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Major General Anthony Woods, Commander, Texas State Guard. The Texas State Guard has its roots in Stephen F. Austin's colonial militia. On February 18, 1823, Emperor of Mexico, Agustín de Iturbide, authorized Austin who was the leader of the first non-Spanish efforts of Texas settlement "to organize the colonists into a body of the national militia, to preserve tranquility."
Texas State Guard. Texas Army National Guard. Unknown Unknown 0 Accomplished 2011 Bastrop County Complex Fire: Natural disaster: Texas State Guard: Unknown 0 Accomplished 2013 West Fertilizer Company explosion: Anthropogenic disaster: Texas State Guard: Unknown 0 Accomplished 2017 Hurricane Harvey: Natural disaster: Texas State Guard. Texas ...
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
During their retreat up the peninsula, the 1st Texas along with its brigade was sent to confront an amphibious landing made by Brigadier General William B. Franklin's Division at the Battle of Eltham's Landing on May 7, 1862. John Bell Hood, the new commander of the Texas Brigade, drove the Yankees back to their boats during the brigade's first ...
The Texas State Guard, only subject to Title 32 of the United States Code which legally empowers individual states to maintain military forces. Since 1903, the Texas National Guard designation has remained the same while the Texas State Guard has been designated as the: Texas Reserve Militia, 1905-1913 [15] Texas Home Guard, 1914-1918 (World ...
Texas Military Forces are inextricably linked and have served an integral role in the development, history, culture, and international reputation of Texas. [5] They were established with the Texian Militia in 1823 (thirteen years before the Republic of Texas and twenty-two years before the State of Texas) by Stephen Austin to defend the Old Three Hundred in the Colony of Texas.
On March 15, 2024, 50 Louisiana National Guard personnel arrived in Texas to support the state’s border security operation. Louisiana is one of multiple states to send national guard members to ...
Gen. John Bell Hood Texas Brigade, winter of 1861–62. The Texas Brigade was organized on October 22, 1861, primarily through the efforts of John Allen Wilcox, afterwards a member of congress from Texas, who remained as the brigade's political patron until his death in 1864.