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The 19th Tennessee Infantry Regiment, or Nineteenth Tennessee Volunteer Infantry Regiment, was an infantry regiment in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. The 19th Tennessee fought in every major battle and campaign of the Army of Tennessee except the Battle of Perryville .
The unit was composed primarily of Southern loyalists from the Tennessee counties of Knox, Sevier and Blount. [1] Notably, among the enlisted were two women pretending to be men: Frances Elizabeth Quinn and Sarah Bradbury. The regiment's original muster rolls were destroyed at Nolensville, Tennessee on December 30, 1862.
In military organization, the term muster is the process or event of accounting for members in a military unit. This practice of inspections led to the coining of the English idiom pass muster, meaning being sufficient. When a unit is created, it is "mustered in" and when it is disbanded, it is "mustered out".
The 62nd Tennessee was formed on October 8 and mustered into service on November 11 at Sweetwater, Tennessee. At Vicksburg, the Regiment was taken prisoner; it was released in late July 1863. In January 1864 the Regiment was Mounted and declared exchanged on June 27, 1864. They served remainder of war in Vaughn's Brigade in East Tennessee and ...
The Titans fell 19-16 to the Houston Texans in overtime Sunday when kicker Ka'imi Fairbairn hit a 54-yard field goal as time expired. Tennessee falls to 5-9 after leading for most of the game; it ...
It never was re-armed as artillery, but instead two companies, which had been organized in December 1862 were added to it, and it was formed into a battalion with the election of Captain Frank Maney as major. reorganized May 1, 1863; served as Sharpshooters for Maney's Brigade, Cheatham's Division, Army of Tennessee; as part of 1st Consolidated ...
The 2nd Tennessee Heavy Artillery (African Descent) was organized at Columbus, Kentucky and mustered in for three years under the command of Colonel Charles H. Adams. As was custom at the time, the regiment was designated the 2nd Tennessee (Colored) Heavy Artillery.