2nd / 22nd Tennessee Cavalry ( Barteau ' s ) The 2nd Tennessee Cavalry Regiment , also known as the 22nd Tennessee Cavalry , was a cavalry unit of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War . It was organized on June 12 , 1862 as the 2nd Tennessee Cavalry Regiment . The unit was originally commanded by Lieutenant - Colonel Clark Russell Barteau , who was promoted from the rank of private on the day that he was placed in command of the new regiment . He was promoted to colonel a year later . At approximately the same time that Barteau ' s regiment became part of the Confederate forces , another 2nd Tennessee Cavalry Regiment was organized within the United States Army . It was also known as the 2nd East Tennessee Cavalry Regiment . The Union regiment was composed of men from the eastern portion of Tennessee . The exact date it was organized is unknown , because its muster rolls were destroyed at Nolensville on December 30 , 1862 . Organization in 1862 . The unit was first organized in June 1862 . It was reorganized in June 1863 and reorganized again on May 10 , 1864 . The unit was consolidated with the 21st Cavalry , which was commanded by Col . Andrew N . Wilson , in February 1865 and was paroled May 1865 as the 21st and 22nd Consolidated Regiment . Colonel Clark Russell Barteau , on a muster roll which was not dated but evidently was from 1864 , gave the following account of the confusion surrounding the organization of this regiment , which is typical of that of many other cavalry organizations : " I have stated that the regiment was organized June 6 , 1863 , but it is almost impossible to determine what is the proper date . It was organized and designated as the 2nd Tennessee Cavalry Regiment by Brigadier General William Beall , June 13 , 1862 , with seven companies present , and three ( not known ) which he had ordered to report to it . He was immediately relieved of the cavalry command , the three companies did not report , and the regiment remained with seven companies until June 6 , 1863 , when three companies were added to it by Brigadier General Ruggles . I dated the organization of the regiment from this period , for the three companies ( Captain Gurthay ' s Alabama Company , Captain Carpenter ' s Mississippi Company , and Captain Morphis ' s Tennessee Company , which were added by General Ruggles ) did not report until the Alabama Company was again transferred by Brigadier General Ferguson to Colonel Boyle ' s Alabama Regiment , and the other two companies , which were operating near the Tennessee - Mississippi line , were allowed to go into other commands ( during the time I was not in command of the regiment from July 12 , 1863 until December 16 ) . The regiment is not officially known at Richmond ; no appointments have been made to it from the War Department . The original order of the organization was not forwarded by General Beall . He was captured at Port Hudson , and the original muster rolls , as well as the original order has been lost . No record of the organization of June 13 , 1862 exists . At that time no organization less than a regiment could be received at Richmond . Captain N . Oswell dropped from ( report torn ) by order Brigadier General Ferguson and not yet returned from West To this may be added the information that the original seven companies were a consolidation of 1st ( McNairy ' s ) Battalion and 7th ( Bennett ' s ) Battalion ( q . v . ) In May , 1864 , Brigadier General A . Buford assigned three more companies to complete the regiment , and finally on February 15 , 1865 , the War Department directed : " The organization of Barteau ' s Tennessee Cavalry Regiment made by the addition of the companies commanded by Captain O . B . Fans , S . H . Reeves and B . Edwards by order of Brigadier General A . Buford is hereby confirmed to date from the 10th day of May , 1864 . It will be known as the 22nd Tennessee Cavalry Regiment . " Field Officers . The field officers were Colonel Clark R . Barteau , Lieutenant Colonel George H . Morton , and Majors William Parrish and O . B . Farris Captains . The captains were : These were the original seven companies . Captains . A . J . Guttery , 1st Co . " H " . An Alabama company assigned June 6 , 1863 , and assigned to 56th Alabama Cavalry as Co . " L " . No muster rolls of this regiment were found for Carpenter ' s and Morphis ' s companies . Morphis ' s Company served as 2nd Co . " I " , 15th ( Stewart ' s ) Tennessee Cavalry ( 1st organization ) , and later in the 3rd ( Forrest ' s Old ) Regiment . Captains . B . Edwards , 2nd Co . " H " . Men from Gibson , Obion and Weakley Counties . Samuel H . Reeves , Co . " I " . Organized December 1 , 1863 at Newbern , Dyer County of men from Gibson and Obion County . Oliver B . Farris , Co . " K " . Organized December 1 , 1863 at Newbern , Dyer County of men from Obion County . Barteau served as lieutenant colonel until June , 1863 , when he was appointed colonel . Parrish resigned in April , 1864 , and Captain B . Farris succeeded him as major . Regiment ' s role in the Civil War . The regiment was stationed in North Mississippi for most of the war . A report from Company A , dated October 30 , 1862 at Guntown , Mississippi , said : " It has from constant service been so reduced until at the present it is totally unfit for duty . It has changed commanders so often it is almost