1st Tennessee Cavalry Regiment

1st Tennessee & Alabama Independent Vidette Cavalry 1st Tennessee Cavalry Regiment File:1st Tennessee Cavalry Regiment (Union) - field and staff of the regiment - 1864 04.jpg Field and staff of the 1st Tennessee Cavalry Regiment (Union), photographed late August 1864;James Alex Baggett 165 Homegrown Yankees: Tennessee's Union Cavalry in the Civil War Louisiana State University Press 2009 Project MUSE 978-0807133989 https://muse.jhu.edu/book/16499 Col. Jim Brownlow, seated front and center, was in 70 battles and skirmishesRecent deaths. Boston Evening Transcript 29 Apr 1879, page 4 https://www.newspapers.com/image/735186697/ 2023-06-29 Newspapers.com en and had four horses killed under himArmstrong Zella https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100402288 Notable Southern families. 1927 The Lookout Pub. Co. 1 Chattanooga, Tenn. 43 en-us Brownlow during the course of the war November 1862 to June 1865 United States Union Cavalry Tullahoma CampaignBattle of ChickamaugaAtlanta campaignSiege of AtlantaBattle of Lovejoy's StationBattle of FranklinBattle of Nashville The 1st Tennessee Cavalry Regiment was a cavalry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It was also known as 1st East Tennessee Cavalry. The regiment was organized and was nominally commanded by Robert Johnson, the second son of Tennessee politician and Southern Unionist Andrew Johnson, but in truth the regimental commander was James P. Brownlow, the second son of Parson Brownlow. Service The 1st Tennessee Cavalry was organized in November 1862 at Camp Dennison, Ohio, by mounting the 4th Tennessee Volunteer Regiment. It was mustered in for a three-year enlistment under the command of Colonel Robert Johnson. The regiment was attached to: Camp Dennison, Ohio, to December 1862 Reserve Brigade, Cavalry Division, Army of the Cumberland, to January 1863. 1st Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, Army of the Cumberland, to November 1864. 1st Brigade, 1st Division, Cavalry Corps, Military Division Mississippi, to January 1865. District Middle Tennessee, Department of the Cumberland, to June 1865. The 1st Tennessee Cavalry mustered out of service at Nashville, Tennessee during April and June 1865. Circa February 1863, the New York Times reported:1863-02-05 GEN. ROSECRANS' DEPARTMENT.; The Army of the Cumberland Still at Murfreesboro--Repairing the Railroad Between Murfreesboro and Nashville--Interruptions by the Rebel Cavalry--Necessity for More National Cavalry--The Anderson Troop, &c. en-US The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/1863/02/05/archives/gen-rosecrans-department-the-army-of-the-cumberland-still-at.html 2023-06-30 0362-4331 The fine regiment of Col. ROBERT JOHNSON, son of the Military Governor of Tennessee, is daily expected to arrive here. This regiment was changed from infantry to cavalry, and numbers between eleven and twelve hundred men. The order constituting the regiment cavalry instead of infantry was a wise one, and should be followed in regard to several regiments now stationed in Nashville. Casualties The regiment lost a total of 356 men during service; 4 officers and 56 enlisted men were killed or mortally wounded, 3 officers and 293 enlisted men died of disease or accident.Fox, William F., Lt.-Col., 'Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1861-1865', Albany, N.Y., 1889, p. 519. Commanders thumb|Colonel James P. Brownlow in History of the First regiment of Tennessee volunteer cavalry in the great war of the rebellion, with the armies of the Ohio and Cumberland by William Randolph Carter (1902) Colonel Robert Johnson - resigned May 31, 1864, due to "illness" (alcoholism)Bergeron Paul H. 2001 Robert Johnson: The President's Troubled and Troubling Son Journal of East Tennessee History Knoxville, TN East Tennessee Historical Society 73 1–22 1058-2126 760067571 none yes Colonel James P. Brownlow - commanded at the Battle of Chickamauga as lieutenant colonel; he was promoted immediately following Johnson's resignation; per the regimental history, "a promotion he well-deserved, since