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The 8th-16th Tennessee is based in Southern Middle Tennessee. We are proud members of the Cotton States Battalion,
1st Confederate Legion, 1st Confederate Brigade, 1st Confederate Division, and the North-South Alliance. We are spread
from Putnam Co. in North-East Middle Tennessee to Giles Co. in South-West Middle Tennessee. We even have
a members in North Carolina. We mainly do a Confederate impression, but sometimes we put on the blue and go Federal.
The 8th - 16th Tennessee Infantry Regiments were among the hardest fighting units ever
to bear arms for the Confederacy.
Their men fell in battles with the chilling names of Perryville, Murfreesboro, Chickamauga, the Atlanta Campaign,
Franklin, and Nashville.
These men were volunteers . . . farmers, merchants, schoolboys, blacksmiths, clerks, and bankers...but they
stood toe to toe with the best the Union could muster-some of them elite U.S. Regular units-and drove them from the field.
The guns are silent now, and the blood these men shed has long since seeped into the soil they trod.
They are gone now, but they are not forgotten.
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