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Willis' Battalion Texas Cavalry
Field Officers
Thomas N. Waul Colonel
Leonidas M. Willis Major/Lt. Col.
Thomas M. Harwood Major
B.J. Hogue Major
H.S. Parker Major
John R. Smith Major
Benjamin F. Weeks Major
Field Assignments
May-Aug 1862 Eastern District of Texas, Trans- Mississippi Dept.
Aug-Sep 1862 Waul's Legion, District of Ark.Trans-Miss. Dept.
Sep-Oct 1862 Waul's Legion, Lovell's Div.District of Miss, Dept. #2
Oct-Dec 1862 Waul's Legion, Loring's Div. Lovell's Corps, Army of West Tenn., Dept. of Miss. and East Louisiana
January 2nd ,1863
Waul's Legion is assigned by general order number 5 to :
Lovell's Corps of Maj. Gen. W. W. Loring's First Division Army of North Miss. Dept. of Miss. and East Louisiana.First Division comprised of Tilghman's brigade, Rust's brigade, and Waul's Texas Legion, Colonel Waul commanding.
Jan- Mar 1863 Waul's Legion, 2nd Military District, Dept. of Miss. and East Louisiana
Mar-Apr 1863 Moore's Brigade, Loring's Div. 2nd Military District, Dept. of Miss. and East Louisiana
April 1863 Moore's Brigade, Loring's Div.,Dept. of Miss. and East La.
Apr-July 1863 Waul's Legion, Stevenson's Div. Dept of Miss. and East La.
May-Sep 1863 McCulloch's Cavalry Brigade,5th Military District, Dept. of Miss. and East La.
Sep-Oct 1863 Chalmers' Cavalry Brigade, 5th Military District
Sep-Oct 1863 Chalmers' Cavalry Brigade Dept. of Miss. and East La.
Oct-Nov 1863 McCulloch's Brigade, Chalmers' Cavalry Division,Dept. of Miss. and East La.
Nov '63- Jan '64 McCulloch's Brigade,Chalmers' Dvision, Lee's Cavalry Corps, Dept. of Miss. and East La.
Jan 1864 McCulloch's Brigade, Chalmers' Division, Forrest's Cavalry Corps Dept. of Miss. and East La.
Jan-Sep 1864 McCulloch's/Wade's Brigade,Forrest's Cavalry Corps District of the Gulf, Dept. of Ala, Miss. and East La.
Sep-Oct 1864 McCulloch's Cavalry Brigade, Liddell's Division, District of the Gulf, Dept of Ala., Miss,. and East La.
Oct-Nov 1864 McCulloch's Cavalry Brigade,Liddell's Division, District of the Gulf, Dept. of Ala., Miss., and East La.
Nov '64-Feb '65 McCulloch's Cavalry Brigade,District of the Gulf, Dept. of Ala., Miss., and East La.
Feb-May 1865 Ross' Brigade, Jackson's Div.Forrest's Cavalry Corps, Dept.of Alabama, Mississippi, and East Louisiana.
Waul's Texas Legion Cavalry Battlion was involved in numerous and varied actions, engagements, and skirmishes during service to the Confederate States of America. The following is a more detailed list of these actions.....(Chronologically listed)
Operations on the Mississippi Central RR from Bolivar, Tenn. to Coffeville Miss. (Grant's Central Miss. Campaign)-
Holly Springs, Miss.; Oxford Miss.; Coffevilee Miss.; Holly Springs, Miss.; Raymond Miss.;
Jackson Miss.;
Operations against the Advance on Jackson Miss.;
Siege-Jackson, Miss.;
Operations on the Memphis Charleston RR Alabama;
Barton Station, Cane Creek, Dickinson's Station, Alabama; Cherokee Station, Ala.; Cane Creek, Ala.; Little Bear Creek, Tuscumbia, Ala.; Cherokee Station.
Operations around Natchez, Miss.-
Okolona, Miss.; Natchez, Miss.;
Forrest's Expedition in West Tennessee and Kentucky-
Union City, Tenn.; Fort Anderson, Paducah Ky.
Raleigh, Tenn.; Cypress Swamp, Tenn.; Fort Pillow, Tenn.;
Operations against Sturgis' Expedition from
Memphis, Tenn. to Mississippi
Brice's Crossroads (Tishomingo Creek) near
Guntown, Miss.
Ripley, Miss.
Operations against Expedition from Vicksburg
to the Pearl river Miss.
Jackson, Miss., Clinton, Miss.; Pontotoc, Miss.,
Camargo's Cross Roads, Harrisburg Miss.
Harrisburg, Miss.; Old Town (Tishomingo Creek) Miss.; Ellistown, Miss.; Tallahatchie River, Miss.; Oxford, Miss.; Hurricane Creek, Miss. twice in 6 days; Abbeville, Miss.;
Operations in Northern Georgia and Northern Alabama-
Decatur, Ala.; Ladiga Terrapin Creek, Ala.; Shoal Creek, Ala.
Demonstration on Murfreesborough, Tenn.
Wilkinson's Pike, Tenn.; Action near Murphreesborough, Tenn.; Nashville, Tenn.;
Hollow Tree Gap, Tenn.; West Harpeth River, Tenn.; Spring Hill, Tenn.; Rutherford's Creek, Tenn.; Lynnville, Tenn.; Richland Creek, Tenn.;
King's Gap (Anthony's Gap, Devil's Gap) near Pulaski, Tenn.;
Decatur, Ala.; Leighton, Ala.;
Operations against Wilson's Raid from Chickasaw, Miss. to Selma Ala. and Macon Ga.
Montevallo, Ala.; Ebenezer Church near Maplesville, Ala.; Selma, Ala.; Northport near Tuscaloosa, Ala.;
Surrender, Citronelle, Alabama
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