There is a page on the Dyer Co. site that has some history of part of the 6th Cav. Might want to take a look: http://www.ecsis.net/dyer/history/homemade.html Here is also a short article about the unit: Excerpt from "EARLY HISTORY OF McNAIRY,COUNTY" The McNairy Co. Independent (newspaper). OCTOBER 26, 1923. "Since the county had taken such a positive stand on the then great issuses, many soldiers for both armies were soon in the service, Gen. Andrew Johnson commissioned Fielding Hurst to raise a regiment for the Federal army, and October 1862, companies A - B - C - D, and G. were raised, and these became the Sixth Union Tennessee Cavalary, known by many in the county as the " Sixth Tennessee "." "This regiment was organized at Bethel Springs, and was mustered into the service in November, 1862. The officers of the " Sixth Tennessee" were Fielding Hurst, Colonel W. K. M. Breckinridge, Lieutenant Colonels, E. S. Tidwell and R. M. Thompson, Majors, Thos. Williams, Surgeon, Joe E. Morvin, assisant surgeon, W. J. Smith quartermaster, F. M. Clayton, Commissary, J. J. Smith, chaplin, S. L. Warren, adjunat, B. S. Walker, sergeant major, J. F. Tidwell, hospital steward, J. R. Ray, Regimental quartermaster, J. A. Locked, regimental commisswary sergeant. At the close of the war, W. J. Smith was colonel, and S. L. Warren was a Major." "The officers of Company A were A. M. Thompson, B. J. Riggs, and Samuel Lewis, Captain. The other officers were J.N. Smith, C. N. Deford, Thos. Craught and Wm. N. and the other officers were Samuel D. Hanna, Wm. W. Kirby, and John Huddleston. Nathan M. D. Kemp was Captain of Company C., and W. T. Smith and James M. Sanders were the officers, L.Hurst and J. L. W. Bostman were captain of Company D.,and Zach Norcott and John P. Gibbs, were the officers. J. L. W.Boatman was an officer in Company G. and this company was composed largely of men from Decatur county." "We would like to publish the roster of the men composing all the companies that went from McNairy County to the war of the sixties. No county gave to the armies of the north and south braver soldiers than those who went from this county. The ranks have thinned, and while they wrote a record of imperishable glory, many of the names have been forgotten by this younger and newer generation. The heroic deeds of these men will never be forgotten, and they will never die." Ed Waller