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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 ...
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 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.
2nd Lieutenant USA, Major CSA; civil and military engineer; served as an engineer on the staff of S.R. Anderson, resigned in 1861 William T. Magruder: 1850 Captain USA, Captain CSA; American Indian Wars; served in the Union Army until October 1862, served as a cavalry officer, killed at the Battle of Gettysburg: James Persons Flewellen
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].
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 ...
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.
James Dearing (April 25, 1840 – April 22, 1865) was a Confederate States Army officer during the American Civil War who served in the artillery and cavalry. Dearing entered West Point in 1858 and resigned on April 22, 1861, when Virginia seceded from the Union.