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| The Fourth Tennessee Cavalry did not assume regimental form until
General Bragg had returned from his Kentucky campaign in the fall of 1862.
It was made up of detachments that had served under different commanders
since the beginning of the war. At its organization Baxter Smith was made
Colonel; W. Scott Bledoe, Major; J. A. Minnis, Adjutant; W. A. Rushing,
Sergeant Major; Marcellus Grissim, Quartermaster, with R. O. McLean, Bob
Corder, and John Price his assistants; Captain Bone, Commissary, with Lieut.
J. A. Arnold and Captain McLean his assistants; Dr. W. T. Delaney, Surgeon,
with Dr. Tom Allen his assistant; Rev. W. W. Hendrix, Chaplain; Sergeant
Finney, Ordinance Officer; J. A. Stewart and James B. ance, Regimental
Buglers; Bob Gann and Bennett Chapman Wagon Masters.
The commissioned officers of the companies were:
The Regiment was assigned to a brigade composed of the Eighth Texas, Eleventh Texas, First Kentucky, and Fourth Tennessee Regiments and Malone's Alabama Battalion, Col. Tom Harrison as Senior Colonel commanding the brigade, Maj. Gen. John A. Wharton commanding the division (Gen. Joe Wheeler's Corps, Army of Tennessee), and sent to Franklin, Tennessee, on outpost duty. General Bragg, with the infantry force, was at Murfreesboro, confronting General Rose-crans's Federal army at Nashville. It is well enough to state here that there were two Fourth Tennessee Cavalry Regiments in the army - Colonel Stearns's Fourth Tennessee and Colonel Smith's Fourth Tennessee. They had been serving in different departments of the army, one under General Forrest and the other under General Wheeler, most of the time, and we did not know the fact until late in the war. Both had made character under that name, and each tacitly agreed to remain as they had been known, which they did. At the date of the organization of the Fourth Tenn-essee Cavalry Regiment it numbered one thousand men, rank and file, made up principally of stout, healthy, and vigorous young men. A partial list of the casualties in the
Field Officers: Col. Baxter Smith. saber wound at Woodbury, Tenn, 1883; Lieut. Col. Paul F. Anderson, wounded at Fort Donelson, Tenn., 1863; Maj. Scott Bledsoe, wounded at Fort Donelson. Tenn., 1863; Capt. Marcellus Grissim, quartermaster, killed in Wheeler's raid. 1864. Company A: Killed - J. C. Bell, in Bragg's Kentucky
campaign, 1862; James Reed, at Perryville, Ky.; W. J. Curren, at Morrison
Station, Tn.; Frank Crockett, at Morrison Station, Tn.; W. J. Neil, at
Morrison Station, Tn.;
Company A: Wounded (partial list) - Capt. D. W. Alexander, at Murfreesboro, Tn.; First Lieut. A. R. McLean, at Tunnel Hill and Chickamauga, Ga; Lon Fagan, at Fort Donelson, Tn. 1863; Polk Hutton, at Murfreesboro, Tn.; Jo Yarbrough, at Franklin, Tn. 1862; Charlie Ransom, at Murfreesboro, Tn.; Sam Waller, at Murfreesboro, Tn; W. R. Wynn, at Murfreesboro, Tn; George Slaughter, at Perryville, Ky; John R. Mallard, at Buckhead Church, Ga, 1864; James Arnold, at Resaca, Ga, 1864; Billy Wilson, at Tunnel Hill, Ga; Tom Fagan, at Fort Donelson, Tn. 1863; Ben Nevels, at Fort Donelson, Tn.; P. A. Lyons, at Griswoldville, Ga, 1864. Died of Disease During War (partial list) - James Davis, James Gentry, David Watts, Tim Hare, Nick Oglesby, James Thompson, Newt Hargrove. I hereby acknowledge the assistance I have had from Comrade Capt. R. O. McLean for a report of casualties of his old company. He made a visit to Marshall County to confer with the few surviving comrades before submitting the list. He was a citizen of Marshall County when his company was first organized in 1861. He was then elected a lieutenant, when the company was sent to West Virginia, and he served through the campaign Gen. R. E. Lee made in that section. The company returned to Tennessee in 1862. When the company was reorganized, he did not offer himself as a candidate; and when it was attached to and formed part of the Fourth Tennessee Cavalry Regiment, in 1862, he was made assistant to the quartermaster, Capt. Marcellus Grissim. When Grissim was killed, McLean supplied his place as quartermaster, surrend-ering as such at Greensboro, N.C., in 1865. Members of the Regiment Now Living.
Field and Staff: Col. Baxter Smith, Chattanooga, Tn; Adjt. George B. Guild, Nashville, Tn.; Sergt. Maj. W. A. Rushing, Lebanon, Tn; Surgeon W. T. Delaney, Bristol, Va; Assistant Surgeon J. T. Allen, Caney Spring, Tn.; Acting Quarter-master R. O. McLean, Nashville, Tn; Acting Assistant Quartermaster Bob Corder, Williamson Co. Tn; Acting Commissary First Lieut. J. T. Barbee, Sardis, Ky. Company A: Dr. Tom Allen, Caney Spring, Tn.; Joe Yarbrough, Lewisburg,
Tn.; James Tippett, Greenville, Tex.; Thomas Sherron, Chapel Hill, Tn.;
William Edwards, Chapel Hill, Tn.; Scott Davis, Lewisburg, Tn.; Joe Yarbrough
(second) Lewisburg, Tn; W. R. Wynn, Lewisburg, Tn; Polk Warner, Lewisburg,
Tn.; Ben Jobe, Paris, Tn.; Jim Wilbern, Oklahoma; Melville Porter, McKenzie,
Tn; William ("Dutch") Alexander, Chattanooga, Tn.; Gid Alexander, New Orleans,
La.
The following (taken from Mrs. Kitty Davis' Scrapbook) is The Muster Roll of the "MARSHALL RANGERS" - Conpany A., Fourth Tenn. Cavalry, Harrison's Brigade, Wharton's Division, Wheeler's Corps, CSA as it left Nashville for Virginia, July 18th, 1861. The Company was sworn into service June 18th, 1861, at the Fair Grounds in Nashville, by James G. Pickett: Commissioned Officers:
Non Commissioned Officers:
Privates:
R. E. Fields
M. T. O'Neal
D. D. Stanley
The Company surrendered near Charlotte, NC, May 4, 1865, within a few days of four years of active, hard service. The “RANGERS” were among the first, if they were not the first, mounted Company furnished by the State for actual Confederate service.
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