1st Tennessee Cavalry Regiment (Union)

1st Tennessee Cavalry Regiment
Field and staff of the 1st Tennessee Cavalry Regiment (Union), photographed late August 1864;[1] Col. Jim Brownlow, seated front and center, was in 70 battles and skirmishes[2] and had four horses killed under him[3] during the course of the war
ActiveNovember 1862 to June 1865
CountryUnited States
AllegianceUnion
BranchCavalry
EngagementsTullahoma Campaign
Battle of Chickamauga
Atlanta Campaign
Siege of Atlanta
Battle of Lovejoy's Station
Battle of Franklin
Battle 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.

  1. ^ Baggett, James Alex (2009). Homegrown Yankees: Tennessee's Union Cavalry in the Civil War. Louisiana State University Press. p. 165. ISBN 978-0807133989 – via Project MUSE.
  2. ^ "Recent deaths. Boston Evening Transcript 29 Apr 1879, page 4". Newspapers.com. Retrieved 2023-06-29.
  3. ^ Armstrong, Zella (1927). "Brownlow". Notable Southern families. Vol. 1. Chattanooga, Tenn.: The Lookout Pub. Co. p. 43.