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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.
8th Texas Cavalry Regiment (Terry's Texas Rangers) Benjamin Franklin Terry: Loss March 1862 Battle of Pea Ridge: 9th Texas Cavalry Regiment: William B. Sims: Loss April–May 1862 Siege of Corinth: 9th Texas Cavalry Regiment: William B. Sims: Loss May 1862 Battle of Eltham's Landing: Texas Brigade: John Bell Hood: Inconclusive May 1862 Battle ...
The city of Corinth grew as a railroad town in the 1850s around the railroad crossing point of the Memphis and Charleston Railroad (opened 1857) and the Mobile and Ohio Railroad (opened 1861). This railroad junction, whose planning began in the mid-1850s, made Corinth a key economic junction point in the southern United States, and made it of ...
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; Wirt Adams' Cavalry Regiment - Col Wirt Adams
The brigade was composed of the 3rd Texas, 6th Texas, 9th Texas, 27th Texas Cavalry regiments, and the 2nd Missouri Light Artillery Battery. Together with Brig. Gen. Robert V. Richardson 's brigade, they battled Union forces along the Yazoo River in February and fought in the Battle of Yazoo City on March 5, 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
The next letter from Levi Coman is dated April 29, 1862. Coman, along with the 76th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, marched with their division from the camp at Pittsburg Landing toward Purdy, Tennessee.
Dudley William Jones (1840–1869) was a Texan cavalry officer in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. [1] [2] Rising to the rank of colonel, he commanded the 9th Texas Cavalry in two successful engagements: at Thompson's Station, Tennessee, on March 5, 1863; and at Lovejoy's Station, Georgia, in July 1864. [1]