8th Regiment, Tennessee Cavalry (Baxter Smith's), usually called 4th Regiment, was organized in November, 1862, but annulled. Reorganized in January, 1863, by consolidating Davis' Tennessee Cavalry Battalion and four companies from Murray's Cavalry Regiment, its ten companies contained men recruited in the counties of Marshall, Sullivan, Smith, Wilson, Cannon, Rutherford, Hamilton, Fentress, Davidson, DeKalb, and Sumner. Another company was added in August with men from Knox and Blount counties. The regiment served in Wharton's, Biffle's, Dibrell's, and T Harrison's Brigade. It lost about 100 men skirmishing in Tennessee, then was active in the Battle of Chickamauga. Later the unit moved with Wheeler to Middle Tennessee, was with Longstreet in East Tennessee, then returned to Georgia where it took part in the Atlanta Campaign. The unit continued the fight in East Tennessee and Virginia, and saw action in the campaign of the Carolinas. It surrendered with the Army of Tennessee.
- Officers: Colonel Baxter Smith, Lieutenant Colonel Paul F Anderson, and Major Willis S Bledsoe.
- Battles: Aiken - February 11, 1865
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*National Park Service Soldiers and Sailors Database.
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