2nd Regiment Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry
The 2nd Tennessee Volunteer Cavalry Regiment was a cavalry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It was also known as 2nd East Tennessee Cavalry.Service
The 2nd Tennessee Cavalry was organized July through November 1862 in eastern Tennessee and mustered in for a three year enlistment under the command of Colonel Daniel M. Ray. Subordinate officers included Lieutenant Colonel William R. Cook, and majors George W. Hutsell, Charles Inman, William R. Macbeth, and William F. Prosser. The unit was composed primarily of Southern loyalists from the Tennessee counties of Knox, Sevier and Blount. Notably, among the enlisted were two women pretending to be men: Frances Elizabeth Quinn and Sarah Bradbury. The regiment's original muster rolls were destroyed at Nolensville, Tennessee on December 30, 1862. The regiment re-mustered at Murfreesboro, Tennessee on January 26, 1863.Detailed service
Casualties
The regiment lost a total of 224 men during service; 2 officers and 14 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded, 208 enlisted men died of disease.Commanders
- Colonel Daniel M. Ray
- Lieutenant Colonel William R. Cook - commanded at the battles of Chickamauga and Nashville
