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12th Tennessee Regiment Cavalry

Organized at Nashville, Tenn., August 24, 1863.

Attached to District of Nashville, Dept. of the Cumberland, to January.

1864.

Defenses of Nashville & Northwestern Railroad to April, 1864.

2nd Brigade, 4th Division. Cavalry Corps, Dept. of the Cumberland, to October, 1864.

2nd Brigade, 4th Division, Cavalry Corps, Military Division Mississippi, to December, 1864.

2nd Brigade, 5th Division, Cavalry Corps, Military Division Mississippi, to February, 1865.

1st Brigade, 5th Division, Cavalry Corps, Military Division Mississippi, to May, 1865.

Dept. of the Missouri to October, 1865.


Service.

Scout to Florence, Ala., July 20-25, 1863 (Detachment).

Duty at Nashville and on Nashville & Northwestern Railroad at Pulaski, Tenn., till November, 1864.

Duck River April 22, 1864.

Scout in Hickman and Maury Counties May 2-12.

Lincoln County June 14.

Scout from Pulaski to Florence, Ala., July 20-25 (Detachment).

Triune August 3-4.

Florence August 10.

Operations against Forest in North Alabama and Middle Tennessee September 16-October 10.

Richland Creek, near Pulaski, September 26.

Pulaski September 26-27.

Nashville Campaign November-December.

On line of Shoal Creek November 5-20.

Campbellsville and Lynnville November 24.

In front of Columbia November 24-27.

Franklin November 30.

Battle of Nashville December 15-16.

Pursuit of Hood to the Tennessee River December 17-28.

West Harpeth River December 17.

Spring Hill December 18.

Rutherford Creek December 19.

Curtis Creek December 19.

Lawrenceburg December 22.

Lynnville and Richland Creek December 24.

King's Gap, near Pulaski, December 25.

At Gravelly Springs, Ala., till February, 1865.

At Eastport, Miss., till May.

Moved to St. Louis, Mo., May 15-17, thence to Rolla, Mo., June 20-26, and to Fort Riley, Kan., June 29-July 8.

Powder River Expedition July to September.

Mustered out October 7, 1865.

Regiment lost during service 5 Officers and 28 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 2 Officers and 191 Enlisted men by disease. Total 226.

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