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  • Demitrio Jurado (1850 - 1870)
    Demitrio Jurado (1850 - 1870) Grave: Burial Details Unknown name Demetrio Jurado event Military Service military unit (film note)Third Infantry (First Infantry, Luckett's Regiment) nara publicatio...
  • James Randall Bellfield Barbee (1834 - 1902)
    Civil War Veteran - J.R.B. Barbee, Capt. Co E Gouldis Reg Randle Brigade, CSA. (Texas). Civil War service records recorded in the TX State Archives show Captain J. R. B. Barbee's muster toll of 45 men...
  • John William Cole, (CSA) (1838 - 1917)
    Civil War Veteran - John William Cole, served in the 21st Texas Infantry, Company A. His brother in law was also in this unit. Source:
  • David Underwood (1823 - 1883)
    Civil War Veteran - David Underwood, Co I 20 Texas Infantry, CSA Sources:
  • Capt William Champion Whitaker (1836 - 1865)
    Capt. William Champion Whitaker served in Young's Regiment, Walker's Division, Texas CSA during the Civil War.Note: For additional information regarding the Walker's Division, TX during the Civil War, ...

List of Texas Civil War units

Army of the Confederate States of America

Infantry

  • 1st Infantry Battalion (15th Infantry)
  • 1st Infantry Battalion (Burnet's Sharp Shooters)
  • 1st Infantry (2nd Infantry; Ragged Old First)
  • 1st Infantry, Consolidated
  • 2nd Infantry (Moore's 1st Infantry; Galveston Regiment; Van Dorn Regiment)
  • 3rd Infantry & Cavalry Battalion (Kirby's Battalion)
  • 3rd Infantry (Luckett's 1st Infantry)
  • 4th Infantry Battalion (Oswald's German Battalion), 6 months, 1861-62
  • 4th Infantry (Hood's Regiment; John Bell Regiment)
  • 5th Infantry Battalion (22nd Infantry)
  • 5th Infantry (Archer's Regiment)
  • 6th Infantry Battalion (11th Infantry & Cavalry Battalion)
  • 6th Infantry (Likens's Battalion; Garland's Regiment; 1st Infantry, Consolidated)
  • 7th Infantry (Gregg's Regiment; 1st Infantry, Consolidated)
  • 8th Infantry Battalion (Hobby's Battalion; 8th Infantry)
  • 9th Infantry (Young's; Maxey's 8th Infantry)
  • 9th Infantry (Nichols's 5th Infantry), 6 months, 1861-62
  • 10th Infantry (Nelson's Regiment; 1st Infantry, Consolidated)
  • 11th Infantry (Roberts's Rangers)
  • 12th Infantry (Young's 8th Infantry)
  • 13th Infantry (Bates's Infantry Battalion)
  • 14th Infantry (Clark's Regiment)
  • 15th Infantry (Speight's Brigade; Speight's Regiment)
  • 16th Infantry (Flournoy's 7th Infantry)
  • 17th Infantry (Allen's Regiment)
  • 18th Infantry (Ochiltree's Regiment)
  • 19th Infantry (Waterhouse's Regiment; Walker's Greyhounds)
  • 20th Infantry (Elmore's Regiment)
  • 21st Infantry Battalion (Griffin's Battalion; 21st Infantry)
  • 21st Infantry (Spaight's Battalion; Swamp Angels; Spaight's Regiment)
  • 22nd Infantry (Hubbard's Battalion)