he was the real commander"Carter 1902 72 Lieutenant Colonel Calvin M. Dyer - commanded at the Battle of Nashville; commissioned a lieutenant by Johnson, promoted to major in early 1863 and then to lieutenant colonel upon Johnson's resignation1866-02-28 Col. Calvin Dyer Obituary 2 Brownlow's Knoxville Whig https://www.newspapers.com/article/brownlows-knoxville-whig-col-calvin-dy/3807124/ 2023-06-17 Regimental flag On December 6, 1862, the occasion of the organization of the 1st Tennessee as cavalry (rather than infantry), Col. Johnson and Major William B. Tracy presented their soldiers with a "splendid flag" inscribed with the words For Chattanooga, Knoxville and Greeneville, "indicating the determination of the regiment to assist in driving the rebels out of Tennessee, and redeeming the State."Cleveland Daily Leader 1862-12-10 3 Newspapers.com https://www.newspapers.com/article/cleveland-daily-leader-first-tennessee-c/126557164/ 2023-06-16 First Tennessee CavalryFelix Letter from Camp Dennison Cincinnati Daily Commercial 1862-12-08 3 http://www.newspaperarchive.com/us/ohio/cincinnati/cincinnati-daily-commercial/1862/12-08/page-3/ NewspaperArchive.com 2023-06-26 The 34-star American flag, also inscribed Johnson's 1st Tennessee Cavalry and "bound round the edge with yellow silk fringe," was produced by Hamlin of Cincinnati, "the prince of military furnishers in the West." The Civil War diary of a soldier named John Coffee Williamson reported this flag, or a successor to it, was captured on September 1, 1864, along with Jim Brownlow breaking both legs.https://www.jstor.org/stable/42621268 42621268 The Civil War Diary of John Coffee Williamson Williamson J. C. Tennessee Historical Quarterly 1956 15 1 61–74 However, the regiment mustered out under that flag and the regimental history includes a photo of a very-warworn regimental flag with little more than the fringed border surviving, and reports that Col. Brownlow's mother had it in her possession and donated it to the fraternal organization of veterans of the regiment.Carter 1902 Major Tracy, who came from Chattanooga, was deemed, by Parson Brownlow, to be a schemer who was "keeping up...bad feelings." https://muse.jhu.edu/book/16499 70 Homegrown Yankees: Tennessee's Union Cavalry in the Civil War Baggett James Alex James Alex Baggett 978-0-8071-3398-9 Chapter 4: Between the Battles Tracy later resigned, dated June 22, 1863,Carter 1902 after a practical joke went sideways and he garnered the enmity of the men.Wherry William M. William M. Wherry https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433081765707&view=1up&seq=92&q1=Major%20Tracy The story of American heroism: thrilling narratives of personal adventures during the great civil war as told by the medal winners and roll of honor men ... 74 1897 J.W. Jones Springfield, Ohio VII HathiTrust See also American Civil War United States List of Tennessee Civil War units Tennessee in the Civil War References Sources Carter William Randolph http://archive.org/details/firstregiment00cartrich History of the First regiment of Tennessee volunteer cavalry in the great war of the rebellion, with the armies of the Ohio and Cumberland, under Generals Marogan, Rosecrans, Thomas, Stanley and Wilson 1902 Knoxville, Tenn., Gaut-Ogden co., printers University of California Libraries Dyer, Frederick H. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion (Des Moines, IA: Dyer Pub. Co.), 1908. Wiefering, Edna. Tennessee Union Soldiers Vol. 1 (Cleveland, TN: Cleveland Public Library), 1996. Attribution External links 1st Tennessee Cavalry living history organization Brief unit history, including officers' names, regimental strengths, etc. Lt. Col. Calvin Dyer Civil War photo album - 23 portraits - The men were in the 1st Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry Regiment in the Union Army Category:Military units and formations established in 1862 Category:Military units and formations disestablished in 1865 Category:Units and formations of the Union army from Tennessee Category:1865 disestablishments in Tennessee Category:1862 establishments in Ohio