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The 9th Texas Cavalry Regiment was a unit of mounted volunteers that fought in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.The regiment fought at Round Mountain and Bird Creek (Chusto-Talasah) in 1861, Pea Ridge, Siege of Corinth, Second Corinth, Hatchie's Bridge and the Holly Springs Raid in 1862, and in the Atlanta campaign, Franklin, and Murfreesboro in 1864.
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
3rd Arkansas Cavalry (dismounted) 6th Texas Cavalry (dismounted) - Col Lawrence S. Ross (w) 9th Texas Cavalry (dismounted) Stirman's Arkansas Sharpshooters - Col Erasmus J. Stirman; McNally's (Arkansas) Battery - Lt Frank A. Moore; Cavalry Brigade BG Frank C. Armstrong. 2nd Arkansas (Slemons') Cavalry - Col William F. Slemons
The following units [1] and commanders of the Confederate Army fought at the Siege of Corinth (29 Apr-30 May 1862) of the American Civil War. The Union order of battle is shown separately. Order of battle compiled from the Official Records of the American Civil War as they appeared on June 30, 1862.
The other two companies of the Battalion were disbanded and the men consolidated with those of Company A to form the Arizona Scout Company that fought until the end of the war. [citation needed] Herbert's Battalion of Arizona Cavalry. Company A, Arizona Rangers; Arizona Guards of Pinos Altos mining camp, Arizona territorial militia company
Captain and troopers of the 9th Cavalry, 1880. A Signal Corps sergeant is in the foreground. In July 1867 the 9th Cavalry was ordered to western and southwestern Texas, to maintain law and order between the Rio Grande and Concho Rivers along a 630-mile line with seven forts from Fort Clark to Fort Quitman near present-day El Paso (the forts ended up including Fort Quitman, Fort Davis, Fort ...
George Wythe Baylor was born at Fort Gibson, in the Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory, on August 24, 1832. [1] His father, an army surgeon in the 7th Infantry Regiment, [2] [3] was John Walker Baylor, eldest son of Major Walker Baylor, of Bourbon County, Kentucky, whose wife was Jane, née Bledsoe, a sister of Jesse Bledsoe, of Kentucky. [1]
Even before the October fighting at Corinth and Hatchie's Bridge, details were sent to Texas to bring the regiment's horses. The 6th Texas Cavalry was remounted and joined a cavalry brigade that included the 3rd Texas, 9th Texas, and 27th Texas Cavalry Regiments. [1] John Wilkins Whitfield assumed command of the brigade on 23 October 1862.