CONFEDERATE TENNESSEE TROOPS
18th Regiment, Tennessee Cavalry (Newsom's)
- Overview:
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18th Cavalry Regiment [also called 19th Regiment] was organized in May, 1864, by
consolidating six companies of Newsom's Tennessee Cavalry Regiment and four companies of
Forrest's Alabama Cavalry Regiment. Its members were recruited in Hardeman, Madison,
Henderson, and McNairy counties. The unit was assigned to T.H. Bell's Brigade in the
Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and East Louisiana. In Mississippi it sustained 22 casualites
at Brice's Cross Roads
and 95 at Harrisburg. Later the regiment was active in Tennessee and in
March, 1865, was consolidated with the 20th Tennessee Cavalry. It moved to Alabama and on
May 3, the 18th/20th contained 29 officers and 217 men. The next day they were included in the
surrender of the department. The field officers were Colonels John F. Newsom and Dew Moore
Wisdom, Lieutenant Colonel Joseph D. Ozier, and Majors William Y. Baker and William T.
Parham.
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