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Texas
Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...

American Civil War
American Civil War
The American Civil War was a civil war fought in the United States of America. In response to the election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States, 11 southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America ; the other 25...

Confederate
Confederate States of America
The Confederate States of America was a government set up from 1861 to 1865 by 11 Southern slave states of the United States of America that had declared their secession from the U.S...

Units.

Infantry

1st Infantry Battalion (15th Infantry)
1st Infantry Battalion (Burnet's Sharp Shooters)
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)
1st Infantry, Consolidated
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 & Cavalry Battalion (Kirby's Battalion)
3rd Infantry (Luckett's 1st Infantry)
Company A (Gillespie Rifles)
Company B
Company C (Lone Star Defenders)
4th Infantry Battalion (Oswald's German Battalion), 6 months, 1861-62
4th Infantry (Hood's Regiment; John Bell Regiment)
Company A (Hardeman Rifles)
Company B (Tom Green Rifles; Austin City Light Infantry)
Company C (Robertson Co. Five Shooters)
Company D (Guadalupe Rangers; Knights of Guadalupe Co.)
Company E (Lone Star Guards)
Company F (Mustang Grays)
Company G (Grime Co. Grays)
Company H (Porter's Guards)
Company I (Navarro Rifles)
Company K (Henderson Guards; Sandy Pt. Mounted Rifles)
5th Infantry Battalion (22nd Infantry)
5th Infantry (Archer's Regiment)
Company A (Bayou City Guards)
Company B (Colorado Co.)
Company C (Leon Hunters)
Company D (Waverly Confederates)
Company E (Dixie Rifles)
Company F (Company Invincibles)
Company G (Milam Co. Grays)
Company H (Texas Polk Rifles)
Company I (Texas Aids)
Company K (Polk Co. Flying Artillery)
6th Infantry Battalion (11th Infantry & Cavalry Battalion)
6th Infantry (Likens's Battalion; Garland's Regiment; 1st Infantry, Consolidated)
Company A (Lavaca Guards)
Company B (Lone Star Rifles)
Company C
Company D (Matagorda Coast Guards)
Company G (Travis Rifles)
Company H (Alamo Guards)
Company I
Company K
Company L
7th Infantry (Gregg's Regiment; 1st Infantry, Consolidated)
Company A (Waco Guards)
Company B (Johnson Guards)
Company C
8th Infantry Battalion (Hobby's Battalion; 8th Infantry)
Company A (Van Dorn Guards)
Company B (Ruess Battery)
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, 1861-62
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)
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 Brigade; 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; Walker's Greyhounds
Walker's Greyhounds
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20th Infantry
20th Texas Infantry
The 20th Regiment Texas Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War.-Service:...

(Elmore's Regiment)
21st Infantry Battalion (Griffin's Battalion; 21st Infantry)
21st Infantry (Spaight'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

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)
Company H (Rusk Co. Volunteers)
1st Cavalry (Partisan Rangers), 1862-65
1st Cavalry Arizona Brigade, 1863-Jan 65
2nd Cavalry (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)
2nd Cavalry (Partisan Rangers)
Company K
2nd Cavalry, Arizona Brigade, 1863
3rd Cavalry Battalion (Yager's Mounted Rifles; 1st Cavalry)
3rd Cavalry (South Kansas-Texas Mounted Volunteers)
Company C (Lone Star Defenders)
Company G (Dead Shot Rangers)
Company K (Flora Legion)
3rd Cavalry Battalion, Arizona Brigade
4th Cavalry (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)
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)
Company A
Company B (Rockwall Cavalry)
Company F (Lancaster Guards)
7th Cavalry Battalion (26th Cavalry)
7th Cavalry (7th Mounted Volunteers; 3rd Regiment, Sibley's Brigade)
Company A
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)
8th Cavalry Battalion (Taylor's Mounted Rifles; 1st Cavalry)
8th Cavalry (Terry's Texas Rangers
Terry's Texas Rangers
The 8th Texas Cavalry, , popularly known as Terry's Texas Rangers, was a group of Texas volunteers for the Confederate States Army assembled by Colonel Benjamin Franklin Terry in August 1861...

