List of Texas Civil War Confederate units

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This is a list of Texas American Civil War Confederate Units. The Texas Union Army units are listed separately.

Confederate States Army[]

Major Formations[]

Infantry[]

  • 1st Infantry (2nd Infantry, Ragged Old First)
  • 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 Infantry (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)
  • 3rd Infantry (Luckett's 1st Infantry)
  • 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)
  • 8th Infantry (Hobby`s)
  • 9th Infantry (Young's; Maxey's 8th Infantry)
  • Company A (German Citizen Guards)
  • Company B (Galveston Guards; German Citizen Guards)
  • Company C (German Citizen Guards)
  • Company D (Cypress Rifles)
  • 9th Infantry (Nichols's 5th Infantry) (6 months)
  • 10th Infantry (Nelson's Regiment; 1st Infantry, Consolidated)
  • Company A (Grimes Boys)
  • Company C (Alvarado Rifles)
  • Company D (Wilson's Guards)
  • Company G (Labadie Rifles)
  • Company H (Coryell Yankee Hunters)
  • 11th Infantry (Roberts's Rangers)
  • Company A (Engledow's Texas Rebels)
  • Company D (Titus Hunters)
  • 12th Infantry (Young's 8th Infantry)
  • 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)
  • 13th Infantry (Bates's Infantry Battalion)
  • 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)
  • 14th Infantry (Clark's Regiment)
  • Company D
  • 15th Infantry (Speight's Regiment)
  • Company E (Navarro Countians)
  • Company G (Fouty's Company)
  • 16th Infantry (Flournoy's 7th Infantry)
  • 17th Infantry (Allen's Regiment)
  • 18th Infantry (Ochiltree's Regiment)
  • 19th Infantry (Waterhouse's Regiment)
  • 20th Infantry (Elmore's Regiment)
    Flag of the 20th Texas Infantry
  • 21st Infantry (Speight's Battalion; Swamp Angels; Spaight's Regiment)
  • Company A (Sabine Pass Guard)
  • Company B
  • Company C
  • Company D
  • Company E
  • Company F
  • 22nd Infantry (Hubbard's Battalion)
  • 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[]

Regiments[]

Private Benjamin W. Varnell of Co. B, 1st Texas Cavalry Regiment with plumed had
  • 1st (McCulloch's) Mounted Riflemen

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]

  • 1st Texas Cavalry Regiment (Buchel's; Yager's 1st Mounted Rifles)
  • Company H (Rusk Co. Volunteers)
  • 2nd Texas Cavalry Regiment (2nd Mounted Rifles; Chisum's Regiment; Partisan Rangers)
  • 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 C (Lone Star Defenders)
  • Company G (Dead Shot Rangers)
  • Company K (Flora Legion)
  • 4th Texas Cavalry Regiment (4th Mounted Volunteers; 1st Regiment, Sibley's Brigade)
  • 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
  • Company B (Rockwall Cavalry)
  • Company F (Lancaster Guards)
  • 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 I (Titus Grays)
  • Company B (Wood Co. Rebels)
  • Company B (Holford Cavalry)
  • Company E (Red River Dixie Boys)
  • Company G (Dreadnaughts)
  • Company G
  • 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
  • 20th Texas Cavalry Regiment (Bass' Regiment)
  • Company B (Caldwell Co. Rangers)
  • Company G
  • Company H
  • 21st Texas Cavalry Regiment (Carter's 1st Texas Lancers; 1st Regiment, Carter's Brigade)
  • 22nd Texas Cavalry Regiment (1st Indian-Texas Cavalry)
  • Company D (Stephens Cavalry)
  • 23rd Texas Cavalry Regiment (Gould's Regiment; 27th Cavalry)
  • 24th Texas Cavalry Regiment (Wilkes's 2nd Lancers; 2nd Regiment, Carter's Brigade; 1st Infantry, Consolidated)
  • Company B (Caldwell Co. Rangers)
  • 25th Texas Cavalry Regiment (Gillespie's 3rd Lancers; 3d Regiment, Carter's Brigade; 1st Infantry, Consolidated)
  • 26th Texas Cavalry Regiment (Davis's Cavalry; Debray's Mounted Battalion)
    Flag of the 26th Texas Cavalry
  • 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 C (J.P. Henderson Rangers)
  • Company D (Whitfield Rifles)
  • Company E (Lone Star Rangers)
  • Company I (Titus Rangers)
  • 28th Texas Cavalry Regiment (Randal's 1st Lancers)
  • Company L
  • 29th Texas Cavalry Regiment (De Morse's Regiment)
  • 31st Texas Cavalry Regiment (Hawpe's Regiment; Guess's Cavalry Battalion)
  • 32nd Texas Cavalry Regiment (Andrews's 15th Cavalry; Crump's Battalion; Mounted Volunteers)
  • Company G (Lamar Cavalry)
  • Company K
  • 35th Texas Cavalry Regiment (Rountree's Cavalry Battalion; Brown's Regiment)
  • Company A (Columbia Blues)
  • Company G (Brazoria Rangers)
  • Hargrove's Company (Hood's Guerillas)
  • 35th Texas Cavalry Regiment (Likens' and Burns' Cavalry Battalions and three companies transferred from Terrell's Regiment; Likens's Regiment)
  • 36th Texas Cavalry Regiment (Woods's 32nd Cavalry)
  • 37th Texas Cavalry Regiment (Terrell's Cavalry Battalion; Terrell's 34th Cavalry)
  • Company A
  • 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[]