Cavalry

  • 1st Cavalry Battalion, 1861-May 62
  • 1st Cavalry (McCulloch's Regiment; 1st Mounted Riflemen; 8th Cavalry Battalion), 1861-1862
  • 1st Cavalry (Buchel's; Yager's 1st Mounted Rifles)
  • 1st Cavalry (Partisan Rangers), 1862-65
  • 1st Cavalry Arizona Brigade, 1863-Jan 65
  • 2nd Cavalry (2nd Mounted Rifles; Chisum's Regiment; Partisan Rangers)
  • 2nd Cavalry (Partisan Rangers)
  • 2nd Cavalry, Arizona Brigade, 1863
  • 3rd Cavalry Battalion (Yager's Mounted Rifles; 1st Cavalry)
  • 3rd Cavalry (South Kansas-Texas Mounted Volunteers)
  • 3rd Cavalry Battalion, Arizona Brigade
  • 4th Cavalry (4th Mounted Volunteers; 1st Regiment, Sibley's Brigade)
  • 4th Cavalry, Arizona Brigade (Baird's Cavalry Reg't)
  • 5th Cavalry (Martin's 5th Mounted Volunteers; 2nd Regiment, Sibley's Brigade)
  • 5th Cavalry (Partisan Rangers)
  • 6th Cavalry Battalion (Gould's Battalion)
  • 6th Cavalry (Stone's Regiment; 2nd Cavalry)
  • 7th Cavalry Battalion (26th Cavalry)
  • 7th Cavalry (7th Mounted Volunteers; 3rd Regiment, Sibley's Brigade)
  • 8th Cavalry Battalion (Taylor's Mounted Rifles; 1st Cavalry)
  • 8th Cavalry (Terry's Texas Rangers)
  • 9th Cavalry Battalion (Partisan Rangers; 5th Partisan Rangers)
  • 9th Cavalry (Sims's 4th Cavalry)
  • 10th Cavalry Battalion (5th Partisan Rangers)
  • 10th Cavalry (Locke's Regiment)
  • 11th Cavalry & Infantry Battalion (21st Infantry)
  • 11th Cavalry (Young's 3rd Cavalry)
  • 12th Cavalry Battalion (35th Cavalry)
  • 12th Cavalry (Parsons's 4th Mounted Dragoons)
  • 13th Cavalry Battalion
  • 13th Cavalry (Burnett's Mounted Volunteers)
  • 14th Cavalry Battalion (33rd Cavalry)
  • 14th Cavalry (Johnson's Mounted Volunteers; 1st Regiment, Johnson's Brigade)
  • 15th Cavalry (2nd Regiment, Johnson's Brigade; 1st Infantry, Consolidated)
  • 16th Cavalry (Fitzhugh's Regiment; 3rd Regiment, Johnson's Brigade)
  • 17th Cavalry (Moore's Regiment; 1st Infantry, Consolidated)
  • 18th Cavalry (Darnell's Regiment; 1st Infantry, Consolidated)
  • 19th Cavalry (Burford's Regiment)
  • 20th Cavalry (Bass' Regiment)
  • 21st Cavalry (1st Texas Lancers; 1st Regiment, Carter's Brigade)
  • 22nd Cavalry (1st Indian-Texas Cavalry)
  • 23rd Cavalry (Gould's Regiment; 27th Cavalry)
  • 24th Cavalry (Wilkes's 2nd Lancers; 2nd Regiment, Carter's Brigade; 1st Infantry, Consolidated)
  • 25th Cavalry (Gillespie's 3rd Lancers; 3d Regiment, Carter's Brigade; 1st Infantry, Consolidated)
  • 26th Cavalry (Davis's Cavalry; Debray's Mounted Battalion)
  • 27th Cavalry (Whitfield's Legion; 1st Legion)
  • 28th Cavalry (Randal's 1st Lancers)
  • 29th Cavalry (De Morse's Regiment)
  • 30th Cavalry (Gurley's 1st Partisan Rangers)
  • 31st Cavalry (Hawpe's Regiment; Guess's Cavalry Battalion)
  • 32nd Cavalry, Dismounted (15th Cavalry; Crump's Battalion; Mounted Volunteers)
  • 33rd Cavalry (Duff's Partisan Rangers; 14th Cavalry Battalion)
  • 34th Cavalry (Alexander's 2nd Partisan Rangers)
  • 35th Cavalry (Rountree's Cavalry Battalion; Brown's Regiment)
  • 35th Cavalry (Burns's Cavalry Battalion; Likens's Regiment)
  • 36th Cavalry (Woods's 32nd Cavalry)
  • 37th Cavalry (Terrell's Cavalry Battalion; Terrell's 34th Cavalry)

Consolidated Cavalry

  • 17th (Consolidated) Dismounted Cavalry
  • 24th and 25th (Consolidated) Cavalry

Mounted Infantry

Mounted Rifles

  • Mounted Mountain Guards (Capt. R.T. Posey, frontier forces West Texas)

Artillery

Light Artillery

  • 1st Field Battery (Edgar's Company, Light Artillery)
  • 2nd Field Battery (McMahan's Company)
  • 4th Field Battery (Van Dorn Light Artillery)
  • 5th Field Battery
  • 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 (Hynson's Company; Sewart Artillery)
  • 11th Field Battery (Howell's Company, Light Artillery)
  • 12th Field Battery (Sayers's Company; Nettles's Company; Light Artillery; Valverde Battery)
  • 13th Field Battery (Wilson's/Gonzales's/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 (Stafford's Company; Texas Guards Artillery)
  • 4th (Shea's) Battalion, Artillery

Heavy Artillery

  • 1st Heavy Artillery (Cook's Regiment)

State Troops

Infantry

  • 1st State Troops
  • 1st State Troops, Infantry, 6 months, 1863-64
  • 2nd State Troops, Infantry, 6 months, 1863-64
  • 3rd State Troops, Infantry, 6 months, 1863-64
  • 4th Infantry, State Troops, 6 months, 1863-64
  • 5th Infantry, State Troops, 6 months, 1863-64
  • 1st Battalion, State Troops, Infantry
  • 20th Battalion, State Troops
  • 30th State Troops, (The Medina Guards) from Von Ormy. Mustered as cavalry unit in 1862, then converted to infantry unit
  • 24th Battalion, Infantry, State Troops
  • 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)
  • Conscripts, Texas

