Regiments
in Action at Cumberland Gap, Tennessee: Sep. 8, 1863, -- Sep. 10,
1863
41st Georgia Infantry Regiment
47th Georgia Infantry Regiment
52nd Georgia Infantry Regiment
55th
Georgia Infantry Regiment
58th North Carolina Infantry Regiment
62nd North Carolina Infantry Regiment
64th North Carolina Infantry Regiment
13th Virginia Infantry Regiment
21st Virginia Infantry Battalion
48th Virginia Infantry Regiment
64th
Virginia Cavalry Regiment
"The
winter [1862-63] was spent in outpost duty, picketing this and neighboring passes in the Cumberland mountains, and making
several expeditions into Kentucky. The details for guard duty in this service were excessive, and the command suffered greatly
from privation and exposure. The loss by death from disease was appalling, camp fever and an epidemic of measles being extremely
fatal, the natural death of inexperience and a deplorable lack of hospital accommodations and facilities." Captain Isaac
H.. Bailey, Company B, Fifty-eighth North Carolina Regiment, while stationed in the Cumberland Gap. (Captain Isaac Bailey
was later severely wounded at the Battle of Chickamauga.)
Related Reading:
Cumberland
Gap
Surrender
of the Cumberland Gap
Union Account
of the Capture of the Cumberland Gap
Department of East Tennessee
Regiments
in action at Cumberland Gap, Tennessee
Recommended Reading: Cumberland
Gap and East Tennessee in the American Civil War