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Company B (Mounted Rangers)
Company F (Lone Star Rangers)
Company K (Tom Lubbock Guards)
Company L (Wharton Guards)
9th Cavalry Battalion (Partisan Rangers; 5th Partisan Rangers)
9th Cavalry (Sims's 4th Cavalry)
Company I (Titus Grays)
10th Cavalry Battalion (5th Partisan Rangers)
10th Cavalry (Locke's Regiment)
Company B (Wood Co. Rebels)
11th Cavalry & Infantry Battalion (21st Infantry)
11th Cavalry (Young's 3rd Cavalry)
Company B (Holford Cavalry)
Company E (Red River Dixie Boys)
12th Cavalry Battalion (35th Cavalry)
12th Cavalry (Parsons's 4th Mounted Dragoons)
Company D (Bastrop Cavalry Company)
Company G (Kaufman Guards)
Company I (Kaufman Guards)
13th Cavalry Battalion
13th Cavalry (Burnett's Mounted Volunteers)
Company G (Dreadnaughts)
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)
Company C
Company I
16th Cavalry (Fitzhugh's Regiment; 3rd Regiment, Johnson's Brigade)
Company G
17th Cavalry (Moore's Regiment; 1st Infantry, Consolidated)
18th Cavalry (Darnell's Regiment; 1st Infantry, Consolidated)
19th Cavalry (Burford's Regiment)
Company F
Company G
Company I
20th Cavalry (Bass' Regiment)
Company B (Caldwell Co. Rangers)
Company G
Company H
21st Cavalry (1st Texas Lancers; 1st Regiment, Carter's Brigade)
22nd Cavalry (1st Indian
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Company D (Stephens Cavalry)
23rd Cavalry (Gould's Regiment; 27th Cavalry)
24th Cavalry (Wilkes's 2nd Lancers; 2nd Regiment, Carter's Brigade; 1st Infantry, Consolidated)
Company B (Caldwell Co. Rangers)
25th Cavalry (Gillespie's 3rd Lancers; 3d Regiment, Carter's Brigade; 1st Infantry, Consolidated)
26th Cavalry (Davis's Cavalry; Debray's Mounted Battalion)
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)
27th Cavalry (Whitfield's Legion; 1st Legion)
Company A (Texas Fencibles; Texas Invincibles)
Company C (J.P. Henderson Rangers)
Company D (Whitfield Rifles)
Company E (Lone Star Rangers)
Company I (Titus Rangers)
28th Cavalry (Randal's 1st Lancers)
Company L
29th Cavalry (De Morse's Regiment)
30th Cavalry (Gurley's 1st Partisan Rangers)
Company K (Dixie Boys)
31st Cavalry (Hawpe's Regiment; Guess's Cavalry Battalion)
32nd Cavalry, Dismounted (15th Cavalry; Crump's Battalion; Mounted Volunteers)
Company G (Lamar Cavalry)
Company K
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)
Company A (Columbia Blues)
Company G (Brazoria Rangers)
Hargrove's Company (Hood's Guerillas)
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)
Company A

Consolidated Cavalry

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

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)
Company C (Houston Turner Rifles)
Company F (Jeff Davis Guards; Houston's Rough & Ready Company)

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)

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
Waul's Legion
Waul's Legion was a combined arms force from Texas that fought for the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. Raised in the spring of 1862 near Brenham, Texas by Brigadier General Thomas Neville Waul, the legion originally consisted of twelve infantry companies, six cavalry...

(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
Bethel Coopwood
Bethel Coopwood was a soldier in the Mexican American and Civil Wars, lawyer, judge, and historian.-Early Life:Coopwood was born on May 1, 1827, in Lawrence County, Alabama. He moved to Texas in 1846 and fought in a cavalry regiment in the Mexican-American War. In 1854 he moved to California,...

's Spy Company, San Elizario Spy Company
San Elizario Spy Company
The San Elizario Spy Company or Coopwood Spy Company was an Independent Volunteer Company of cavalry formed by Captain Bethel Coopwood and mustered into Confederate service on July 11, 1861 in El Paso, Texas. It had four officers, eight NCOs and 36 personnel, some from California but most from the...

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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
West Texas
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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

Infantry

Cavalry

Consolidated Cavalry

Light Artillery

Heavy Artillery

Infantry

Cavalry

Misc

Cavalry

Infantry

Artillery

See also