Brief History of the 7th Tennessee Infantry Regiment

The 7th Tennessee Infantry Regiment
Submitted by Fredric Z. Saunders


The following information is from:  John Berrien Lindsley,  The Military Annals of Tennessee,  (Spartanburg, SC, Reprint Co., 1974 [c1886])  pp. 227-264, with the 33 page history of the Seventh Tennessee written by J. H. Moore, Centreville, TN, a member of the 7th Tennessee. 

 

Summary            Fatalities

 

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A brief summary of the 7th Tennessee Regiment

 

The 7th Tennessee was armed with Mississippi rifles for the first two years of the war. These were replaced by Springfield and Enfield rifles.

25 May 1861
Seventh Tennessee was organized at Camp Trousdale, in Sumner County. They drilled 6 hours a day to mid July. The First Tennessee Brigade was formed of the 1st, 7th, and 14th Regiments.

First TN brigade was ordered to Richmond, but with Confederate victory at Manassas, the orders were changed to join Gens. Lee and Loring.

 

Sep. 1861 
First TN brigade marched to Big Springs and campaign on Cheat Mountain, WV, suffering small losses. They then joined Gen. Floyd in Kanawha Valley, and then went to the Shenandoah Valley, Gen. Stonewall Jackson in command.  Seventh TN assigned to division under Gen. Loring.

During the Winter they went to Bath and Winchester, then Yorktown by way of Fredericksburg. There were small skirmishes and losses in the move from Yorktown to Richmond.

 

31 May 1862
Battle of Seven Pines  
Held in reserve till about 6 p.m. and ordered to reinforce Longstreet and Hill. Tennessee Brigade made final assault on Sumner's corps at sunset.  In 30 minutes Adjutant G. A. Howard, 8 of 10 company commanders, and half of the privates were either killed or wounded.

Assigned to position near Richmond again. Col. Archer of Fifth Texas made Brigadier-general of Tennessee Brigade, and they assigned to the division of A. P. Hill.

 

26 June 1862
Battle of Mechanicsville 
Considerable loss by the 7th

 

27 June 1862
Battle of Gaines Mill  
Made two assaults both repulsed with severe loss. With arrival of reinforcements, the third assault resulted in taking every position of the Union.

 

30 June 1862
Battle of Frazier's Farm (Glendale)
Considerable losses.

 

1 July 1862
Battle of Malvern Hill
Held in reserve, small losses from artillery fire.

 

9 Aug. 1862
Battle of Cedar Mountain
Arrived on field at 5 p.m. Sent to succor routed left wing.  Heavy losses.

 

27 August 1862
Battle of Manassas Junction
Small losses

 

28-30 August 1862
Second Battle of Manassas (Bull Run)
Not engaged on first day.  Second day repulsed three assaults on their position, then charged, and Union driven from position.  Third day drove Union from position.  Heavy losses.

 

14-15 Sep. 1862
Harper's Ferry
First day captured Bolivar Height for artillery.  Second day just beginning to move when garrison surrendered.

 

17 Sep. 1862
Antietam
Arrived late, advanced on Union which had forced their way across Antietam Creek, and drove them back into the creek. The 7th had been reduced by killed, wounded, sick and straggling to less than 100 men, of which more than 30 were killed and wounded here.

 

13 Dec. 1862
First Battle of Fredericksburg
Held position, charged and routed Federal postition. Overall confederate losses small, but most heavy among the 7th and 14th.

 

1-3 May 1863
Battle of Chancellorsville
Arrived late on first day.  Second day not engaged.  Third day, mistaken order led to Tennessee Brigade capturing high position, for artillery. After artillery assault, third infantry assault drove 
Union from Chancellor House.

Tennessee Brigade came under command of Gen. H. H. Heth as corp commander.

 

1-3 July 1863
Gettysburg
1st day involved in initial combat.  2nd day, held in reserve.  3rd day Heth's division part of "Pickett's Charge." 5000 men of Heth's division engaged, only about 1800 after battle.

 

14 Oct. 1863
Bristoe Station

 

26 Nov. 1863
Mine Run

 

5 May 1864
Wilderness

 

12 May 1864
Spotsylvania Court House
Stationed on right of Lee's army, and repulsed two assaults on their position.

 

3 June 1864
Cold Harbor
Repulsed three attacks on position.

Involved in many skirmishes, most unnamed, the rest of the year.

 

18-19 Aug. 1864
Heavy losses on Weldon railroad.

 

2 Apr. 1865
Attack on Fort Archer

 

9 Apr. 1865
Lee surrenders

 

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Fatalities of the 7th Tennessee Infantry Regiment

 

Company D

Samuel Baker k. accidentally 17 Aug. 1861
Thomas C. Bailey k. at Battle of Fredericksburg
William M. Bradshaw k. at Battle of Seven Pines
Thomas E. Brown k. at Battle of Mechanicsville
William J. Bruce d. at Winchester, VA 28 Feb. 1862
William L. Chambers d. at Winchester, VA 7 Feb. 1862
Andrew J. Coe k. at Cedar Run
James Fairchild d. at Richmond, VA 21 June 1864
Robert B. Freeman d. at Healing Springs 24 Oct. 1861
Thomas Green d. at Valley Mountain 14 Sep. 1861
George H. B. Halloman k. at Battle of Mechanicsville
Thomas W. Hatcher d. in prison at Fort Delaware 10 Aug. 1863
Albert Hearn k. at Seven Pines
George F. Hearn d. at Warm Springs 10 Nov. 1861
Hardy M. Hearn d. 14 Oct. 1861
Matthew T. Hearn d. 14 Oct. 1861
Robert J. Irby k. at Battle of Manassas
Henry D. Lester d. in prison at Fort Delaware 11 Feb. 1864
Lieut. William B. Martin k. at Knoxville Sep. 1861
Samuel Ragland k. at Battle of Seven Pines
John Seat d. at Staunton, VA 16 Dec. 1861
James M. Shaw d. at Ashland, VA 15 Apr. 1862
William Shoemake k. at Seven Pines
Haney Tribble k. at battle of Mechanicsville
John R. Womack k. at Seven Pines

