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A brief narrative of the Fourth Tennessee Cavalry Regiment, Wheeler's Corps, Army of Tennessee

Chapter 24: Transcriber’s Notes
By George B. Guild
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The author recounts the formation, organization, and service of a Confederate cavalry regiment, tracing its companies, leadership, and assignments within Wheeler’s Corps. He narrates the unit’s movements and engagements across Tennessee, Georgia, Virginia, and the Carolinas, covering major campaigns, raids behind enemy lines, and actions during the Atlanta campaign and the Union march through the South. The narrative includes casualty lists, officer rosters, addresses, postwar reflections, and appendices, presenting a firsthand regimental chronicle based largely on the author’s memory and contemporary reports.

Footnotes

1 — Resigned soon after organization of Regiment, and Lieut. George C. Moore succeeded him, serving till the surrender.
2 — This Company was not attached to the Regiment till just before the battle of Chickamauga. It had been the escort of General McGowan, who resigned, and it reported to the Fourth Tennessee, serving till the surrender. It was a very small company.
3 — I was not in the Kentucky campaign of Gen. Braxton Bragg in the summer and early fall of 1862. I have asked Colonel Smith to write it, as he was a major in command of five companies that afterwards formed a part of the Fourth Tennessee Cavalry Regiment, of which he was commissioned colonel at its organization, in October, 1862. In order that this narrative may present a full history of their services and his own during the war, he has contributed the interesting account in Chapter XVII.
4 — Granville Ridley enlisted in the Regiment when sixteen years of age, while Wheeler was on his last raid into Tennessee in 1864, and served faithfully till the surrender.

Transcriber’s Notes

The following corrections have been made in the text:
1 — ‘Stuart’ replaced with ‘Stewart’
(bugler of the Regiment, J. A. Stewart,)
2 — ‘Claiborne’ replaced with ‘Cleburne’
(attack of Generals Cleburne and Cheatham.)
3 — ‘or’ replaced with ‘of’
(51 pieces of artillery)
4 — ‘we’ replaced with ‘he’
(that he was wasting his weakening strength)
5 — ‘Gather’ replaced with ‘Gaither’
(W. P. Gaither,)
6 — (Cfd ＝ Confederate; Fed ＝ Federal; Vic ＝ Victor.)
Line added by the transcriber.
7 — ‘Murfeesboro’ replaced with ‘Murfreesboro’
(I have indicated the Murfreesboro)
8 — ‘Baily’ replaced with ‘Bailey’
(Bailey, Jonathan, 164.)
9 — ‘Bowles’ replaced with ‘Boles’
(Boles, Jeff, 243.)
10 — ‘Claiborne’ replaced with ‘Cleburne’
(Cleburne, General, 23, 116.)
11 — ‘Douglass’ replaced with ‘Douglas’
(Douglas, John, 65.)
12 — ‘Gant’ replaced with ‘Gaut’
(Gaut, William, 163.)
13 — ‘Gillihan’ replaced with ‘Gilliham’
(Gilliham, E., 158.)
14 — ‘Porter B.’ replaced with ‘B. Porter’
(Harrison, B. Porter, 165, 243.)
15 — ‘24’ replaced with ‘12’
(McMillin, Capt., 12.)
16 — ‘Murry’ replaced with ‘Murray’
(Murray, D. D., 241.)
17 — ‘Neely’ replaced with ‘Meely’
(Meely, T., 160.)
18 —

‘Nichols’ replaced with ‘Nichol’

(Nichol, Capt. J. W.)

19 — ‘273’ replaced with ‘249’
(Smith, Col. Baxter, ... 186, 239, 249.)
20 — ‘Strahl’ replaced with ‘Stahl’
(Stahl, General, 117.)
21 — ‘Captain’ replaced with ‘Lieutenant’
(White, Lieutenant, 17.)