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Twenty-second Cavalry Regiment. (Also called First Indian-Texas Regiment. ) Colonel, Robert H. Taylor ; lieutenant-colonel, William H. Johnson ; lieutenant- colonel, Thomas Lewelling : major ; colonel, James G. Stevens ; major ; licutenant-
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colonel, John A. Buck ; major ; lieutenant-colonel, George W. Merrick ; major ; lieutenant-colonel, Robert D. Stone.
Twenty-second Infantry Regiment. (Formed from Hubbard's Fifth Battalion. )
COLONEL N. C. GOULD.
COLONEL C. C. GILLESPIE.
- Colonel, Richard B. Hubbard ; lieutenant-colonel, Elias Everett Lott ; major ; lieutenant-colonel, John Job Canon ; major, Benjamin F. Parkes.
Was a part of Walker's division, and participated in the Louisiana campaigns.
Twenty-third Cavalry Regiment .- Colonel, Nicholas C. Gould ; lieutenant- colonel, Isaac A. Grant ; major ; lieutenant-colonel, John A. Corley ; major, Wil- liam B. Caton.
Was in service in Texas and the Indian Territory until the spring of 1864, when it went to Louisiana to meet General Banks's Red River expedition, and then it took an active part in all the engagements of that campaign.
Twenty-fourth Cavalry Regiment. (Second Lancers. )-Colonel, Francis Col- lett Wilkes ; lieutenant-colonel, Robert Reese Ney- land ; major ; colonel, William A. Taylor ; major ; lieutenant-colonel, Patrick H. Swearingen.
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COLONEL F. C. WILKES.
This regiment first saw service in Louisiana and Arkansas, and was captured at Arkansas Post in Jan- uary, 1863. After its exchange it served in the Ten- nessee campaigns, where it was consolidated with the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Twenty-fifth Texas Cavalry Regiments, and was in Deshler's brigade, Cleburne's division.
Twenty-fifth Cavalry Regiment. (Third Lan- cers. )-Colonel, Clayton Crawford Gillespie ; lieu- tenant-colonel, William Madison Neyland ; lieuten- ant-colonel (declined), Francis J. Boggs ; major, Joseph N. Dark ; major, Edward Bradford Pickett.
This regiment was in service in Louisiana and Arkansas until the spring of 1864, when it was captured at Arkansas Post. After it was exchanged it was consolidated with the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and
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Twenty-fourth Texas Cavalry Regiments, and took part in the Tennessee cam- paigns, in Deshler's brigade, Cleburne's division.
Twenty-sixth Cavalry Regiment .- Colonel, Xavier Blanchard de Bray ; lieu- tenant-colonel ; colonel, John J. Myers ; major ; lieutenant-colonel, Medard Menard; major, George W. Owens.
This regiment was raised in 1862, and was in Texas till the spring of 1864, when it went to Louisiana to meet General Banks's Red River expedition, where it . participated in all the engagements of that campaign, including the battles of Mansfield and Pleasant Hill. Its colonel, X. B. de Bray, was promoted to be brigadier-general.
Twenty-seventh Cavalry Regiment. (See Whitfield's Legion, history of Ross's brigade. )
Twenty-eighth Cavalry Regiment .-- Colonel, Horace Randal ; lieutenant-col- onel ; colonel, Eli H. Baxter, Jr .; major ; lieutenant-colonel, Henry G. Hall ; major, Patrick Henry.
This regiment saw active service in Arkansas and Louisiana, taking a prominent part in repulsing General Banks's Red River campaign in the spring of 1864.
Twenty-ninth Cavalry Regiment .- Colonel, Charles de Morse ; lieutenant- colonel, Otis G. Welch ; major, Joseph A. Carroll.
This regiment was in the Indian Territory, where it performed valuable services during two years.
Thirtieth Cavalry Regiment. (Also called First Partisan Rangers. )-Colonel, Edward Jeremiah Gurley ; lieutenant-colonel, Nicholas William Battle ; major, John H. Davenport.
This regiment served in the Indian Territory.
Thirty-first Teras Cavalry .- This regiment was organized in April, 1862, and the term of enlistment was "for the war," be it long or short. Its field officers were : colonel, Trezevant C. Hawpe ; lieutenant-colonel, George W. Guess ; major, Frederick J. Malone.
Company A was raised in Dallas County, and its commissioned officers were : captain, W. W. Peak ; first lieutenant, Thomas Flynn ; second lieutenant, William Smith : third lieutenant, M. I. Moore.
Company B was raised in Bosque County, and the names of only two of its commissioned officers have been ascertaincd, viz. : captain, ---- Anderson ; first lieutenant, Milton Jack.
