List of Texas Civil War Confederate units
This is a list of Texas American Civil War Confederate UnitsTexas Union Army units are listed separately.
Infantry
Company A (Marion Guards)
Company B (Livingston Guards)
Company C (Palmer Guards)
Company D (Star Rifles)
Company E (Corsicana Invincibles; Marshall Guards)
Company F (Woodsville Rifles)
Company G (Anderson Co. Guards; Reagan Guards)
Company H (Texas Guards)
Company I (Crockett Southerns)
Company K (Daniel Boone Rifles; Texas Invincibles)
Company L (Lone Star Rifles)
Company M (Sumter Light Infantry) 1st Infantry, Consolidated (6th, 7th & 10th Infantry, 15th, 17th, 18th, 24th & 25th Cavalry)
2nd Texas Infantry Regiment (Moore's 1st Infantry; Galveston Regiment; Van Dorn Regiment)Company A (San Jacinto Guards)
Company B (Confederate Guards)
Company C (Bayland Guards)
Company D (Confederate Grays)
Company E
Company F (Mounted Riflemen)
Company G (Burleson Guards)
Company H (Lexington Grays)
Company I (Gonzales Invincibles; Wilson Rifles) Company A (Gillespie Rifles)
Company B
Company C (Lone Star Defenders) Company A (Waco Guards)
Company B (Johnson Guards)
Company C
Company E (Cherokee Rifles)
Company A (Van Dorn Guards)
Company B (Ruess Battery) Company A (German Citizen Guards)
Company B (Galveston Guards; German Citizen Guards)
Company C (German Citizen Guards)
Company D (Cypress Rifles) 9th Texas Infantry Regiment (Nichols's 5th Infantry) (6 months)
10th Texas Infantry Regiment (Nelson's Regiment; 1st Infantry, Consolidated)Company A (Grimes Boys)
Company B
Company C (Alvarado Rifles)
Company D (Wilson's Guards)
Company E
Company F
Company G (Labadie Rifles)
Company H (Coryell Yankee Hunters)
Company I
Company K Company A (Engledow's Texas Rebels)
Company D (Titus Hunters) Company A (Lavaca County)
Company B (Nacogdoches County)
Company C (Robertson County)
Company D (Grimes County)
Company E (Tarrent County)
Company F (Milam County)
Company G (Grime County)
Company I (Freestone County)
Company K (Hill County) Company A (Austin Grays)
Company B (Perkins' 1st Company; Austin Grays)
Company D (Moseley's Battery)
Company E
Company G (Brazoria Rangers)
Company H (Field Battery) Company E (Navarro Countians)
Company G (Fouty's Company) Company A (Sabine Pass Guard)
Company B
Company C
Company D
Company E
Company F 1st Infantry Battalion (15th Infantry)
1st Infantry Battalion (Burnet's Sharp Shooters)
4th Infantry Battalion (Oswald's German Battalion) (6 months)
5th Infantry Battalion (22nd Infantry)
6th Infantry Battalion (11th Infantry & Cavalry Battalion)
8th Infantry Battalion (Hobby's Battalion; 8th Infantry)
21st Infantry Battalion (Griffin's Battalion; 21st Infantry)
Cavalry
Brigades
Organized OCTOBER 23, 1862 in Mississippi with 3rd, 6th, 9th, and 27th Texas Cavalry Regiments. Temporary commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Griffith while Colonel Whitfield and Lieutenant Colonel Ross were on convalescence leave.
