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The 3rd Texas Cavalry Regiment or South Kansas-Texas Mounted Volunteers was a unit of mounted volunteers that fought in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. The regiment fought at Wilson's Creek and Chustenahlah in 1861, Pea Ridge , Corinth siege , Iuka , Second Corinth , and the Holly Springs Raid in 1862, Thompson's ...
The 3rd Texas Cavalry Regiment (Arizona Brigade) was a unit of mounted volunteers from Texas that fought in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. In May 1862, John R. Baylor received authority to organize five battalions of Partisan Rangers of six companies each.
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
Wharton in Confederate uniform. Shortly before the end of the war in 1865, a fellow Confederate cavalry officer, Col. George Wythe Baylor (1832–1916) (brother of Confederate Arizona Governor Colonel John R. Baylor), killed Wharton in Houston, Texas, over a simmering dispute on military matters.
Why Texans Fought in the Civil War (2010) excerpt and text search; Hale, Douglas. The Third Texas Cavalry in the Civil War (University of Oklahoma Press, 2000) Howell, Kenneth Wayne (2009). The Seventh Star of the Confederacy: Texas During the Civil War. University of North Texas Press. ISBN 9781574412598. Horton, Louise (2010) [1974].
The notes mainly show pre-war military education or experience, pre-war political office, ranks and appointments prior to general officer appointments, some major assignments or events, information on wounds, killed in action or otherwise during the war, a few close relationships, deaths soon after the war, several of the longest lived generals ...
William Overall Yager (April 3, 1833 – January 20, 1904) was, during the American Civil War, initially the major and commanding officer of Yager's Third Battalion Texas Mounted Volunteers, and then later, as colonel and commanding officer of the First Texas (Yager's) Cavalry (CSA), and, in postwar years, member of the Virginia House of Delegates and the Senate of Virginia, Superintendent of ...
Francis Crawford Armstrong (November 22, 1835 – September 8, 1909) was a United States Army cavalry officer and later a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He is also known for being the only Confederate general to fight on both sides during the Civil War. [1]