Company C was raised in Bexar County, and its commissioned officers were : captain, John Duncan ; first lieutenant, James Tivey ; second lieutenant, C. I. Church ; third lieutenant, - Hale.
Company D was raised in Erath County, and its captain was John R. Waller, but the names of the other commissioned officers are unknown.
Company E was raised in Wise County ; Edward A. Blythe was its captain, but the names of the lieutenants are unknown.
Company F was from Travis County, and its commissioned officers were : captain, William Thompson ; first lieutenant, - Robertson ; second lieutenant, S. M. Cain ; third lieutenant, J. T. Gregg.
Company G was from Dallas County, and its commissioned officers were :
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captain, George W. Barton ; first lieutenant, Z. E. Coombes ; second lieutenant, W. H. F. Nichols ; third lieutenant, D. H. Russell.
Company H was from Hunt County, and its commissioned officers, so far as ascertained, were : captain, A. J. Marshall ; first lieutenant, A. Cameron ; second lieutenant, -- Spencer.
Company I was 'also from Hunt County, and the only commissioned officer ascertained was : captain, A. J. Bumpas.
Immediately upon its organization the regiment marched to Little. Rock, Arkansas, and reported to General Hindman. It was by him ordered to Southwest- ern Missouri, and reached Fayetteville, Arkansas, in July, 1862. It marched into Newton County, Missouri, in August, and was the first Confederate force to meet Colonels Shelby and Cockrell when they came out of Missouri with recruits for the Confederate army. It went through the campaign in Southwest Missouri and the Indian Territory in the fall of 1862, participating in the battles at Newtonia, Sep- tember 30, 1862, Prairie Grove, and Old Fort Wayne.
The regiment was dismounted in November, 1862, and was placed in a brigade with the Twentieth and Thirty-fourth Texas Cavalry Regiments, which was com- manded by Colonel W. R. Bradiute at the battle of Prairie Grove. A short time prior to the fall of Arkansas Post this brigade was ordered from Fort Smith, where it was then camped, to Little Rock ; but upon arriving at Clarksville, Arkansas, the order was countermanded, and the Fifteenth Texas Infantry Regiment was added to the brigade, and its colonel, J. W. Speight, was placed in command, and the Twenty-second Texas Cavalry, under Colonel James G. Stevens, was also added to it. The brigade as thus organized then returned to Fort Smith. Briga- dier-General William Steele says in his report that he found this brigade, com- manded by Colonel Speight, at Fort Smith, when he arrived there, January 8, 1863, badly disorganized, without discipline, and almost destitute of clothing and supplies. The weather was bitter cold, the men suffered great hardships, and many of them were unarmed. At Charleston, Arkansas, in January, 1862, a de- tachment of this brigade, which was marching in the rear without arms, was surprised and captured by a company in the Union army commanded by Martin D. Hart, of Hunt County, a brother of Hardin Hart, who was district judge of the Dallas dis- trict during reconstruction days. At the same time the brigade transportation was destroyed. Some six or eight days afterwards Captain Hart was captured by Colonel Phil Crump, was court-martialed and shot ; but the charges and specifica- tions against him are unknown.
In May, 1863, the brigade, with the exception of the Twentieth Texas Cavalry. which was left at Fort Smith, marched to Shreveport, Louisiana, and was by General E. Kirby Smith ordered towards the Mississippi River to guard that sec- tion against invasion. At the time of the fall of Vicksburg and Port Hudson this brigade was at Iberville, forty miles from New Orleans, and participated in the cam- paigns in that section of the country in the fill of 1863. In the winter of this year Brigadier-General C. J. Polignac, a distinguished Frenchman who had volunteered his services to the Confederate States, was placed in command of this brigade ; and under his leadership it took part in the Louisiana campaign of the spring of 1864, during General Banks's expedition up Red River. At the battles of Mansticki.
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Pleasant Hill, and Yellow Bayou the brigade acquitted itself with great credit, was distinguished for its gallant conduct, and achieved renown for itself as well as its brave commander, who led it in the thickest of the fight. During the time that General Polignac commanded the brigade its drill and discipline were very much improved and its general efficiency raised to a high degree. After the death of General A. Mouton, at Mansfield, May S, 1864, General Polignac was promoted to the command of the division, and Colonel James E. Harrison, of the Fifteenth Texas Infantry, was promoted to brigadier-general and assigned to the command of this brigade, and continued to command it to the close of the war.
