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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.
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]
On October 2, 1862, Sherod Hunter was promoted major and joined Second Cavalry Regiment, Arizona Brigade under Colonel George Wythe Baylor. First Lieutenant Robert L. Swope, was promoted to captain and assumed command of the Company A. On December 2, 1862, General Sibley was ordered to New Iberia, Louisiana, to take over command of his Brigade.
Although Texas seceded in 1861, there was a pro-Union minority within the state that organized several units for the Union Army. It is estimated that some 2,000 Texans served the Union during the war. 1st Texas Cavalry Regiment; 2nd Texas Cavalry Regiment (merged with 1st Texas Cavalry Regiment in 1864) [1] 2nd Texas Cavalry Regiment (1865)