CONFEDERATE TENNESSEE TROOPS
24th Regiment, Tennessee Infantry
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24th Infantry Regiment was assembled at Camp Trousdale, Sumner County, Tennessee, in
August, 1861. Its companies were recruited in the following counties: Rutherford, Williamson,
Macon, Sumner, DeKalb, Maury, Coffee, Hickman, and Wilson. After taking part in the conflicts
in Shiloh
and Perryville, the unit was
attached to General Stewart's, Strahl's, and Palmer's
Brigade, Army of Tennessee. It was active on many battlefields from Murfreesboro
to Atlanta,
returned to Tennessee with Hood, and saw action in North Carolina. This regiment took 406
effectives to Shiloh, had 68 disabled at Perryville, and lost twenty-three percent of the 344 at
Murfreesboro. It reported 43 casualties at Chickamauga, 45 at Missionary Ridge,
and totalled
257 men and 148 arms in December, 1863. Few surrendered in April, 1865. The field officers
were Colonels Robert D. Allison, Hugh L.W. Bratton, and John A. Wilson; Lieutenant Colonels
Thomas H. Peebles, Samuel E. Shannon, and John J. Williams; and Major William C. Fielding.
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