A portion of the Tennesseans in the Civil War section for the 8th Tennessee reads:

"On August 6, the XXIII Corps was reorganized, and the regiment placed in Colonel Daniel Cameron's 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division. The brigade moved into East Tennessee with Major General A. E. Burnside, and on August 31 the regiment was at Wartburg; on September 24, at Greeneville; on September 30, at Lick Creek Bridge; on October 15, at Jonesboro, on the Blountsville Road. It did not serve with its regular brigade during November, being temporarily attached to Colonel William A. Hoskins' 2nd Brigade, Forces in East Tennessee. On December 31, 1863, it was again in Cameron's Brigade at Strawberry Plains."

It is this period between October 15 and December 31 that interest me. I have found nothing in the ORs indicating its location, or why is was not with Cameron's Brigade at the time. Given the situation in Knoxville from mid November to early December 1863, there must have been some reason the regiment was whereever it was.