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=== Brief History === | === Brief History === | ||
"62nd Tennessee Infantry Regiment, also called 80th Tennessee Infantry Regiment: Rowan's Tennessee Infantry Regiment: 62nd Tennessee Mounted Infantry Regiment - Organized October 8, 1862; mustered into Confederate service November 11, 1862; surrendered at Vicksburg July, 1863; served remainder of war as mounted infantry in Brigadier General John C. Vaughn's Brigade in East Tennessee and Western Virginia." <ref>Tennesseans in the Civil War, [http://www.tngenweb.org/civilwar/csainf/csa62.html 62nd Tennessee Infantry Regiment], (accessed 31 Dec 2011).</ref> | |||
The book "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> | The book "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> | ||