The Daily Dispatch: April 30, 1861., [Electronic resource]

Tennessee.

‘ Our sister Southern cities may be anxious to know what Nashville, the capital of the Volunteer State, is doing in the cause. Up to this time, the companies organized are as follows: The Rock City Guard Battalion, composed of three companies; Tennessee Rifles, Cheatham Rifles, Jackson Irish Volunteers, Old Hickory Guards, Hermitage Light Infantry, Beauregard Light Infantry, Harris Guards, N. & C. Depot Boys, Nashville Greys, Nashville Guards, Tennessee Hangers, (cavalry,) Nashville Shelby Dragoons, (cavalry,) Breckinridge Rangers, Bell Greys,

8th Ward Home Guards, North Nashville Home Guards, Tennessee Artillery and Nashville Artillery — in all twenty-one, and footing up 2,500 men. In addition to those organized in the city, we learn that there is not a civil district in the county where one or more companies have not been formed. Davidson county alone can march into service to-day 4,000 good soldiers, with a sufficient number left for home protection.

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