Cavalry

  • 1st Cavalry, State Troops, 6 months, 1863-64
  • 2nd Cavalry, State Troops, 6 months, 1863-64
  • 3rd Cavalry, State Troops, 6 months, 1863-64
  • 4th Cavalry, State Troops, 6 months, 1863--64
  • 1st Battalion, Cavalry, State Troops, 6 months, 1863-64
  • 2nd Battalion, Cavalry, State Troops, 6 months, 1863-64
  • 3rd Battalion, Cavalry, State Troops, 6 months, 1863-64
  • Doughty's Company, Cavalry, State Troops (Refugio Spies)
  • Terry's Mounted Company (State Troops)

Artillery

  • Good's Company, State Troops, Artillery (Dallas Light Artillery)

Misc

  • 3rd (Kirby's) Battalion, Infantry and Cavalry, 6 months, 1861-62
  • 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
  • Benton's Company, Volunteers
  • Brazoria County Minutemen
  • Duke's Company, Volunteers (Jefferson Guards)
  • Graham's Company, Mounted Coast Guards, State Troops
  • Granbury's Consolidated Brigade (1st Consolidated Regiment)
  • Greer's Rocket Battery
  • Hampton's Company, State Troops (Victoria Blues)
  • Killough's Company, Home Guards (Wheelock Home Guards)
  • Lavaca County Minutemen
  • McMinn's Company
  • McNeel's Company, Local Defense Troops (McNeel Coast Guards)
  • Merriman's Company, Local Defense Troops (Orange County Coast Guards)
  • Miscellaneous, Texas
  • 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)
  • Teel's Company, State Troops, 6 months, 1861
  • Thomas' Company, Partisan Rangers, 4 months, 1862-63
  • Trevenio's Squad, Partisan Mounted Volunteers
  • Waul's Legion (Infantry, Cavalry, and Artillery)

Cavalry

  • Arizona Brigade
    • Hardeman's Cavalry (1st Regiment, Arizona Brigade; 31st Cavalry)
    • Baylor's Cavalry (2nd Regiment, Arizona Brigade; Baylor’s Regiment, Arizona Rangers)
    • Madison's Cavalry (3rd Regiment, Arizona Brigade; Phillips' Regiment)
    • Baird's Cavalry (4th Regiment, Arizona Brigade; Showalter's Regiment)
  • Benavides' Cavalry
  • Bone's Company, Cavalry
  • Border's Battalion, Cavalry
  • Border's Cavalry (Anderson's Regiment)
  • Bourland's Cavalry (Bourlands Border Regiment)
  • Chisum's Cavalry (Dismounted), (2d Partisan Rangers; Stone's Regiment)
  • Coopwood's Spy Company, San Elizario Spy Company, (Cavalry)
  • Crump's Cavalry (Lane's Cavalry, 1st Partisan Rangers)
  • Durant's Company, Cavalry (Local Defense)
  • Frontier Battalion, Cavalry
  • Gano's Squadron, Cavalry
  • Gidding's Battalion, Cavalry
  • Good's Battalion, Cavalry
  • Lilley's Company, Cavalry (Pardoned Deserters)
  • Mann's Battalion, Cavalry
  • Mann's Cavalry (Bradford's Regiment)
  • Martin's Cavalry (5th Partisan Rangers
  • McCord's Frontier Cavalry
  • McDowell's Company, Cavalry (Lockhart Volunteers)
  • Morgan's Cavalry
  • Ragsdale's Company, Cavalry (Red River Dragoons)
  • Ragsdale's Battalion, Cavalry
  • Randolph's, W. H. Company, Cavalry
  • Saufley's Scouting Battalion, Cavalry
  • Steele's Command, Cavalry
  • Sutton's Company, Cavalry (Graham Rangers)
  • Terry's Cavalry
  • Trevenio's, L. Company, Cavalry
  • Upton's Company, Cavalry (Local Defense)
  • Waller's Cavalry
  • Wells' Battalion, Cavalry
  • Wells' Cavalry
  • Mounted Mountain Guards West Texas Defence force, frontier Brig.

Infantry

  • Cameron's, Watts Company, Infantry
  • Carter's Company, Infantry (Austin City Light Infantry)
  • Chambers' Battalion, Reserve Corps, Infantry
  • Cotton's Company, Infantry (Sabine Volunteers)
  • Cunningham's Company, Infantry (The Mustang Grays)
  • Currie's Company, Infantry
  • Griffin's Battalion, Infantry (Griffin's Regiment, Infantry; 21st Regiment or Battalion, Infantry)
  • Houston Battalion, Infantry (Detailed Men)
  • Maxey's Company, Light Infantry and Riflemen (Lamar Rifles, State Service)
  • Rutherford's Company, Infantry (Unattached)
  • Timmons' Infantry
  • Townsend's Company, Infantry (Robertson Five Shooters)
  • Whaley's Company, Infantry
  • Yarbrough's Company, Infantry (Smith County Light 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