CONFEDERATE TENNESSEE TROOPS
60th Regiment, Tennessee Mounted Infantry (Crawford's) (79th Infantry)
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60th Regiment Infantry [also called 79th Regiment] was organized at Haynesville, Tennessee, in October, 1862. Men of this unit were recruited in the counties of Washington, Hawkins, Sullivan, Grainger, and Cocke. It was assigned to General J.C. Vaughn's Brigade and remained there throughout the war. Serving in the Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana, most of the regiment was captured in the conflict at Big Black River Bridge and the remaining men at Vicksburg. Exchanged and reorganized as mounted infantry, it skirmished in Western Virginia and East Tennessee, then disbanded during the spring of 1865. Its commanders were Colonels John H. Crawford and Nathan Gregg, and Lieutenant Colonel James A. Rhea.
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