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The battalion was subsequently cut off by the Germans, and attempts by the 141st Infantry's other two battalions to extricate it failed. [2] P-47 Thunderbolt fighters from the 405th Fighter Squadron , 371st Fighter Group , airdropped supplies to the 275 trapped soldiers, but conditions on the ground quickly deteriorated as the Germans continued ...
In April 1862, the unit was reduced to five companies and renamed the 8th Texas Cavalry Battalion. [1] On 2 May 1862, William Overall Yager 's 3rd Texas Cavalry Battalion was consolidated with the 8th Cavalry Battalion to form a new 1st Texas Cavalry Regiment under Colonel Augustus Buchel , [ 2 ] a German soldier of fortune who emigrated to ...
2: 12: 0: 14 6th Texas Cavalry Regiment: Col B. Warren Stone: 3: 3: 13: 19 9th Texas Cavalry Regiment: Col William B. Sims (w) Ltc William Quayle: 1: 1: 0: 2: War of the Rebelion Series 1 Volume 8 Page 300. 11th Texas Cavalry Regiment: Col William C. Young---- 1st Arkansas Cavalry Battalion (Stirman's) Maj William H. Brooks: 11: 30: 0: 41 1st ...
The 35th (Likens') Texas Cavalry Regiment was a unit of mounted volunteers from Texas that fought in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.The regiment was formed by consolidating Likens' Texas Cavalry Battalion and Burns' Texas Cavalry Battalion [1] in October 1863.
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
[citation needed] The force was made up of soldiers from several units of the 36th Infantry Division including 1–112th AR, 2–112th AR, 3–112th AR, 3rd Mech, and C Btry 2-131 FA (MLRS). In late 2006, Company B of the 3d Battalion, 144th Infantry Regiment deployed to Iraq after pre-deployment training at Ft. Dix, NJ and were actively ...
The unit that became Company G of the 32nd Texas Cavalry fought at the Battle of Chustenahlah on 26 December 1861. [1] On 7–8 March 1862, the 1st Texas Cavalry Battalion fought at the Battle of Pea Ridge as part of James M. McIntosh's cavalry brigade. [2] On the first day, the battalion participated in a cavalry charge that drove off two ...
The Lost Battalion was the 2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery, 36th Infantry Division (Texas National Guard) of the U.S. Army. The men of the battalion, plus the survivors of the sunken cruiser USS Houston , were captured by the Japanese on the island of Java in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia ) in March 1942.