The 9th Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry Regiment was a cavalry

Cavalry

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 regiment

Regiment

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 that served in the Union Army

Union Army

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 during the American Civil War

American Civil War

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Service

The 9th Tennessee Cavalry was organized August 25, 1863 in Knoxville, Tennessee

Knoxville, Tennessee

Founded in 1786, Knoxville is the third-largest city in the U.S. state of Tennessee, U.S.A., behind Memphis and Nashville, and is the county seat of Knox County. It is the largest city in East Tennessee, and the second-largest city in the Appalachia region...

 and mustered in for a three year enlistment under the command of Colonel

Colonel (United States)

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 Joseph H. Parsons. The 11th Tennessee Cavalry

11th Regiment Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry

The 11th Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry Regiment was a cavalry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. The regiment was also known as 1st East Tennessee Cavalry Battalion and 11th East Tennessee Cavalry Regiment.-Service:...

 was consolidated into the regiment on March 24, 1864.

The regiment was attached to District of North Central Kentucky, Department of the Ohio

Department of the Ohio

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, to April 1864. 3rd Brigade, 4th Division, Cavalry Corps, Army of the Cumberland

Army of the Cumberland

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, to October 1864. 3rd Brigade, 4th Division, Cavalry Corps, Military Division Mississippi, to November 1864. District of East Tennessee, Department of the Cumberland, to March 1865. 3rd Brigade, Cavalry Division, District of East Tennessee, to July 1865. Cavalry Brigade, District of East Tennessee, to September 1865.

The 9th Tennessee Cavalry mustered out of service September 11, 1865 at Knoxville, Tennessee.

Detailed service

Joined Col. John F. DeCourcy at Crab Orchard, Ky.. September 24, 1863. Duty at Crab Orchard, Ky., until October 1863. (A detachment on march to Cumberland Gap September 24-October 3, 1863, and operations about there.) Duty in District of East Tennessee, at Knoxville, Nashville, and on line of the Nashville & Chattanooga Railroad, and at Bull's Gap, Tenn., until October 1864. Rogersville August 21, 1864. Pursuit to Greenville August 21–23. Blue Springs August 23. Operations in eastern Tennessee August 29-September 4. Park Gap and Greenville September 4. Death of Gen. J. H. Morgan. Gillem's Expedition from eastern Tennessee toward southwest Virginia September 20-October 17. Rheatown September 28. Watauga River September 29. Carter's Station September 29-October 1. Operations in eastern Tennessee October 10–28. Greenville October 12. Bull's Gap October 16. Clinch Mountain October 18. Clinch Valley, near Sneedsville, October 21. Mossy Creek and Panther Gap October 27. Morristown and Russellville October 28. Operations against Breckenridge's advance into eastern Tennessee November 4–17. Russellville November 11. Bull's Gap November 11–14. Russellville November 14. Strawberry Plains November 16–17. Flat Creek November 17. Stoneman's Expedition to Saltville, Va., December 10–29. Big Spring, near Rogersville, December 12. Kingsport December 13. Glade Springs December 15. Marion and capture of Wytheville December 16. Mt. Airy December 17. Engagement near Marion December 17–18. Capture and destruction of Saltville December 20–21. Duty in eastern Tennessee until March 1865. Stoneman's Raid into southwest Virginia and western North Carolina March 21-April 25. Wytheville April 6. Shallow Ford and near Mocksville, N.C., April 11. Salisbury April 12. Catawba River April 17. Swannanoa Gap, N.C., April 20. Near Hendersonville April 23. Duty in eastern Tennessee until September.

See also

• List of Tennessee Civil War units
• Tennessee in the Civil War
  Tennessee in the Civil War
  To a large extent, the American Civil War was fought in cities and farms of Tennessee; only Virginia saw more battles. Tennessee was the last of the Southern states to declare secession from the Union, but saw more than its share of the devastation resulting from years of warring armies...
  
  

External links

• Brief unit history, including officers' names, regimental strengths, etc.