The 11th Tennessee Cavalry was organized May through October 1863 and mustered in for a three-year enlistment under the command of Colonel Isham Young.
The regiment was attached to Willcox's Division, Left Wing, XXIII Corps, Department of the Ohio, to January 1864.
Gibson and Wyerman's Mills on Indian Creek, and at Powell's Bridge February 22.
Records are incomplete, but the 11th Tennessee Cavalry was known to be greatly under strength, ill-equipped, and without discipline.
Brigadier General Theophilus T. Garrard reported on March 15, 1864, that "the 11th Tennessee Cavalry (10 companies) 252 men for duty, no horses, are without discipline, and with their present organization of but little value."