5th Tennessee Infantry Regiment

This article is about the Confederate regiment. For the Union regiment, see 5th Tennessee Infantry Regiment (Union).

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. ^{[2] [3]}

See also

• List of Tennessee Confederate Civil War units

References

1. "Bibliography of Tennessee Civil War Unit Histories > Confederate". Tennessee Secretary of State. Archived from the original on 2015-07-23. Retrieved 2015-07-27.
2. "5th Regiment, Tennessee Infantry". National park Service. Archived from the original on October 20, 2021. Retrieved July 14, 2017.
3. "5th Tennessee Infantry Regiment". Civil War Reference. Archived from the original on 29 September 2011. Retrieved 23 June 2011.

• Project, TNGenWeb. "5th Tennessee Infantry Regiment". TNGenWeb Project. Jim Cole. Archived from the original on 21 February 2019. Retrieved 10 March 2020.

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.