Colonel Hawpe resigned while the regiment was at Fort Smith, and Major Frederick J. Malone was promoted to colonel, and Captain W. W. Peak, of Com- pany A, was promoted to major. First Lieutenant Thomas Flynn was promoted to captain of Company A. In Company B, Captain Anderson resigned in De- cember, 1862, and First Lieutenant Milton Jack was promoted to captain and W. M. Park to first lieutenant. In Company C, Captain John Duncan was severely wounded at the battle of Prairie Grove, September 30, 1862, and lost a leg, in consequence of which he resigned, and the other officers of the company were, pari passu, promoted to fill the vacancies caused thereby. In Company D, Captain John R. Waller resigned, and W. E. Carter was promoted to fill the vacancy. In Company F, Captain Thompson resigned, and First Lieutenant J. T. Gregg was promoted to captain. In Company G, Captain George W. Barton resigned, and First Lieutenant Z. E. Coombes was made captain. Lieutenant Nichols having died of wounds received at the battle of Mansfield, and Lieutenant Russell having resigned, E. D. Bennett was promoted to first lieutenant.
Thirty-second Cavalry Regiment. (Also called Fifteenth. )-Colonel, Julius A. Andrews ; lieutenant-colonel, James A. Weaver ; major, William E. Estes.
This regiment saw some service in Louisiana and Arkansas, when it was sent to Tennessee, where it saw hard service and acquitted itself with credit. It was there consolidated with the Fifteenth Texas Cavalry, and dismounted, forming a part of Ector's brigade.
Thirty-third Cavalry Regiment. (Formed from Fourteenth Cavalry Battalion. ) -Colonel, James Duff ; lieutenant-colonel, James R. Sweet ; major, John H. Rob- inson ; major, Santos Benavides ; major, John T. Brackinridge.
This regiment never left the State, but performed active and valuable services on the Rio Grande frontier from Laredo to the mouth of the river. Different com- panies of it had numerous encounters with marauding parties from Mexico, and several were at the battle of Palmito Ranch, May 13, 1865, the last engagement of the war.
Thirty-fourth (Alexander's) Texas Cavalry Regiment .-- The Thirty-fourth Texas Cavalry (dismounted ) was organized in the Indian Territory, February, 1862, and was composed of ten full companies of about one hundred men each, raised in North Texas the latter part of 1861 and the early part of 1862, and the officers of the regiment from first to last were as follows : Colonel, A. M. Alexander ; lieuten- ant-colonel ; colonel, John II. Caudle : lieutenant-colonel, George H. Wooten ; major ; lieutenant-colonel, William M. Bush : major ; lieutenant-colonel, John R. Russel ; major, M. W. Davenport ; major, Sevier Tackett ; major, Thomas J. Dove.
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Company A of the regiment was from Tarrant County, and its captains from first to last were M. W. Davenport, - Crowley, and --- Baldwin. Company B was from Grayson and Cook Counties, and its captains were H. K. Hodges and E. T. Morris. Company C was from Lamar County, and its captains were George A. Provine and Stephen D. Ross. Company D was from Red River County, and its captains were J. H. Caudle and - Bryant. Company E was from Fannin County, and its cap- tains were ---- Myrick and A. J. Duckworth. Company F was from Palo Pinto and Erath Coun- ties, and its captains were - Scanlan, Thomas Hunter, and William Metcalf. Company G was from Collin County, and its captains were J. O. Straughn, W. M. Bush, and W. N. Bush. Com- pany H was from Grayson County, and its cap- tains were - Wallace and Thomas J. Dove. Com- pany I was from Fannin, and its captains were --
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- - and J. H. Roderick. Company K was from Red River County, and its captains were - Flemming and Edward Titus.
The regiment served in the Indian Territory, Arkansas, Missouri, and Louisi- ana, and was engaged in the battles of Spring River and Newtonia, Missouri, as cavalry. The regiment was then dismounted and so remained during the war. The regiment fought the battle of Prairie Grove, Arkansas, under General Roan. It was then transferred to Louisiana with the brigade under the command of Col- onel Speight, where it was placed in camp of instruction and thoroughly drilled in infantry tactics by Colonel Will H. Trader. After which General C. J. Polignac was placed in command of the brigade until he was promoted to a major-generalship on the battle-field at Mansfield, when Colonel James Taylor was placed in command of the brigade and was killed the same evening. Colonel R. D. Stone was then placed in command of the brigade until he was killed at Yellow Bayou, more com- monly known in history as the battle of Norwood's Plantation. General W. H. King was then placed in command of the brigade, and commanded it until the close of the war, when the brigade was disbanded at Hempstead. Texas. The regiment was in the battles fought in Louisiana, to wit : Trinity. Harrisonburg, Vidalia, Mansfield, Pleasant Hill, Mansura, and Yellow Bayou, or Norwood's Plantation.
