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The 2nd Regiment, Texas Infantry was an infantry regiment from Texas that served with Confederate States Army in the American Civil War. The regiment was organized by the then Captain John Creed Moore who would become the regiment's 1st Colonel. Many of the men were from Houston and Galveston. [1]
William Peleg Rogers (December 17, 1819 – October 4, 1862) was a Texan lawyer and political activist and a Confederate army officer.. After service in the Mexican War, he strongly supported the cause of secession from the Union, and became colonel of the 2nd Texas Infantry Regiment, Confederate States Army, at the outset of the Civil War.
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 2nd Texas Cavalry Regiment was a volunteer cavalry unit from Texas that fought in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War. The unit was organized in May 1861 as the 2nd Texas Mounted Rifles. In early 1862, the regiment took part in the unsuccessful New Mexico Campaign before retreating to Texas.
144th Infantry Regiment (6th Texas Infantry less Company G, and 4th Texas Infantry less Machine Gun Company and Band) 133rd Machine Gun Battalion (Machine Gun Troop, 1st Texas Cavalry, Company D, 3rd Texas Infantry, and Company G, 6th Texas Infantry) 61st Field Artillery Brigade 131st Field Artillery Regiment (75 mm) (2nd Texas Field Artillery)
Higgins' regiment, the 99th Illinois, and four other Union regiments attacked a section of the Vicksburg defenses held by the 2nd Texas Infantry Regiment, which succeeded in repulsing the attack. According to one of its members, Charles I. Evans, after the assault was beaten back, a color bearer (Higgins) continued to advance towards the ...
Regiment of Texas Rifle Volunteers, May, June and July, and discharged August 1846. Colonel Albert Sidney Johnston (former Adjutant U.S. 6th Infantry and Adjutant General of Texas.) [46] Regiment of Texas Mounted Volunteers, for 6 months (7 companies), for frontier defense; July, and discharged September 1846. Colonel William C. Young [47]
Second Division BG Sterling Price BG John P. McCown. 1st Brigade BG Joseph L. Hogg (died May 16) BG William L. Cabell. McCray’s Arkansas Infantry; 10th Texas Cavalry (dismounted) 11th Texas Cavalry (dismounted) 14th Texas Cavalry (dismounted) Andrews's 32d Texas Cavalry (dismounted) Good’s Texas Battery: Cpt John Jay Good; 2nd Brigade