Colonel George H. Nixon had formerly been colonel of the 48th (Nixon's) Tennessee Infantry Regiment. After the Battle of Chickamauga, September, 1863, this regiment was placed in a field consolidation with the 35th (Hill's) Tennessee Infantry, and Colonel Nixon, Lieutenant Colonel Hughs, and other officers of the 48th, placed on the supernumerary list. They were directed by the Secretary of War to raise within the enemy lines in Tennessee a command of cavalry. The command so raised never received official designation by the Adjutant and Inspector Generars Office, but was known in the field as the 20th, the 22nd, or as Nixon's Regiment. No muster rolls, regimental returns, nor rosters of the regiment were found, but the regiment was first mentioned in the Official Records in March, 1864. Parole records, prisoner of war records, etc. show that Colonel George H. Nixon was the colonel; T. R. Hughs, formerly of the 48th Infantry, lieutenant colonel; and Captain Calvin Gilbert in command of the regiment March 15, 1865.

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During November and December, 1864, Nixon's regiment was in Colonel (later Brigadier General) T. H. Bell's Brigade, of Forrest's command, in the invasion of Tennessee by. General Hood, ending with the Battles of Franklin and of Nashville. After the termination of this campaign, Forrest's forces withdrew into Mississippi, where on February 13, 1865, General Forrest ordered all the Tennessee troops in his command to report to Brigadier General W. H. Jackson at Verona, Mississippi, for consolidation into six regiments. Nixon's Regiment was one of those specifically named in the order. A regimental roster dated March 15, 1865, at West Point, Mississippi, Captain Gilbert commanding, gave a list of deserters on the march from Verona, Mississippi to West Point.

Soon after this, Nixon's Regiment was consolidated with the 14th (Neely's), 15th (Stewart's-Logwood's) and 21st (N. W. Carter's) Regiments to form Nixon's Consolidated Regiment. Captain Zillman Voss, of the 14th, and Captain Newt I. Vaughn, of Nathan W. Carter's Regiment commanded companies in the consolidated regiment.

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