CONFEDERATE TENNESSEE TROOPS
39th Regiment, Tennessee Mounted Infantry (W. M. Bradford's) (31st Infantry)
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39th Infantry Regiment, formerly the 31st (W.M. Bradford's) Regiment, was organized in March,
1862, and in April contained 363 effectives. It members were from the counties of Sevier, Blount,
Jefferson, Hawkins, McMinn, Greene, and Monroe. For a time the unit served in the Department
of East Tennessee, then was attached to A.W. Reynolds' Brigade in the Department of
Mississippi and East Louisiana. A detachment of the 39th captured the Federal gun boats
Queen of the West and Indianola, and later the regiment spent forty-seven days in
the trenches of Vicksburg where it was captured on July 4, 1863. After being exchanged and
reogranized as mounted infantry, it was assigned to General Vaughn's Brigade. The unit
contained 272 effectives April, 1864, moved to the Valley of Virginia, and lost forty-one percent
of the 118 engaged at Piedmont. Later it participated in
various engagements and surrendered at Asheville, North Carolina, on April 26, 1865. The field
officers were Colonel William M.
Bradford, Lieutenant Colonel James W. Humes, and Major Robert McFarland.
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