Tennessee 12th Infantry (Confederate)
5/1/61
Organized - Tennessee 12th Infantry - Tennessee
4/6/62
Leadership Change - Regiment - Lieutenant Colonel Tyree H. Bell, and Major Robert P. Caldwell
Lieutenant ColonelTyree H. Bell
MajorRobert P. Caldwell
4/6/62
Leadership Change - Brigade - Colonel Robert M. Russell
ColonelRobert M. Russell
4/6/62
Leadership Change - Division - Brigadier General Charles Clark
Brigadier GeneralCharles Clark
4/6/62
Battle - Shiloh - Hardin County, Tennessee
4/29/62
Battle - Siege of Corinth - Corinth, Mississippi
Union forces had captured the railroad junction and important transportation center at Corinth, Mississippi in the spring of 1862 after their victory at Shiloh. After the Battle of Iuka in September, Maj. Gen. Sterling Price's Confederate Army of the West marched to Ripley, Mississippi where it joined Maj. Gen. Earl Van Dorn's Army of West Tennessee. Van Dorn took command of the combined force numbering about 22,000 men. The Rebels marched southeast toward Corinth, hoping to recapture it and then sweep int…READ MORE
6/16/62
Mustered Out - Tennessee 12th Infantry - Tennessee
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