EIGHTIETH REGIMENT.
A. L. Welch, Sergeant, Co. A.

EIGHTIETH REGIMENT.

(WALKER’S REGIMENT OF THOMAS’ LEGION.)

By CAPTAIN R. A. AIKEN, Company H.

This command was organized as a battalion on 1 October,
1862, in the city of Knoxville, Tenn., under orders from
Major-General E. Kirby Smith, commander of East Tennes-
see and Western North Carolina, and was a part of Thomas’
Legion. The separate companies had been mustered into
service a few months prior to this, and had been guarding the
bridges between Bristol and Chattanooga, Tenn.

The organization was effected by the election of the fol-

lowing field officers.

W. ©. Waxxer, Lieutenant-Colonel, Cherokee County,
Ee OF

James A. McKamy, Major, Blount County, Tenn.

Tuomas D. Jounson, A. Q. M., Asheville, N. C.

Perry ©. Gaston, Adjutant, Franklin, N. C.

Dr. Bens. Mayriexp, Surgeon, Murphy, N. C.

Dr. Cras. H. Gren, Assistant Surgeon, Tennessee.

Dr. Cus. F. Warxer, Sergeant Major, Murphy, N. ©.

Wa. M. Netson, Quartermaster Sergeant, Cherokee
County, N. C.

Ep. P. McGenerr, Ordnance Sergeant, Cherokee County,

N.C.

For the greater part of its service it was known as Walk-
er’s Battalion. When it was raised to ten companies in the
spring of 1864, W. ©. Walker became Colonel, J. A. Me-
Kamy Lieutenant-Colonel, and Captain Stephen Whitaker,
of Company E, became Major.

COMPANY OFFICERS.

Company A—F rom Cherokee—C. C. Berry, Captain, 18
July, 1862; J. N. Bryson, First Lieutenant, 18 July, 1862;