Benjamin F. Paine [sic], age 30, Private, Company G, 3rd Tennessee Mounted Infantry, joined for duty and enrolled January 1, 1864 in Roane County, Tenn. for 100 days, mustered-in October 1, 1864 in Roane County, mustered out November 30, 1864, later corrected to December 22, 1864

M395: Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Tennessee

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Benjamin F. Paine

Residence was not listed;
Enlisted as a Private
"G" Co. TN 3rd Mtd Infantry

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- Index to Compiled Military Service Records

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Third Mounted Infantry
TENNESSEE (3 MONTHS)

Third Mounted Infantry. -- Lieut.-Col., Joseph Devine; Maj.,
James L. Carter. This was a three-months' regiment and was
never fully organized.

It was mustered out Nov. 30, 1864, by reason of expiration of
term of service.

Source: The Union Army, vol. 4, p. 389

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The report of Adjutant General J. P. Brownlow, State of Tennessee, dated March 1, 1866, stated this was a three-months organization, and did no service, never being fully organized. Dyers Compendium mentions a skirmish at Lee's Ferry on September 6, and at Greeneville, on October 12, 1864. No reference to the regiment was found in the Official Records.
Tennesseans in the Civil War, Part 1, Civil War Centennial Commission, Nashville, Tennessee, 1964, p. 357