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 === Brief History  ===
-Organized for Confederate service August 10, 1861; reorganized May, 1862; consolidated with 12th Tennessee Infantry Regiment June 16, 1862 to form [[12th Consolidated Regiment, Tennessee Infantry|12th Consolidated Tennessee Infantry Regiment]]. <ref>http://www.tngenweb.org/civilwar/csainf/csain22.htm TNGenWeb Project Tennesseans in the Civil War, (accessed 22 Oct 2011).</ref><br>
+The Tennessee 22nd Infantry Regiment completed its organization at Camp Trenton, Tennessee, in August, 1861. Men of this unit were recruited in Memphis and Hardeman, Carroll, Gibson, and Dyer counties. It served in Cheatham's, R.M. Russell's, and B.R. Johnson's Brigade, and saw action in the conflicts at Belmont and Shiloh . On June 16, 1862, it merged with 12th Tennessee Infantry Regiment June 16, 1862 to form [[12th Consolidated Regiment, Tennessee Infantry|12th Consolidated Tennessee Infantry Regiment]]. <ref>http://www.researchonline.net/tncw/unit114.htm, The War for Southern Independence Tennessee Research Tools for the 21st Century, (accessed 22 Oct 2011).</ref><br>
 "Units of the Confederate States Army" by Joseph H. Crute, Jr. contains no history for this unit. <ref>National Park Service, [http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/ The Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System], (accessed 6 December 2010).</ref>