Regiments
Private Benjamin W. Varnell of Co. B, 1st Texas Cavalry Regiment with plumed had State 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 enlistment period). Some of the men returned to frontier service, but most enlisted in the Eighth Texas Cavalry Battalion, which later became part of the First Texas Cavalry Regiment (Buchel's).[ 1] [ 2]
Company H (Rusk Co. Volunteers) Company B (German Company; Gidding's Battalion; Carrington's Company)
Company E (Texas Rangers)
Company F (Mounted Riflemen; W.P. Lane Rangers)
Company K
Coopwood's Spy Company (attached) Company A Harrison County (The Texas Hunters)
Company B Rusk County
Company C Cherokee County (Lone Star Defenders)
Company D Hunt County
Company E Shelby County
Company F Kaufman County
Company G Marion County (Dead Shot Rangers)
Company H Upshur County
Company I Cass County
Company K (Flora Legion) Company A
Company B (Davis Guards; Dockwallopers)
Company C (Victoria Volunteers; Victoria Invincibles)
Company D (San Andres Light Horse Company)
Company E (Milam Co. Guards) Company I (Killough's Volunteer Company, Fayette County) Company A Kaufman County (Rockwall cavalry)
Company B Kaufman County (Rockwall Cavalry)
Company C Dallas County
Company D Greyson County (Bear Skins)
Company E Van Zandt County (Wide Awakes)
Company F Dallas County (Lancaster Guards)
Company G McLennon County
Company H Bell County (Bob Whites)
Company I Henderson County (Titus Greys)
Company K Collin County (Mounted Riflemen) 7th Texas Cavalry Regiment (7th Mounted Volunteers; 3rd Regiment, Sibley's Brigade)Private Simeon J. Crews of Co. F, 7th Texas Cavalry Regiment, with cut down saber and revolver Company A
Company B (Comal Co.; Hoffmann's Company; German Company)
Company C (Williamson Co. Grays)
Company D (Angelina Troop)
Company E (Trinity Co. Cavalry)
Company F (New Salem Invincibles)
Company I (Anderson Co. Company of Cavalry) Company B (Mounted Rangers)
Company F (Lone Star Rangers)
Company K (Tom Lubbock Guards)
Company L (Wharton Guards) Company A Tarrent County (Volunteers)
Company B Fannon County (Red River Boys)
Company C Grayson County
Company D Tarrent County
Company E San Augustine County (Cypress Rangers)
Company F Titus Xounty
Company G Hopkins County
Company H Dallas County (Sharpshooters)
Company I Titus County (Titus Grays)
Company K Hopkins County Company B (Wood Co. Rebels) Company B (Holford Cavalry)
Company E (Red River Dixie Boys) 17th Texas Cavalry Regiment (Moore's Regiment; 1st Infantry, Consolidated) Company K (Clough Rangers) 17th (Consolidated) Dismounted Cavalry
18th Texas Cavalry Regiment (Darnell's Regiment; 1st Infantry, Consolidated)
19th Texas Cavalry Regiment (Burford's Regiment)Company F
Company G
Company I Company B (Caldwell Co. Rangers)
Company G
Company H Company D (Stephens Cavalry) Company B (Caldwell Co. Rangers) Company A (Moore's Rebels)
Company B (Caldwell Co. Rangers)
Company C (Moore's Rangers)
Company E (Hebert Rangers)
Company G (Galveston Videttes)
Company H (Debray's Rangers) Company A (Texas Fencibles; Titus Invincibles)
Company B Arkansas Company, (Transferred to Stirman's Sharpshooter Regiment July 23 1862, Permanent)
Company C (J.P. Henderson Rangers)
Company D (Whitfield Rifles)
Company E (Lone Star Rangers)
Company F
Company G
Company H
Company I (Titus Rangers)
Company K
Company M
Company N Company G (Lamar Cavalry)
Company K Company A (Columbia Blues)
Company G (Brazoria Rangers)
Hargrove's Company (Hood's Guerillas) 46th Texas Cavalry Regiment The Frontier Regiment (McCord's) was transferred to Confederate service on March 1, 1864 under this designation (see below).[ 3]
Battalions
1st Cavalry Battalion (Crump's, see 32nd Texas Cavalry)
3rd Cavalry Battalion (Yager's Mounted Rifles; 1st Cavalry)
4th Cavalry Battalion (Whitfield's, see 27th Texas Cavalry)
6th Cavalry Battalion (Gould's Battalion)
7th Cavalry Battalion (26th Cavalry)
8th Cavalry Battalion (Taylor's Mounted Rifles; 1st Cavalry) Formed in mid-April 1862, from men mustered out of 1st (McCulloch's) Mounted Riflemen; later part of the 1st Cavalry regiment.[ 4] [ 2]
12th Cavalry Battalion (35th Cavalry)
13th Cavalry Battalion
14th Cavalry Battalion (33rd Cavalry)
Border's Cavalry Regiment of Cadets
Morgan's Texas Cavalry Battalion (C. L. Morgan's Battalion)
Partisan Rangers
Organized in June 1862 by Walter P. Lane ; disbanded after the surrender of the Trans-Mississippi Department on May 26, 1865.[ 5]
