Publisher's Synopsis
The Forty-second Tennessee Regiment was raised under the first call in Cheatham, Montgomery and other counties, and five companies in Alabama, and was organized about the 1st of October, 1861, with W A Quarles, colonel. It occupied Camps Cheatham and Sevier, and in February reached Fort Donelson just in time for the battle, in which it distinguished itself and lost severely. It was captured, and in September, 1862, was exchanged at Vicksburg, and soon reorganized at Clinton, Miss. Quarles was re-elected colonel. Here five companies from West Tennessee took the place of the five Alabama companies. In March, 1863, I. N. Hulme became colonel, vice Quarles promoted. It participated in various movements in Mississippi before the surrender of Vicksburg and during the seige. It then moved on sundry expeditions, and in 1864 joined the campaign through Georgia, and was engaged at New Hope Church, Pine Mountain, Kennesaw, Smyrna Depot, Peach Tree Creek, Atlanta and Lick Skillet road, losing in the aggregate heavily. In Hood's bloody campaign the regiment at Franklin, in those awful assaults, left about half its numbers killed and wounded upon the field. This was its most desperate battle, and here it exhibited superb courage. It participated in the stubborn contest at Nashville, and moved south with the army, and finally surrendered in North Carolina in April, 1865. Company A - Men from Hickman County. Company B - Men from Hickman County. Company C - Men from Cheatham County. Company D - Men from Humphreys County. Company E - An Alabama company. Company F - An Alabama company. Company G - "The Perry Blues." Men from Perry and Cheatham County. Company H - An Alabama company. Company I - An Alabama company. Company K - An Alabama company.
