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Private Benjamin W. Varnell of Co. B, 1st Texas Cavalry Regiment with plumed had. 1st (McCulloch's) Mounted RiflemenState service, March 4, 1861 - mid-April 1861. Confederate service, mid-April 1861 - mid-April 1862 as the First Regiment, Texas Mounted Riflemen, also known as the First Texas Mounted Rifles (mustered out at the expiration of the enlistme
The Confederate civil war units are listed separately. Although Texas seceded in 1861, there was a pro-Union minority within the state that organized several units for the Union Army. It is estimated that some 2,000 Texans served the Union during the war. 1st Texas Cavalry Regiment. 2nd Texas Cavalry Regiment (merged with 1st Texas Cavalry ...
Collapse of Confederate authority in Texas. In the spring of 1865, Texas contained over 60,000 soldiers of the Army of the Trans-Mississippi under General Edmund Kirby Smith. As garrison troops far removed from the main theaters of the war, morale had deteriorated to the point of frequent desertion and thievery.
The 13th Texas Infantry Regiment was a unit of volunteers recruited in Texas that fought in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. The regiment organized between September 1861 and January 1862, and was originally called the 4th Texas Volunteer Regiment. It spent its entire existence patrolling the Texas Gulf Coast between ...
23rd Michigan Infantry Regiment. 24th Michigan Infantry Regiment. 25th Michigan Infantry Regiment. 26th Michigan Infantry Regiment. 27th Michigan Infantry Regiment. 28th Michigan Infantry Regiment. 29th Michigan Infantry Regiment. 30th Michigan Infantry Regiment. 102nd United States Colored Infantry Regiment.
The 4th Texas Cavalry Regiment was a unit of mounted volunteers from Texas that fought in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. The unit was organized in September 1861 with the aim of seizing New Mexico Territory. In 1862, the regiment served in the unsuccessful New Mexico Campaign. In 1863, it was in action at Galveston ...
U.S. War Department, The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1880–1901. Cunningham, O. Edward. Shiloh and the Western Campaign of 1862. Edited by Gary Joiner and Timothy Smith. New York: Savas Beatie, 2007. ISBN 978-1-932714-27-2. McDonough, James Lee.
The 24th-25th Texas Cavalry fought in Hiram B. Granbury's Texas brigade in 1864. The 24th and 25th Consolidated Texas Cavalry Regiment was a unit that originally consisted of two regiments of mounted volunteers that served in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. However, by the time the two regiments were consolidated ...