Began to be organized in October 1862, by B. Warren Stone, Jr. ; operational in March 1863. Disbanded after the surrender of the Trans-Mississippi Department on May 26, 1865.[ 6]
5th Cavalry (Partisan Rangers) Organized February 6, 1863, through the merger of 10th Cavalry Battalion (see below) with two independent companies and Randolph's First Battalion Texas Partisan Rangers. Disbanded on May 15, 1865.[ 7]
30th Cavalry (Gurley's 1st Partisan Rangers) 33rd Cavalry (Benavides' Cavalry Regiment(Duff's Partisan Rangers, 14th Cavalry Battalion)
34th Cavalry (Alexander's 2nd Partisan Rangers)
9th Cavalry Battalion (Partisan Rangers, 5th Partisan Rangers)
10th Cavalry Battalion (5th Partisan Rangers) Organized October 23, 1862 by Leonidas M. Martin to act as "Police Guards" in Cooke County . Merged with other units to form the Fifth Texas Partisan Rangers (see above), February 6, 1863.[ 7]
Artillery
Light Artillery
4th (Shea's) Battalion, Artillery
1st Texas Field Battery (Edgar's Company, Light Artillery)2nd Texas Field Battery (McMahan's Company)
4th Texas Field Battery (Mechling's Company; Van Dorn Light Artillery)
5th Texas Field Battery (Creuzbauer's Company)
6th Texas Field Battery
7th Texas Field Battery (Moseley's Company, Light Artillery)
8th Texas Field Battery (Dege's Light Artillery Battalion)
9th Texas Field Battery (Daniel's Company; Lamar Artillery)
10th Texas Field Battery (Pratt's/Hynson's Company; Sewart Artillery)11th Texas Field Battery (Howell's Company, Light Artillery)Val Verde Texas Battery (12th Texas Battery, Sayers/Nettles Company)13th Texas Field Battery (Wilson's/Gonzales'/Hughes's Company, Light Artillery)
14th Texas Field Battery (Dashiell's Company)
15th Texas Field Battery (Nichols's Company)
16th Texas Field Battery (Gibson's Company)
17th Texas Field Battery (Krumbhaar's/Stafford's Company; Texas Guards Artillery)
Douglas's Texas Battery (Good's Battery; Dallas Light Artillery)
Heavy Artillery
1st Heavy Artillery (Cook's Regiment) Company C (Houston Turner Rifles)
Company F (Jeff Davis Guards; Houston's Rough & Ready Company)
Company H (Catching's Company)
State Troops
Infantry
1st State Troops
1st State Troops, Infantry (6 months)
2nd State Troops, Infantry (6 months)
3rd State Troops, Infantry (6 months)
4th Infantry, State Troops (6 months)
5th Infantry, State Troops (6 months)
1st Battalion, State Troops, Infantry
20th Battalion, State Troops
24th Battalion, Infantry, State Troops
30th State Troops (The Medina Guards)
Arnold's Company, Infantry Riflemen, Militia
Atkins's Company, State Troops (The Galveston Coast Guards)
Edgar's Company, State Troops (Alamo City Guards)
Gould's Company, State Troops (Clarksville Light Infantry)
Hampton's Company, State Troops (Victoria Blues)
Teel's Company, State Troops (6 months)
Cavalry
1st Cavalry, State Troops (6 months)
2nd Cavalry, State Troops (6 months)
3rd Cavalry, State Troops (6 months)
4th Cavalry, State Troops (6 months)
1st Battalion, Cavalry, State Troops (6 months)
2nd Battalion, Cavalry, State Troops (6 months)
3rd Battalion, Cavalry, State Troops (6 months)
Doughty's Company, Cavalry, State Troops (Refugio Spies)
Graham's Company, Mounted Coast Guards, State Troops
Terry's Mounted Company (State Troops)
Artillery
Good's Company, State Troops, Artillery (Dallas Light Artillery)
Frontier
Frontier Organization, Texas State Troops Organized March 1, 1864, as a replacement for the Frontier Regiment (McCord's) (see below), transferred to Confederate service. The Frontier Organization contained all men liable for military service living in the 59 frontier counties. They were formed into three districts of together 4,000 men (one-fourth of the men, on a rotation basis, in service at any one time). The organization was in operation several months after the end of the war.[ 8]
Misc
Waul's Legion (Infantry, Cavalry, and Artillery)Flag of Waul's Legion Granbury's Consolidated Brigade (1st Consolidated Regiment)
3rd (Kirby's) Battalion, Infantry and Cavalry (6 months)
6th and 15th (Consolidated) Volunteers, Cavalry and Infantry
11th (Spaight's) Battalion (Cavalry, Artillery, and Infantry)
13th Volunteers (Cavalry, Artillery, and Infantry)
Bean's Battalion, Reserve Corps
Brush Battalion Panna Maria Grays, Militia Greer's Rocket Battery
Benton's Company, Volunteers
Duke's Company, Volunteers (Jefferson Guards)
Killough's Company, Home Guards (Wheelock Home Guards)
McMinn's Company
McNeel's Company, Local Defense Troops (McNeel Coast Guards)
Merriman's Company, Local Defense Troops (Orange County Coast Guards)
