat Mountain
Campaign, then was sent to Port Royal, South Carolina. During the spring of 1862, it moved
west, fought at Corinth, Munfordville, and Perryville, then joined the Army of
Tennessee. During the war it was attached to M.J. Wright's and Maney's Brigade. The 8th took
an active part in the campaigns of the army from Murfreesboro
to Atlanta, returned to
Tennessee with Hood, and saw
action in North Carolina. It reported 38 casualties at Perryville, lost sixty-five percent of
the 474
engaged at Murfreesboro, and took 260 into the fight at Chickamauga. During December,
1863,
it totalled 233 men and 207 arms. Only a remnant surrendered on April 26, 1865. The field
officers were Colonels John H. Anderson, Alfred S. Fulton, William L. Moore, and L.W. Oglesby;
Lieutenant Colonels A.G. Ewing and C.C. McKinney; and Majors W.H. Botts and William G.
Burford.
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