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Confederate Military History : A Library of Confederate states History in Thirteen Volumes, written by distinguished men of the South and edited by Gen Clement A. Evans of Georgia.... Volume XII Alabama and Mississippi ; Alabama section written by Lieut. Gen. Joseph Wheeler.
Mississippi section written by Colonel Charles E. Hooker
The Blue and Grey press, Secaucus New Jersey © 1899 by Confederate Publishing Company[ REF1 ] page 128 Volume XII Alabama and Mississippi
[ Ref 2 ] page 163 Volume XII Alabama and Mississippi
[ ref mc1 ] from page 195 Volume XII Alabama and Mississippi
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Confederate Military History : A Library of Confederate states History in Thirteen Volumes, written by distinguished men of the South and edited by Gen Clement A. Evans of Georgia.... Volume XI ; Texas By Colonel O.M. Roberts
The Blue and Grey press, Secaucus New Jersey © 1899 by Confederate Publishing CompanyChapter XIV
Texas troops in service in other southern states - The battles of shiloh, Vicksburg and chickamauga - Texas troops in Louisiana and arkansas - engagements at camp bisland, berwick bay,fordoche,bayou bourbeaux,mansfield,pleasant hill,and jenkins ferry.
[ pages 130-131] .... There were on duty in the state of mississippi in 1862-63 , Gregg's brigade; Seventeenth Texas regiment;Major K.M. Van Zandt; and under command of Brig. General L.S.Ross, Sixth Texas cavalry ( originally Col W.B. Stone's in which L.S. Ross was major) Willis' battalion of waul's legion, subsequently Third Texas Cavalry, Giles Boggess colonel; Ninth cavalry, D.W. Jones, Colonel; Whitfield's Legion, J.W. Hawkins colonel; Sixth Texas Cavalry, Jack Wharton, Colonel and P.F. Ross Lt. Colonel.
At Vicksburg the Texas troops were Waul's legion, Col. T.N. Waul commanding;infantry battalion, Major E.S. Bolling,infantry battalion, Lt. Colonel Jas. Wrigley; Cavalry battalion, Lieut.-Col. Thos. J. Cleveland; Artillery Company, Capt, J.G. Wall; second Texas infantry, Col. Ashbel Smith.....
[ page 133 ]
... About the 1st of March, 1864 General Banks came up the Mississippi river with gunboats,transports and an army of 30,000 - 40, 000 troops and commenced a march up Red River.....the Battle of Mansfield was fought by the texas and Louisiana troops under the command of gen Dick Taylor, The son of " Old Rough and Ready" President Taylor.
from general taylor's reprt it is learned that the following Texas forces were in the battle of Mansfield and that of Pleasant hill, which took place on the next day: Maj- Gen John G. Walker's infantry division, including the three brigades of Gens. T.N. Waul, Wm R Scurry and Horace Randall....
Chapter XV
Texas troops in Arkansas and Louisiana move southward- changes and promotions - no more battles - camp Grice - news of the surrender of R.E. Lee - Generals Kirby smith, Magruder and forney address the soldiers- The "break-up" and travel home- surrender-It's terms- Texas generals and Colonels- Albert Sidney Johnson a texas officer.
The Texas troops that were in the battle of jenkins ferry were ordered southward and about the middle of May 1864 Col. W.H. King was promoted to Brigadier-general and assigned to the second brigade, General Waul having resigned on account of wounds.
Appendix
A supplemetal account of the service of Texas commands outside that state- compiled from the official records.
[ page 163]
Chickasaw Bayou
Later in 1862 a Texas Cavalry brigade was organized in Maury's Division Under Lt.-Col. John S. Griffith, consisting of his regiment, the first legion under Lieut.-Col. E.R. Hawkins, The third cavalry under Lieut.-Col J.S. Boggess, the sixth cavalry under Capt. Jack Wharton, and Mc Nally's Battery. They fought a spirited engagement at oakland, Mississippi, Dec. 3rd. ( 1862)
Maury's division reached Vicksburg just as Stephen D. Lee had repelled the attack of General Sherman at Chickasaw Bayou.....
[ December 26-29, 1862 ]
[ page 169]
Greenwood and Raymond
General grant, foiled in his previous attempts to flank Vicksburg, landed an army on the Louisiana point oposite, and prepared to gain a lodgement south of the city. Beforehand he caused expeditions to attempt the bayou passages to the north, and the most formidable of these was met by the Second Texas and Waul's Legion, with two Mississippi regiments, at Greenwood on the Yazoo.
with a cotton bale battery, these troops defeated two ironclads, mounting 10 and 11 inch guns, supported by a large infantry force. general Loring, reporting the affair, gave earnest praise to Col. T.N. Waul and his men for service in the fortifications, and to Col. Ashbel Smith and his regiment for gallantry and skill in preventing the enemy from turning the right flank.
[ Page 170 ]
Siege of Vicksburg [ May-July 1863]
The Second Texas and Wauls' legion went through the siege inside the Vicksburg lines, and on the 4th of July 1863, were surrendered. Waul's Legion served with gen. S.D. Lee's brigade, under Gen. C.L. Stevenson and made a glorious record.
[ page 192 ]
Brigades of Ross and Ector in 1865
By an order of major-general Forrest, February 13,1865, Gen. W.H.Jackson was ordered to consolidate and organize a division of cavalry to be composed of three brigades, one of which was to be Ross' Texas brigade, to be commanded by Brig-gen L.S. Ross, consisting of the third, sixth and Ninth Texas regiments under Colonel Griffith, eleventh and seventeenth arkansas consolidated, Willis' battalion and Cobb's scouts.
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