Nolan's Mounted Company (Local Defense)
Pearson's Company, Partisan Rangers (Local Defense)
Perry's Company, Local Defense Troops (Fort Bend Scouts)
Rainey's Company, Volunteers (Anderson County Invincibles)
Simms' Company, Home Guards
Teague's Company, Volunteers (Southern Rights Guards)
Thomas' Company, Partisan Rangers (4 months)
Trevenio's Squad, Partisan Mounted Volunteers
Brazoria County Minutemen
Conscripts, Texas
Lavaca County Minutemen
Miscellaneous, Texas
Cavalry
Arizona Brigade
Border's Battalion, Cavalry
Frontier Battalion, Cavalry
Gidding's Battalion, Cavalry
Good's Battalion, Cavalry
Mann's Battalion, Cavalry
Ragsdale's Battalion, Cavalry
Saufley's Scouting Battalion, Cavalry A temporary field organization under William Saufley ; formed in January 1864, for the defense of Galveston . Disbanded in March 1864; the companies returning to duty with their regiments.[ 9]
Wells' Battalion, Cavalry
Border's Cavalry (Anderson's Regiment)
Bourland's Cavalry (Bourlands Border Regiment)
Chisum's Cavalry (Dismounted), (2d Partisan Rangers; Stone's Regiment)
Mann's Cavalry (Bradford's Regiment)
Martin's Cavalry (5th Partisan Rangers)
Frontier Regiment (McCord's) Mustered into service for three years in February 1863 as a replacement for the disbanded Frontier Regiment (Norris'). The new regiment was officially called the Mounted Regiment of Texas State Troops, later Mounted Regiment, Texas State Troops. The regiment was transferred to Confederate service on March 1, 1864 as the 46th Texas Cavalry (see above).[ 10] [ 3]
Frontier Regiment (Norris') Authorized by the Legislature on December 21, 1861 as a replacement for 1st (McCulloch's) Mounted Riflemen in frontier defense. Mustered into State service for one year in March and April 1862. Disbanded at the end of January 1863, by order of Governor Lubbock . It was replaced by a reorganized Frontier Regiment (McCord's).[ 10]
Morgan's Cavalry
Waller's Cavalry
Bone's Company, Cavalry
San Elizario Spy Company (Coopwood's Cavalry)Crump's Cavalry (Lane's Cavalry, 1st Partisan Rangers)
Durant's Company, Cavalry (Local Defense)
Lilley's Company, Cavalry (Pardoned Deserters)
McDowell's Company, Cavalry (Lockhart Volunteers)
Ragsdale's Company, Cavalry (Red River Dragoons)
Randolph's, W. H. Company, Cavalry
Sutton's Company, Cavalry (Graham Rangers)
Trevenio's, L. Company, Cavalry
Upton's Company, Cavalry (Local Defense)
Gano's Squadron, Cavalry
Steele's Command, Cavalry
Mounted Mountain Guards (Capt. R.T. Posey) (West Texas Defence Force, Frontier Brigade)
Infantry
Chambers' Battalion, Reserve Corps, Infantry
Griffin's Battalion, Infantry (Griffin's Regiment, Infantry; 21st Regiment or Battalion, Infantry)
Houston Battalion, Infantry (Detailed Men)
Cameron's, Watts Company, Infantry
Carter's Company, Infantry (Austin City Light Infantry)
Cotton's Company, Infantry (Sabine Volunteers)
Cunningham's Company, Infantry (The Mustang Grays)
Currie's Company, Infantry
Maxey's Company, Light Infantry and Riflemen (Lamar Rifles, State Service)
Rutherford's Company, Infantry (Unattached)
Townsend's Company, Infantry (Robertson Five Shooters)
Whaley's Company, Infantry
Yarbrough's Company, Infantry (Smith County Light Infantry)
Timmons' Infantry
Artillery
Dege's Battalion, Light Artillery
Douglas's Company, Artillery
Hughes's Company, Light Artillery
Jones's Company, Light Artillery
(Lt.) van Buren's Company, Light Artillery
See also
References
Citations
^ Estes, Claud (1912). List of field officers, regiments and battalions in the Confederate States Army 1861-1865. Macon, Georgia, part 2, p. 60.
^ a b Smith, David Paul. "First Regiment Texas Mounted Riflemen." Handbook of Texas Online. Retrieved March 06, 2020.^ a b Ivey, Darren L. (2010). The Texas Rangers. McFarland & Co. Inc., p. 118.
^ Estes 1912 op.cit. , p. 62.
^ Matthews, James. "First Texas Partisan Rangers." Handbook of Texas Online. Retrieved March 08, 2020.^ Mathews, James. "Second Texas Partisan Rangers." Handbook of Texas Online. Retrieved March 08, 2020.^ a b Grear, Charles D. "Fifth Texas Partisan Rangers." Handbook of Texas Online. Retrieved March 08, 2020.^ Smith, David Paul. "Frontier Organization." Handbook of Texas Online. Retrieved March 06, 2020.^ Mathews, Jamers. "Saufley's Scouting Battalion." Handbook of Texas Online. Retrieved March 08, 2020.^ a b Dunnam, Robert. "Frontier Regiment." Handbook of Texas Online. Retrieved March 06, 2020.
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