16th Regiment, Tennessee Cavalry (Logwood's)

Historical Notes:
The Tennessee 16th (Logwood's) Cavalry Regiment [also called 15th Regiment] was organized at Pikeville, Mississippi, in August, 1863. Its members were recruited in the counties of Fayette, Shelby, Gibson, Hardeman, Haywood, and Tipton. The unit served in the Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana, and skirmished in Mississippi until February, 1864, when it merged into the 15th (Stewart's-Logwood's) Tennessee Cavalry Regiment Officers:
Colonel Thomas H. Logwood
Lieutenant Colonel James H. Murray
Major Thomas S. Webb Assignments:
R.V. Richardson's and E.W. Rucker's Brigade
Battles:
Skirmishes in Georgia
Harrisburg
Memphis
Franklin
Nashville
Rosters:
The roster of this unit contains the names of 753 men.

Company A - Captain James H. Murray (to lieutenant colonel)
Company B - Captain James L. Garrison
Company C - Benjamin I. McSpadden
Company D - Captains J.R. Farrabee, John C. Ford - Shelby County and Fayette Counties.
Company E - Captain Thomas N. Caruthers
Company F - Captains Thomas W. Brinkley, William S. Latta - Fayette County, Hardeman County and Haywood Counties.
Company G - Captain John H. Stevens - Fayette and Shelby Counties.
Company H - Captain Thomas D. Robins - Fayette, Shelby and Hardeman Counties
Company I - Captain J.E. Sullivan - Shelby and Tipton Counties.
Company K - Thomas N. Hughes - Shelby and Fayette Counties. Bibliography for Research:
Crute, Joseph Units of the Confederate States Army Midlothian, VA: Derwent Books, 1987. Concise summary of the units service.

Sifakis, Stewart. Compendium of the Confederate Armies...Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, The Confederate Units and the Indian Units. Westminster, MD: Willow Bend Books, 1995. (2 photocopied pages). E547S53.

Southern Historical Society The Southern Historical Society Papers. Cartersville, GA: Eastern Digital Resources, 1998.

U. S. Government Printing Office. Official Records of the American Civil War Davenport, IA. Eastern Digital Resources.

Rigdon, John C. - Editor Civil War Soldiers Service Records - Tennessee. 2012. Davenport, IA Eastern Digital Resources.