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2nd Tennessee Mounted Infantry

from the B. R. Jennings collection

Most Decatur Countians serving in the Union Army were part of the 2nd Tennessee Mounted Infantry.  The following summary of the service of the 2nd Tennessee Mounted Infantry is taken from Frederick H. Dyer's A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion, Morningside Bookshop Dayton, OH, 1978.

Organization

Organized at Nashville, Clifton and Franklin, Tenn., October 2, 1863, to April 10, 1864.  Attached to Defences of Nashville & Louisville Railroad, Dept. of the Cumberland, to March, 1865. 2nd Brigade, District of East Tennessee, Dept. of the Cumberland, to June, 1865.

Service

Duty at Clifton and on line of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad till November, 1864. Stone's Mill December 19, 1863. Skirmish in Berry [Perry] County April 29, 1864. Decatur County June 21. Centreville July. Blount County July 20. Skirmishes at Clifton July 22, 23, 30 and August 15-16. Marysville August 21. Clinton Road August 27. Clifton August 31 and September 1. Lobelville and Beardstown September 27. Centreville September 29. Moved to Johnsonville, Tenn., November, 1864, and duty on line of Duck River. Ordered to Gallatin December 9. Patrol river from Gallatin to Carthage. Duty at Clifton and on line of Louisville & Nashville Railroad till June. Mustered out June 27, 1865.

[Note:  The references to Blount Co., Clinton Road and Marysville above are not supported by the Official Record.  The author may have confused the 2nd TMI with another unit.  The geographic separation of these locations would probably have prevented engagements so closely spaced in time.]

Lost during service 3 Officers and 30 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 3 Officers and 78 Enlisted men by disease.
Total 114.

2nd Tennessee Mounted Infantry Index

• Roster - 2nd Tennessee Mounted Infantry
• Confederate Soldier Reminisces of Days During the Civil War
• Some of the Ways and Doings of the Early Times
• John C. Whitson Pension Application
• History of the Shoals
• The Battle at Centerville
• Elias Thrasher and The Buttermilk Rangers
• Another View of the Buttermilk Rangers
• John Hayes
• J. H. Jennings Letter from Johnsonville - 1864
• John H. Jennings Oath of Allegiance
• John H. Jennings Gallatin Medical Discharge
• John H. Jennings Soldier's Certificate
• Military Record - 2nd Tennessee Mounted Infantry
• Report of Lieutenant-Commander Fitch, U. S. Navy regarding the Cumberland River
• Scout from Lexington to mouth of Duck River, Tenn.
• The Tennessee River Voyages of U.S.S. Peosta
• USS Peosta from Warships and Naval Battles of the Civil War By Tony Gibbons
• March 12, 1862, Letter from Savannah, www.tennessee.civilwarsourcebook.com
• August 16, 1864, Scout and Skirmish near Clifton, www.tennessee.civilwarsourcebook.com
• September 29-30, 1864, Calvary Engagements, www.tennessee.civilwarsourcebook.com
• New Tennessee Civil War Tool
• Grand Army of the Republic
• Richard M. Brewer and Sanders Brewer from Wayne Co. TNGenWeb
• 2nd Tennessee Mounted Infantry Index To Pensioners from Wayne Co. TNGenWeb
• 2nd Tennessee Mounted Infantry Regiment, U.S.A. from Tennesseans in the Civil War
• Special Census Schedule, 189O: Civil War Survivors
• J. G. Montgomery Enlistment