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The Texas Brigade (also known as Hood's Brigade) was an infantry formation of the Confederate Army that distinguished itself in the American Civil War. Along with the Stonewall Brigade , they were considered the Army of Northern Virginia's shock troops .
The 29th Texas Cavalry Regiment was a unit of mounted volunteers from Texas that fought in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. Newspaper publisher Charles DeMorse formed the regiment at Clarksville, Texas , in July 1862 and became its colonel .
The Confederates, including elements of the Texas brigade, made a final effort to seize Bald Hill late in the day, but failed to take it. [31] On August 31, 1864, at the Battle of Jonesborough, the Texas brigade under Granbury was ordered to attack an entrenched Federal position. Midway through their charge, the soldiers came under flanking ...
Hood dismounted and marched to the assault with the 4th Texas. The Texas Brigade broke the Union first line and its flight carried away the second line also. The Texas Brigade was one of the few units that claimed to have been the first to crack the Union line that day. Law's and Hood's brigades lost 1,018 casualties during the successful ...
The regiment continued to hold its position along the Dumfries Line for the rest of 1861. On October 22, 1861, the Texas Brigade was created when the 4th Texas Infantry Regiment under John Bell Hood and 5th Texas Infantry Regiment under James J. Archer arrived in
The Texas Brigade lost 75 killed, 550 wounded, and 13 missing at Second Bull Run. [11] The 5th Texas suffered 225 casualties in the battle, more than any other Confederate regiment. [12] The Texas Brigade fought near Fox's Gap during the Battle of South Mountain on 14 September. [13]
For much of the war, the regiment fought in Mathew Ector's Texas brigade in the Army of Tennessee. In the Battle of Stones River on 31 December 1862 – 2 January 1863, the brigade was commanded by Mathew Ector. The brigade no longer included the 31st Arkansas. [9] Douglas's Texas Battery was attached to the brigade. [10]
George H. Sweet briefly served as a private in the Texas Brigade in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War. A newspaperman from San Antonio, Sweet obtained an officer's commission and authority to raise his own regiment before returning to Texas. Starting in January 1862, he had little trouble raising ten companies of soldiers.