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4 unusual facts about Army of the Tennessee


4th U.S. Light Artillery, Battery H

Moved to Nashville, Tenn., February 14–25, 1862; thence march to Savannah, Tenn., to reinforce Army of the Tennessee March 20-April 6.

4th U.S. Light Artillery, Battery M

Moved to Nashville, Tenn., February 14–25, 1862, thence march to Savannah, Tenn., to reinforce the Army of the Tennessee March 20-April 6.

Battle of Fort Myers

Union commanders planned to send horse soldiers into the area north of the Caloosahatchee River to confiscate livestock from area cattle ranches, thereby preventing shipment of beef to the Confederate Army of the Tennessee in Georgia.

Siege of Corinth Union order of battle

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Disharoon's plantation

Union Maj. Gen. John A. McClernand's XII Corps of the Army of the Tennessee occupied the plantation on April 29, 1863, after marching across the base of Coffee Point from Hard Times Plantation.

Faugh A Ballagh

A variant transliteration of the motto, 'Faj an Bealac!' was inscribed on the regimental colors of the (Federal) 7th Missouri Volunteer Infantry, the "Irish Seventh", which fought in the Civil War's Western Theater as part of Grant and Sherman's Army of the Tennessee.


see also

66th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment

Colonel Patrick E. Burke - mortally wounded at the Battle of Rome Cross Roads on May 16, 1864 while commanding 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, Left Wing, XVI Corps, Army of the Tennessee.