5th Tennessee Infantry Regiment explained

The 5th Tennessee Infantry was an infantry regiment from Tennessee that served in the Confederate States Army.^[1] The unit was organization at Paris, Henry County, Tennessee, on May 20, 1861.^[2] The regiment fought at New Madrid, Battle of Shiloh, Perryville, Murfreesboro, and Chickamauga.^[3]

See also

• List of Tennessee Confederate Civil War units

References

• Web site: Project . TNGenWeb . 5th Tennessee Infantry Regiment . TNGenWeb Project . Jim Cole . 10 March 2020 . 21 February 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190221083057/http://tngenweb.org/civilwar/5th-tennessee-infantry-regiment/ . live .

Further reading

• Goodspeed Publishing Co. “Confederate Military History.” In History of Tennessee, Vol. 1, 513–617. Nashville, TN: The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1887. Reprint, Easley, SC: Southern Historical Press, 1979.
• Head, Thomas A. “The Fifth Regiment Tennessee Volunteers.” In Campaigns and Battles of the Sixteenth Regiment, Tennessee Volunteers, in the War Between the States with Incidental Sketches of the Part Performed by Other Tennessee Troops in the Same War, 1861–1865, 191–267. Nashville, TN: Cumberland Presbyterian Publishing House, 1885.
• Irion, John T. “Fifth Tennessee Infantry”. In The Military Annals of Tennessee. Confederate, compiled and edited by John Berrien Lindsley, 195–204. Nashville, TN: J. M. Lindsley & Co., 1886. Reprint, Wilmington, NC: Broadfoot Publishing Co., 1995.
• Rennolds, Lt. Edwin H. “History of the Fifth Regiment Tennessee Infantry.” In A History of the Henry County Commands Which Served in the Confederate States Army, Including Rosters of the Various Companies Enlisted in Henry County, Tennessee, 20-178, Jacksonville, FL: Sun Publishing Co., 1904.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Bibliography of Tennessee Civil War Unit Histories > Confederate . Tennessee Secretary of State . 2015-07-27 . 2015-07-23 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150723035656/http://www.state.tn.us/tsla/history/military/cwunits2.htm . live .
2. Web site: 5th Regiment, Tennessee Infantry. National park Service. July 14, 2017. October 20, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20211020101708/https://www.nps.gov/civilwar/search-battle-units-detail.htm?battleUnitCode=CTN0005RI. live.
3. Web site: 5th Tennessee Infantry Regiment. Civil War Reference. 23 June 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20110929103928/http://www.civilwarreference.com/regiments/detail.php?regID=3641. 29 September 2011. dead. dmy-all.