The Mountain Rifles was the name of 3rd Company F, organized from the Chattanooga area in '62. BUT the 35th had many names, at the beginning of the secession of Tennessee it was known as "The First Tennessee Mountain Rifle Regiment" in the Provisional Army of Tennessee (State Army), then known as the 5th Regiment of Volunteers under Colonel Benjamin J. Hill, when it was turned over to Confederate Service by Governor Isham Harris in September or October 1862. The Regiment went by the 5th Regiment, despite the CS War Dept. telling Col. Hill that our unit would be known as the 35th Regiment of Tennessee Infantry due to Colonel Travis in west Tennessee having also a 5th Tennessee, which was turned over to the CS Army before ours was. Our Regiment was told by War Dept. Order three times to report as the 35th but we were known as the 5th and reported as such in dispatches by General Patrick Cleburne all the way until Chickamauga, afterwards by direct order we reported as the 35th but were often referred to as Hill's 5th Tennessee even unto the reunions of the old veterans. Whenever our Regiment was mentioned in dispatches it was always with the highest honor. We remained in Pat Cleburne's old brigade all the way through the war...the only Tennessee unit to do so, quite an honor.