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TENNESSEE DAVIS' CAVALRY BATTALION
Organized with 4 previously independent companies and mustered inyo Confederate service at Bardstown, KY 09/27/1862
Consolidated with portions of other units & designated as the 8th [Smith's] Cavalry Regt at Shelbyville on 01/27/1863.
FIRST COMMANDER: John R. Davis, Major
ASSIGNMENTS:
Wharton's Cavalry Brigade, Army of TN - Dec 1862
Wharton's Brigade, Wheeler's Cav Div, Army of TN - Dec 1862-Jan 1863
BATTLES:
Franklin 12/12/1862
Murfreesboro 12/31/1862-01/03/1863

[Sifakis, Compendium of the Confederate Armies - Tennessee - pp 79]

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