Thanks again, Ron, good stuff. I've turned up a few things, too, googling Murray's name. He was evidently a judge from Gainesboro, Tennessee, before the war, and given a regiment by Governor Harris. He was elected to the Confederate Congress from the Jackson County district after he was not re-elected colonel by the regiment in May 1862. There's also a diary of a Spencer Talley of the 28th Tennessee online, and he gives a very general description of the regiment at Shiloh. It's hard to tell what they did there, or who was in charge, although they must have done some fighting, because he mentions casualties. I haven't looked at Statham's Shiloh report in the O.R. yet (if there is one). I'll check there tonight. Larry