1st Texas Cavalry Regiment (Union)

1st Texas Cavalry Regiment
Active	November 6, 1862 – November 4, 1865
Country	United States of America
Allegiance	Texas
Branch	Union Army
Type	Regiment
Role	Cavalry
Size	8 companies (initially) 12 companies
Part of	Department of the Gulf
Organized at New Orleans	New Orleans, Louisiana
Engagements	Second Bayou Teche Campaign Battle of Irish Bend Battle of Fort Bisland Army of the Gulf South Texas Exoedition Battle of Brownsville Battle of Laredo
Commanders
Notable commanders	Col. Edmund J. Davis Col. John L. Haynes

The 1st Texas Cavalry Regiment was a cavalry regiment from Texas that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. ^[1][2] This regiment, composed of eight companies, was organized at New Orleans, Louisiana from November 6, 1862, to February 26, 1864, to serve three years.^{[note 1]} It served in the Department of the Gulf and in Texas. It was increased to twelve companies on September 10, 1864, by the consolidation of the 2nd Texas Cavalry Regiment. ^[3] Afterwards, it continued to serve until it was mustered out of service November 4, 1865, in accordance with orders from the War Department.^[2]

Affiliations, battle honors, detailed service, and casualties

Organizational affiliation

Attached to:^[4]

• Attached as an independent command, Department of the Gulf, to January 1863
• Defenses of New Orleans to May, 1863
• Cavalry, XIX Corps, Army of the Gulf, to July, 1863
• Defenses of New Orleans to October 1863
• Unattached Cavalry, XIII Corps, Army of the Gulf, to June, 1864
• Cavalry Brigade, United States Forces, Texas, to July 1864
• District of Morganza, LA, Department of the Gulf, to August 1864
• Cavalry Brigade, XIX Corps, Army of the Gulf, to November 1864
• 2nd Separate Cavalry Brigade, XIX Corps, Army of the Gulf, to December 1864
• Separate Cavalry Brigade, Reserve Corps, Department of the Gulf, to February 1865
• Cavalry Brigade, District of Baton Rouge, to July 1865
• Department of Texas to November. 1865

List of battles

The official list of battles in which the regiment bore a part:^[4]

• Second Bayou Teche Campaign
• Army of the Gulf South Texas Expedition
  • Battle of Brownsville
  • Battle of Laredo

Detailed service

Detailed service is as follows:^[5]

1862

• Duty in the Defences of New Orleans, La., till September, 1863

1863

• Sabine Pass Expedition September 4-11
• Western Louisiana ("Teche") Campaign October 3-17
• Nelson's Bridge, near New Iberia, October 4
• Vermillion Bayou October 9-10
• Carrion Crow Bayou October 14-15
• Ordered to New Orleans, La., October 17
• Expedition to the Rio Grande, Texas, October 23-December 2^{[note 2]}
• Occupation of Brazos Santiago November 2, and of Brownsville November 6
• Duty at Brownsville and on line of the Rio Grande till July, 1864

1864

• Rancho las Rinas June 26, 1864 (Cos. "A" and "C")
• Ordered to New Orleans July, thence to Morganza, LA August 6
• Duty Morganza till November. (A Detachment remained in Texas at Brownsville till January, 1865 and participated in skirmish at Palmetto Ranch September 6, 1864)
• Operations about Morganza September 16-25, 1864
• Williamsport September 16
• Atchafalaya River September 17
• Bayou Alabama and Morgan's Ferry September 20
• Ordered to Baton Rouge November 19
• Davidson's Expedition against Mobile & Ohio Railroad November 27-December 13
• Ordered to Lakeport December 17
• United States Forces at mouth of White River and at Baton Rouge, till May, 1865

1865

• Expedition to Clinton and the Comite River March 30-April 2, 1865
• Ordered to Vidalia, District of Natchez, MS, May 23, 1865
• Duty Natchez till June 29
• Ordered to Military District of the Southwest and duty in Texas till November
• Mustered out November 4, 1864.

Commanders

• Col. Edmund J. Davis (promoted to Brigadier General)
• Col. John L. Haynes

See also

• List of Texas Civil War Union units
• Nueces Massacre, one of the events leading to enlistment in the Regiment

References

Footnotes

1. The core of the regiment were survivors of the Nueces Massacre and other refugees from the German immigrant and Tejano population of the Texas Hill Country. For more information see the Nueces massacre.
2. On this expedition, they fought the 3rd Texas Cavalry which was commanded by Col. Duff who had commanded the unit that comitted the Nueces Massacre.

Citations

1. CWA, 1st Regiment Cavalry (2016).
2. NPS 1st Regiment, Texas Cavalry (2007).
3. United States War Department (1865), p. 1161.
4. Dyer (1908), p. 1086.
5. Dyer (1908), p. 1248.

Sources

• Dyer, Frederick Henry (1908). A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion (PDF). Des Moines, IA: Dyer Pub. Co. p. 1086. ASIN B01BUFJ76Q. hdl:2027/mdp.39015026937642. LCCN 09005239. OCLC 8697590. Retrieved October 20, 2024. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
• United States War Department (1865). West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky (pdf). Official Army Register of the Volunteer Force of the United States Army for the Years 1861, '62, '63, '64, '65 (Part IV ed.). Washington, DC: Office of the Adjutant General of the U.S. Army. p. 1161. hdl:2027/mdp.39015047632677. LCCN 22010990. OCLC 1297900076. Retrieved October 23, 2024. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
• "1st Regiment Cavalry". The Civil War Archive. 2016. Retrieved December 17, 2020.
• "Battle Unit Details, 1st Regiment, Texas Cavalry". nps.gov. U.S. National Park Service. January 19, 2007. Retrieved May 13, 2024. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.