1st Tennessee Infantry Regiment

1st Tennessee Infantry Regiment
Active	1861–1865
Disbanded	May 1, 1865
Country	Confederate States
Allegiance	Tennessee
Branch	Army
Type	Infantry
Size	Regiment
Part of	Maney's Brigade
Nickname(s)	"First Tennessee"
Facings	Light blue
Arms	Enfield rifled muskets Whitworth rifles
Battles	American Civil War Battle of Cheat Mountain Battle of Shiloh Battle of Perryville Battle of Stones River Battle of Chickamauga Battle of Chattanooga Battle of Kennesaw Mountain Battle of Franklin Battle of Nashville Battle of Bentonville
Commanders
Commanding officers	Colonel George E. Maney Colonel Hume R. Field

The 1st Tennessee Infantry Regiment, commonly known as the "First Tennessee", was a line infantry formation of the Confederate States Army in the Western Theater of the American Civil War successively commanded by Colonels George E. Maney and Hume R. Field.

Organized in 1861 with volunteers from western Tennessee, the regiment was assigned to Maney's Brigade, Cheatham's Division, 1st Corps, Army of Tennessee. After sustaining heavy casualties at the battles of Shiloh and Perryville, it was amalgamated with the 27th Tennessee Infantry Regiment.

The regiment was organized on May 9, 1861, and mustered into Confederate service on August 1st. George E. Maney, who commanded the Rock City Guards (which later became companies A, B and C),^[1] was elected colonel for the first 90 days.^[2] Early in the war the men of the three companies called themselves the "Orphan Boys."^[3] After that, command passed to Hume R. Field.^[4] Private Sam Davis joined the First Tennessee as a scout, but was later executed by Union forces as a spy despite wearing a Confederate uniform when captured.^[5]

• List of Tennessee Confederate Civil War units

 This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the National Archives and Records Administration.

• Cannon, Devereaux D. Jr. (Winter 1988). "Flags of the Rock City Guards". Tennessee Historical Quarterly. 47 (4): 191–197.