![]() On April 19, 1862, Major Eakin, commanding Eakin’s Battalion, at Morristown, Tennessee was instructed “to arrest all Union leaders who circulate exaggerated reports of the military draft, thereby inducing ignorant men to fly their homes to go to Kentucky.” Brown succeeded him as major, and later lieutenant colonel. Major Alexander died in December, 1862 3. Mustered in at Athens, McMinn County, May 1, 1862, with some men from Polk CountyĬolonel Cooke resigned in March, 1863, and Lieutenant Colonel Eakin succeeded him as colonel. Mustered in at Morristown, then Grainger, now Hamblen County, May 1, 1862 Mustered in at Athens, McMinn County, April 14, 1862 Mustered in at Madisonville, Monroe County, March 15, 1862 Mustered in at Morristown, then Grainger now Hamblen County, February 2, 1862. Mustered in at Madisonville, Monroe County, February 12, 1862 Mustered in at Knoxville, Knox County, January 10, 1862. Mustered in at Elizabethton, Carter County, December 23, 1861 ![]() Mustered in at Madisonville, Monroe County, December 12, 1861 James Pryor Brown (to major), Charles F.Mustered in at Firestones, McMinn County, November 23, 1861 It was organized as a regiment in May, 1862, and was officially designated the 59th Tennessee Infantry June 30, 1862. The battalion was gradually increased to a regiment by the addition of other companies, and was known as the 1st East Tennessee Battalion. The nucleus of the 59th Regiment was Eakin’s Tennessee Infantry Battalion, composed of five companies and organized into a battalion on February 17, 1862. Organized May, 1862 captured Vicksburg July, 1863 served in Vaughn’s Brigade in East Tennessee and Western Virginia thereafter. ![]() Also called 1st (Eakin’s) Tennessee Battalion:Ĭooke’s Regiment: 59th Tennessee Mounted Infantry Regiment
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