At the battle of Mansfield the regiment, under the command of Major W. M. Bush, was left to support the St. Mary's battery. After the Confederate line had advanced across the field to the edge of the timber, where they were held in check by a most destructive fire from the enemy, the Thirty-fourth Texas was ordered to their support, and with the regular Texas yell made one of the most successful charges ever made by any regiment, before which the enemy gave way, and the regiment captured the Nim's battery, broke the centre of the enemy's lines, and by a flank fire on that part of the Federal line engaged with Mouton's old brigade, caused them to surrender to that brigade and to the Thirty-Fourth Texas. Here
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the regiment threw away their old muskets and equipped themselves with the splendid Enfield rifles captured from the enemy. At Pleasant Hill. Polignac's brigade having suffered severely at Mansfield the day before, and the men being weary, were held in reserve until the engagement became general, with some waver- ing of the Confederate line, when the brigade was ordered to the front, and as they passed General Dick Taylor he encouraged the brigade by telling them they had won the day at Mansfield, and he looked to them on that occasion. The brigade, including the Thirty-fourth Texas, went gallantly to the front, sustaining heavy loss, and succeeded in routing the enemy in their front just at nightfall. In the Louisi- ana campaign there were twenty-six officers of the line belonging to the Thirty- fourth Texas engaged, of which the regiment lost in killed and wounded nineteen, and the non-commissioned officers and privates suffered in about the same proportion.
Thirty-fifth ( Brown's) Cavalry Regiment. (Formed from Twelfth Battalion. )-Colonel, Reuben R. Brown ; lieu . tenant-colonel, Samuel W. Perkins ; major, Lee C. Roun- tree.
This regiment was stationed in Texas until the spring of 1864, when it went to Louisiana to meet General Banks's Red River campaign. There it saw active service for the only time.
Thirty-fifth ( Likens's) Cavalry Regiment. (Formed from Likens's and Burns's Cavalry Battalions. ) -- Colonel, James B. Likens ; lieutenant-colonel, James Randolph Burns ; major, William A. Wortham.
Was stationed in Texas until the spring of 1864, when it went to Louisiana with other Texa, troops to meet General Banks's Red River expedition.
Thirty-sixth ( Woods's) Cavalry Regiment. (Also called Thirty-second Regiment. )-Colonel, Peter C. Woods ; lieutenant-colonel, Nat Benton ; major ; lieutenant- colon-1. William O. Hutchison ; major, Stokely M. Holmes.
COLONEL. P. C. Wort-
Took an active and conspicuous part in defeating Gen- eral Banks's Red River campaign in the spring of 1864, but was not engaged in any other active service.
Anderson's Cavalry Regiment. ( Formed from Border's and Fulcrod's Cav- alry Battalions. )-Colonel, Thomas Scott Anderson ; lieutenant-colonel, John P. Border; major, Jules A. Randle.
Border's Cavalry Regiment .- Colonel, John P. Border ; lieutenant-colonel, Philip Fulcrod ; major, Daniel Egbert.
Bourland's Cavalry Regiment. ( Frontier Regiment. )-Colonel, James Bour- land : lieutenant-colonel, John R. Diamond ; major, Charles L. Roff.
Bradford Cavalry Regiment .- Colonel, Charles M. Bradford ; lieutenant-col. ond !. Walter L. Mann ; major, Thomas R. Hoxey.
Barns's Cavalry Battalion. ( Merged into Likens's Thirty-fifth Cavalry. ) -- Lieutenant-colonel, James R. Burns.
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Daly's Cavalry Battalion .- Lieutenant-colonel, Andrew Daly ; major, Samuel G. Ragsdale.
Was in active service in Louisiana,
De Bray's Battalion Texas Cavalry. (Merged into Twenty-sixth Cavalry. )- Lieutenant-colonel, Xavier Blanchard de Bray ; major, Samuel Boyer Davis ; major, John J. Myers.
COLONEL JOHN P. BORDER.
Fulcrod's Cadets, Battalion Cavalry. (Merged into Anderson's Cavalry Regiment. )-Lieutenant- colonel, Philip Fulcrod.
Gano's Cavalry Battalion. (Merged into Seventh Kentucky Cavalry, September, 1862. )- Lieutenant-colonel, Richard M. Gano.
Giddings's Cavalry Battalion .- Lieutenant- colonel, George H. Giddings.
