20th TN Infantry
Organized: Camp Trousdale, Sumner County, TN on 6/12/61
Mustered Out: 4/9/65 at Smithfield, NC
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William T. Harris, age 22, Company K, 20th Tennessee Infantry*, enlisted June 9, 1861 at Camp Trousdale by Major J. G. Pickett for one year, elected 3rd Lieutenant May 8,1862, promoted 2nd Lieutenant July 24, 1862, 1st Lieutenant September 1, furloughed December 30, 1863, woumded, slightly in the leg, at the Battle of Chickamauga September 19/20, 1863, captured near Nashville, Tennessee December 16, 1864, sent to Johnson Island, Ohio prison camp December 20, subscribed to an Oath of Allegiance to the United States June 16, 1865 and released, age 23, resident of Eulia, Tenn., fair complexion, light hair, gray eyes, 5' 9"
* This company was known at various times as Captain Austin's Company, Company I and Company K, 20th Regiment Tennessee Infantry
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T. G. Harris, age 25, Private, Company K, 20th Tennessee Infantry, enlisted June 9, 1861 at Camp Trousdale by Major J. G. Pickett for one year, elected 4th Corporal September 1, 1862, elected 4th Sergeant March 3, 1863, wounded, severely in the leg, at the Battle of Chickamauga September 19, 1863, admitted to hospital, furloughed, March 24, 1864, by order Medical Board at Oxford, Georgia, no further records
M268: Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Tennessee
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Chickamagua after battle report:
Report of Maj. W. M. Shy, Twentieth Tennessee Infantry.
HDQRS. TWENTIETH TENNESSEE REGT.,
Near Chattanooga, Tenn., October 6, 1863.
SIR:I beg leave to submit the following report of the part borne
by the Twentieth Tennessee Regt. in the late battle of
Chickamauga:
On Friday night, September 18, the regiment, under command
of Col. T. B. Smith, bivouacked with Bate's brigade near
Alexander's Bridge, over West Chickamauga River.
At 3 p. m., September 19, under orders from Brig.-Gen. Bate,
we moved forward and engaged the enemy. Both officers and
men of the regiment fought well. In the early part of the
engagement Col. T. B. Smith was wounded, and I assumed
command. We ceased fighting near sunset. We bivouacked on the
field during the night.
Under orders from Gen. Bate, we assumed our position in the
line at about 7 o'clock on the morning of the 20th. At
about-o'clock we engaged the enemy and fought, perhaps,
three-quarters of an hour. We were not engaged any more during
the battle. Both officers and men did their duty in the second
day's engagement.
Respectfully,
W. M. SHY,
Maj., Comdg. Twentieth Tennessee Regt.
[Maj.] GEORGE W. WINCHESTER,
[Acting] Assistant Adjutant-Gen., Bate's Brigade.
Source: Official Records
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