 

         

Company F

James W. Adams k. at Chancellorsville
Martin H. Craddock d. 8 Oct. 1861
Thomas J. Hardwick k. at Seven Pines
Capt. Asaph Hill k. at Gettysburg
Francis M. Jennings k. at Sheperdstown
William Johnson d. at Knoxville 8 Aug. 1861
Commodore P. Patton d. 17 Feb. 1862
William D. Ricketts k. at Sharpsburg, MD
Oliver B. Stroud k. in action at Spotsylvania Court House, Va

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Company G

William T. Baird k. at Gettysburg
Hartwell H. Birdshaw k. at Gettysburg
Joseph H. Bright k. at Chancellorsville
B. F. Curry d. 29 May 1864
James Curry d. at Tullahoma, TN 17 Apr. 1862
William H. Davis k. at Seven Pines
E. Edwards k. at Seven Pines
James L. Grisom k. at Gettysburg
William H. Harrison k. at Gettysburg
Joseph Hide d. at Richmond, VA 9 July 1862
G. M. Huddleston d. from the effects of wounds 8 June 1864
Lafayette Hutchins k. at Fredicksburg
Lyttleton H. Johnson k. at Cedar Run 9 Aug. 1862
William D. Johns k. at Manassas 30 Aug. 1862
John W. Mount d. 2 Dec. 1861
John W. Nipper d. at Lynchburg 15 July 1862
John H. Ozment k. at Chancellorsville
Wiley H. Pool d. at White Sulphur Springs, 12 Oct. 1861
James T. Rice k. at Seven Pines
John Roberts k. at Gettysburg
Calvin G. Simmons k. at Seven Pines
James H. Sutton k. at Gettysburg
Andrew J. Thompson k. 8 Aug. 1862
William F. Woodrum d. 28 Oct. 1861
Peter B. Young k. at Fredericksburg

 

 

Company H

William B. Anderson d. at Healing Springs, VA
Pierce W. Bashaw k. at Gaine's Mill, VA
Joseph P. Beard k. at Seven Pines
Lieut. David M. Blythe d. at Winchester, VA 12 Jan. 1862
Thomas E. Buford k. at Seven Pines
Isham M. Dills d. at Staunton, VA
Rufus P. Doak k. at Manassas
Elihu L. Donnell k. at Cedar Run
George C. Grisham k. at Cedar Run
Samuel Harlin d. at Grimes Station, VA
Clack S. Harrison k. 23 Dec. 1861
Thomas J. Holloway k. at Gettysburg
Robert N. Jackson k. at Manassas
Samuel D. Majors k. at Sharpsburg, MD
William H. Matlock k. at Gaine's Mill
John D. New k. at Fredericksburg
Rolly W. Organ d. at Valley Mountain, VA
William P. Parker d. at Richmond 10 Aug. 1862
John W. Reeves k. at Cedar Run
John W. Tucker k. at Manassas

 

 

 

 

Company I

Thomas F. Anderson k. at Chancellorsville
William C. Baird k. at Fredericksburg
John T. Curd d. in Wilson Co., TN 1 Jan. 1863
William E. Curd k. at Gaine's Mill
Pleasant M. Eatherly k. at Seven Pines
Elijah S. Greer d. at Big Springs 30 Aug. 1861
Isaac F. Griffin k. at Spotsylvania Court House, VA
Andrew D. Hall k. at Chancellorsville
John W. P. Jackson d. 1 Feb. 1862
William P. D. Jetton d. at Valley Mountain 11 Sep. 1861
Archie B. Jones k. at Mechanicsville
William T. Lain d. 19 Nov. 1861
Alfred McClain k. at Seven Pines
John H. Neal d. at Warm Springs 15 Oct. 1862
Sion Peek k. near Richmond 8 June 1884 (sic)
John Rice d. at Richmond 20 May 1862
John E. Sullivan k. at Mechanicsville
J. W. Wilkerson k. at Fredericksburg
Henry D. Wings k. at Chancellorsville
Andrew W. Young k. at Chancellorsville

 

 

 

 

Company K

Lieut. Mitchell A. Anderson k. at Gettysburg
Abram Bostick k. at Seven Pines 31 May 1862
John D. Clemmons d. at Winchester
William A. Eddins k. at Gaine's Mill 28 Jan. 1862
Isaac J. Forrester d. at Winchester
Thomas Hale d. at Manassas 2 Mar. 1862
Thomas R. Hale d. at Healing Springs 15 Oct. 1861
William A. Johnson k. at Gettysburg
William M. Justus k. near Richmond
Abner G. Lain d. near Richmond
William H. Lain k. at Spotsylvania Court House, VA
William H. Lester k. at Manassas
James H. Marbrey k. at Gettysburg
Henry M. McIntyre k. at Chancellorsville
Ephraim L. McKenzie k. at Manassas
Cornelius Organ d. at Pleasant Ridge, NC 31 Jan. 1865
Moses L. Organ k. at Seven Pines
John S. Peyton k. at Seven Pines 31 May 1862
Lieut. Andrew F. Pool k. at Chickamauga
William P. Rice k. at Seven Pines
John H. Strannon k. at Shepherdstown 21 Sep. 1862
William A. Watkins k. at Manassas

 

 

     

 


Submitted by Fredric Z. Saunders
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