totally devoid of discipline . " Other company reports told of constant outpost duty , scouting and picketing , and also of being with Brigadier General Frank Armstrong on his raid into West Tennessee beginning August 22 , 1862 , with engagements at Medon Station , September 1 , Britton ' s Lane and Denmark , September 21 , 1862 . After this expedition , the regiment was with Brigadier General Sterling Price in the campaign around Iuka and Corinth , Mississippi in October 1862 . On January 31 , 1863 , the regiment was ported in Brigadier General Daniel Ruggles ' 1st Mississippi District ; and on March 6 , General Ruggles , in reporting on the condition of his forces , said : " Lieutenant Colonel Barteau ' s troops are miserably armed , deficient in numbers , with not even ammunition sufficient for a skirmish . " On March 20 , he reported Barteau ' s Regiment had 235 to 315 men fit for duty . On April 21 , at Palo Alto , Mississippi , the regiment was part of a force under General Samuel J . Gholson which met and defeated the 2nd Iowa Cavalry , and pursued it to near Birmingham . On May 5 , at King ' s Creek , near Tupelo , still with General Gholson , the regiment was mentioned in Federal reports as being engaged in a skirmish at that point . On May 8 , Bishop Paine , in a letter to President Jefferson Davis , reporting on conditions in North Mississippi , listed " Barteau ' s regiment , 540 , 40 with horses , principally armed with shotguns . " On May 17 , a detachment under Captain Puryear was involved in a skirmish near Albany , Mississippi , and Lieutenant Anderson H . French was commended by General Ruggles for conspicuous gallantry . On August 27 , 1863 , the regiment was reported in Brigadier General Samuel W . Ferguson ' s Brigade at Okolona , Mississippi , along with the 2nd Alabama , 56th Alabama and 12th Mississippi Regiments . Barteau ' s regiment reported an aggregate of 548 on roll . It moved with General Ferguson to Courtland , Alabama in October , 1863 , and en route , was engaged at Fulton , Mississippi on October 25 . In reporting on this engagement , General Ferguson said : " Lieutenant Colonel Morton is due more than a passing tribute . He led his gallant band with a cool skill and determination , admirable in the extreme . " The regiment remained in Ferguson ' s Brigade , Chalmers ' Division , until January 26 , 1864 , when it was ordered to report to Major General Nathan Bedford Forrest , who had assumed command of the cavalry forces in North Mississippi . In Forrest ' s first move to reorganize his command on January 25 , 1864 , he placed Barteau ' s Regiment in Colonel ( later Brigadier General ) Tyree H . Bell ' s Brigade , along with Russell ' s , Greer ' s , Newsom ' s , and Wilson ' s Regiments . All of these , except Barteau ' s , were irregular organizations raised during the fall of 1863 in West Tennessee . All of them , again with the exception of Barteau ' s , were shortly after consolidated and reorganized by General Forrest . On March 7 , Bell ' s Brigade , of Brigadier General A . Buford ' s Division , was organized with Barteau ' s Regiment , 2Oth ( Russell ' s ) and 21st ( Wilson ' s ) Regiments . These regiments , with later additions , remained in Bell ' s Brigade until the end . The regiment was with General Forrest in his running battle with the force under Major General William Sooy Smith , which ended in the latter ' s total defeat in the Battle of Tishomingo Creek , or Brice ' s Crossroads , February 20 – 21 - 22 , 1864 . Reporting on the fighting on the 22nd , Forrest wrote : " About 300 men of the 2nd Tennessee Cavalry , under Colonel Barteau , and the 7th Tennessee Cavalry , Colonel Duckworth , received repeated charges from seven regiments of the enemy in the open field , and drove them back time after time , capturing three stands of colors and one piece of artillery . " The regiment took part in the capture of Fort Pillow on April 12 , 1864 , where Bell ' s brigade was placed temporarily under the command of Brigadier General James Ronald Chalmers . Its next major engagement was the Battle of Harrisburg , July 13 – 15 , 1864 . Here the brigade had been increased by the addition of the 18th ( Newsom ' s ) Tennessee Cavalry Regiment . Barteau ' s Regiment suffered 66 casualties , including Colonel Barteau , who was wounded and furloughed . It was with General Forrest on his raid into Middle Tennessee , beginning with the capture of Athens , Alabama on September 24 , and ending with the recrossing of the Tennessee River October 8 , 1864 . As part of Buford ' s Division , it took part in General John Bell Hood ' s invasion of Tennessee in November 1864 , and withdrew into Mississippi again , after this campaign ended in disaster at Nashville . On February 13 , 1865 , General Forrest ordered all the Tennessee forces in his command to report to Brigadier General William Hicks Jackson , for consolidation into six regiments . As a result of this order the regiment was consolidated with the 21st ( Wilson ' s ) Regiment to form the 21st and 22nd Consolidated Tennessee Cavalry Regiment . On May 3 , 1865 , still in Bell ' s Brigade , the consolidated regiment reported 31 officers , 317 men present for duty , 260 effectives , 423 aggregate present , 641 aggregate present and absent . The consolidated regiment was paroled at Gainesville , Alabama in May , 1865 .