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=== Brief History === | === Brief History === | ||
"From the [[48th Regiment, Tennessee Infantry (Voorhies')|48th (Voorhies') Tennessee Infantry Regiment ]]- The men who escaped capture at Fort Donelson were grouped into a detachment under Captain David R. Sowell, senior captain of the 48th, and ordered to Corinth, Mississippi. Here, on April 7, 1862, they were reorganized into a small battalion of four companies which, a few days later was consolidated with six companies from the 54th Tennessee Infantry Regiment plus some from other regiments who had also escaped capture at Donelson, to form the 48th (Nixon's) Tennessee Infantry Regiment." <ref>Tennesseans in the Civil War, [http://www.tngenweb.org/civilwar/csainf/csa48v.html 48th (Voorhies') 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> | ||