Organized at Paris, Henry County, Tennessee, in the Provisional Army of Tennessee for State service on May 20, 1861; mustered into Confederate service at Camp Brown, Union City, Obion County on August 9, 1861; reorganized on May 6, 1862; consolidated with 4th Tennessee Infantry Regiment in December, 1862; merged into 3rd Consolidated Tennessee Infantry Regiment consisting of Johnston's army, the 4th, 5th, 19th, 24th, 31st, 33rd, 35th, 38th, 41st Tennessee Infantry Regiments, and a few from the 22nd (Murray's) Tennessee Infantry Battalion on April 9, 1865; paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina on May 1, 1865. The Second 5th Tennessee Infantry Regiment To Organize Organized September 11, 1861; reorganized May 1862; temporarily consolidated with 48th (Nixon's) Regiment from September, 1863 to July, 1864; merged into 3rd Consolidated Tennessee Infantry Regiment, consisting of Johnston's army, the 4th, 5th, 19th, 24th, 31st, 33rd, 35th, 38th, 41st Tennessee Infantry Regiments, and a few from the 22nd (Murray's) Tennessee Infantry Battalion on April 9, 1865; paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina on May 1, 1865.
The regiment, when first organized, was called the Tennessee Mountain Rifle Regiment. When mustered into Confederate service, it was first known as the 5th Tennessee Volunteer Regiment, but the regiment organized in West Tennessee by Colonel Travis had been numbered the 5th by the Adjutant and Inspector Generals Office; and that office in November, 1861, directed that Hill's Regiment be known as the 35th. However, during the first two years of the war it was usually reported as the 5th (Hill's) Tennessee Regiment. In late 1863 the Secretary of War issued another order, again specifying that it should be called the 35th Tennessee Infantry Regiment. The Third 5th Tennessee Infantry Regiment To Organize Organized at Barboursville, Kentucky on March 28, 1862; mustered out of service at Nashville, Tennessee from March 29th through June 30, 1865.
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