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Looks like he had a brother in Company L also. There seems to be no good information available on this regiment. Your best bet would be to obtain his service records through the service noted in the red enclosed box above.

As he is not recorded being transferred to the 9th as Andrew was, he may well have been among those captured, sitting out the war in a prison camp.

George Martin

George Day

Residence was not listed;
Enlisted as a Private
"L" Co. TN 11th Cavalry

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Andrew J. Day

Residence was not listed;
Enlisted as a Private (date unknown).

On 1/9/1865 he transferred into "M" Co. TN 9th Cavalry
(date and method of discharge not given)

"L" Co. TN 11th Cavalry

Sources used by Historical Data Systems, Inc.:

- Index to Compiled Military Service Records
- Official Army Register of the Volunteer Force 1861-1865

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Eleventh Cavalry
TENNESSEE
(3-YEARS)

Eleventh Cavalry. -- Col., Isham Young; Lieut.-Col., Reuben A.
Davis; Majs., Alexander D. Rhea, James H. Johnson, Edward
Black.

The recruiting for this regiment was begun at Camp Nelson,
Ky., where the greater part of five companies was raised. On
Aug. 16, 1863, Isham Young, Reuben Davis and J. H. Johnson,
the last two of whom had organized the above companies, were
commissioned by Gov. Johnson to raise a regiment of cavalry to
be designated the 11th Tenn. cavalry, and by Oct. 21 all the
companies except Co. M, which numbered only 46 men had been
filled and organized. On that date Col. Young received his
commission and the organization of the regiment then at
Knoxville, was completed.

The regiment remained at Knoxville until after the siege when
it was ordered to upper East Tennessee. Five companies under
Maj. Black were sent to Morristown, and the remaining five
companies under command of Lieut.- Col. Davis were stationed
at Cumberland Gap.

They did scout duty along the Virginia line until Feb., 1864,
when nearly the entire command was captured. The remainder of
the regiment remained in East Tennessee until consolidated
with the 9th cavalry Jan. 9, 1865, in accordance with orders
from the war department.

Source: The Union Army, vol. 4, p. 387

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11th Regiment, Tennessee Cavalry

Organized at large May to October, 1863. Attached to Willcox's Division, Left Wing Forces 23rd Army Corps, Dept. of the Ohio, to January, 1864. District of the Clinch to April, 1864. 1st Brigade, 4th Division, 23rd Army Corps, Dept. of the Ohio, to January, 1865.

SERVICE.-Joined DeCourcy at Crab Orchard, Ky., August 24, 1863. March to Cumberland Gap September 24-October 3. Operations about Cumberland Gap till February, 1864. Mulberry Creek January 3. Tazewell January 24. Near Jonesville January 28-29. Skirmishes on Jonesville and Mulberry Roads February 12. Gibson and Wyerman's Mills on Indian Creek, and at Powell's Bridge February 22. Duty at and about Cumberland Gap guarding communications with Knoxville till January, 1865. Action at Johnsonville, Tenn., November 4-5, 1864. Mustered out by consolidation with 9th Tennessee Cavalry January 9, 1865.
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