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| | TNGenWeb Project Tennesseans in the Civil War, 5th (McKENZIE'S) TENNESSEE CAVALRY REGIMENT. |
 | | Organized December 16, 1862 by the addition of two companies to the 13th (McKenzie's) Tennessee Cavalry Battalion, which was originally 1st (Rogers') East Tennessee Cavalry Regiment, paroled as part of General Joseph E. Johnston's Army at Greensboro, North Carolina May 1865. |
 | | In October and December, 1862, two independent companies of cavalry were ordered by General Bragg to report to the 13th (McKenzie's) Tennessee Cavalry Battalion, and on December 16, 1862, by order of the Secretary of War, the battalion was raised to a regiment, and officially designated as the 5th (McKenzie's) Tennessee Cavalry Regiment. |
 | | All of the brigade except McKenzie's Regiment was reported as serving at the time with Lieutenant General James Longstreet in East Tennessee, as part of Brigadier General Frank C. Armstrong's Division. |
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