  • 1st Cavalry (Partisan Rangers)

Organized in June 1862 by Walter P. Lane; disbanded after the surrender of the Trans-Mississippi Department on May 26, 1865.[5]

  • 2nd Cavalry (Partisan Rangers)

Began to be organized in October 1862, by ; operational in March 1863. Disbanded after the surrender of the Trans-Mississippi Department on May 26, 1865.[6]

  • Company K
  • 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)
  • Company K (Dixie Boys)
  • 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 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 Field Battery (Edgar's Company, Light Artillery)
  • 2nd Field Battery (McMahan's Company)
  • 4th Field Battery (Mechling's Company; Van Dorn Light Artillery)
  • 5th Field Battery (Creuzbauer's Company)
  • 6th Field Battery
  • 7th Field Battery (Moseley's Company, Light Artillery)
  • 8th Field Battery (Dege's Light Artillery Battalion)
  • 9th Field Battery (Daniel's Company; Lamar Artillery)
  • 10th Field Battery (Pratt's/Hynson's Company; Sewart Artillery)
  • 11th Field Battery (Howell's Company, Light Artillery)
  • 12th Field Battery (Sayers/Nettles Company, Valverde Battery)
  • 13th Field Battery (Wilson's/Gonzales'/Hughes's Company, Light Artillery)
  • 14th Field Battery (Dashiell's Company)
  • 15th Field Battery (Nichols's Company)
  • 16th Field Battery (Gibson's Company)
  • 17th 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[]

    • (Hardeman`s, 31st Cavalry)
    • (Baylor’s, Arizona Rangers)
    • (Madison`s/Phillips')
    • (Baird's/Showalter's)
  • 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 ; 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[]

  1. ^ Estes, Claud (1912). List of field officers, regiments and battalions in the Confederate States Army 1861-1865. Macon, Georgia, part 2, p. 60.
  2. ^ a b Smith, David Paul. "First Regiment Texas Mounted Riflemen." Handbook of Texas Online. Retrieved March 06, 2020.
  3. ^ a b Ivey, Darren L. (2010). The Texas Rangers. McFarland & Co. Inc., p. 118.
  4. ^ Estes 1912 op.cit., p. 62.
  5. ^ Matthews, James. "First Texas Partisan Rangers." Handbook of Texas Online. Retrieved March 08, 2020.
  6. ^ Mathews, James. "Second Texas Partisan Rangers." Handbook of Texas Online. Retrieved March 08, 2020.
  7. ^ a b Grear, Charles D. "Fifth Texas Partisan Rangers." Handbook of Texas Online. Retrieved March 08, 2020.
  8. ^ Smith, David Paul. "Frontier Organization." Handbook of Texas Online. Retrieved March 06, 2020.
  9. ^ Mathews, Jamers. "Saufley's Scouting Battalion." Handbook of Texas Online. Retrieved March 08, 2020.
  10. ^ a b Dunnam, Robert. "Frontier Regiment." Handbook of Texas Online. Retrieved March 06, 2020.
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