Was in active service along the Rio Grande, having numerous skirmishes with marauding par- ties from Mexico, and was at the last battle of the war at Palmito Ranch, May 13, 1865.
Herbert' s Battalion, Arizona Brigade .- Lieu- tenant-colonel, P. T. Herbert ; major, George M. Frazer.
Was in New Mexico and Arizona and the Louisiana campaign of 1864.
Mann's Cavalry Regiment .- Colonel, Walter L. Mann ; lieutenant-colonel, William F. Upton ; major, John E. Oliver.
Morgan's Cavalry Battalion .- Major, C. L. Morgan.
Served as independent scouts in Missouri and Arkansas.
Mullen's Cavalry Battalion, Arizona Brigade. (Merged into Second Regi- ment. )-Lieutenant-colonel, John W. Mullen.
Ragsdale's Cavalry Battalion .- Major, Samuel G. Ragsdale.
Was in active service in Louisiana.
Saufley's Scouting Battalion .- Major, W. P. Saufley.
Terrell's Cavalry Regiment. (Also called Thirty-fourth. )-Colonel, Alex- ander W. Terrell ; lieutenant-colonel, John C. Robertson ; major, Hiram S. Mor- gan ; major, George W. Owens.
Was actively engaged in the Louisiana campaign of 1864.
Terry's Cavalry Regiment .- Colonel, D. S Terry ; lieutenant-colonel, S. H. Brooks ; major, J. M. Evans.
Wells's Cavalry Battalion. (Merged into Wells's Cavalry Regiment. )-Lieu- tenant-colonel, John W. Wells.
Wells's Cavalry Regiment. (Also called Thirty-fourth. )-Colonel, John W. Wells ; lieutenant-colonel, Chaplin Good ; major, L. E. Gillette.
Waul's Legion .- This command was organized at Brenham, Texas, in the summer of 1862, with a battalion of infantry, a battalion of cavalry, and a battery of light artillery. It was recruited principally from Nichols's six-months' regiment and J. E. Kirby's battalion, whose term of enlistment had just expired ; but many new recruits also joined. The fichl officers at the organization were : colonel,
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Thomas N. Waul ; lieutenant-colonel of infantry, B. Timmons ; lieutenant-colonel of cavalry, Leonidas Willis ; major of infantry, Allen Cameron ; captain of artillery, William Edgar. The staff consisted of : quartermaster, H. B. Andrews ; ordnance officer, - Broadnax ; surgeon, Dr. Edward Randall ; adjutant, Lieutenant Oliver Steele.
The command consisted of twelve companies of infantry, six of cavalry, and one battery of light artillery. The names of all the commanders of companies can- not be ascertained, but the following have been furnished by Lieutenant-Colonel Oliver Steele as a partial list : captains of infantry, L. D. Bradley, C. S. Bolling, James Wrigley, Otto Nathusius, - Voigt, Samuel Carter, H. Wickeland, and Hicks. Captains of cavalry, - Harwood is the only one remembered.
The battery of artillery, under Captain Edgar, left the camp of organization first, marched to Arkansas, and did good service in that State and Louisiana, until its capture with the Second Louisiana Cavalry while on picket duty, a few days prior to the battles of Mansfield and Pleasant Hill. The cavalry battalion left soon afterwards and proceeded to Mississippi.
On August 18, 1862, the twelve companies of infantry took up the line of march for Clarksville, Texas ; but while en route the direction was changed for Monroe, Louisiana, with the intention of joining General Van Dorn in Mississippi. The command crossed the Mississippi River at Vicksburg, October 1, 1862, and was joined by the cavalry battalion under Lieutenant-Colonel Willis. Soon after this the infantry was moved to Holly Springs, where it arrived a few days after the battle of Corinth ; and the cavalry battalion was detached from it and never served with it afterwards, but formed a part of Brigadier-General J. R. Chalmers's cavalry brigade. At Holly Springs the infantry was reorganized by being divided into two battalions of six companies each, with B. Timmons lieutenant-colonel and Allen Cameron major of the first, and James Wrigley lieutenant-colonel and Oliver Steele major of the second.
During the latter part of the year 1862 and the early part of the year 1863 the legion served as a separate brigade, under command of Colonel Waul, in Lovell's division. In February, 1863, it was sent to Fort Pemberton, at the head of the Yazoo River, where it performed gallant service in the repulse of General Wash- burn's expedition down the Tallahatchee River, in the ill-starred attempt to take Vicksburg in the rear. After General Washburn's repulse, the legion, except Captain Voigt's company, was sent to Vicksburg. That company was left to guard Fort Pemberton, and, when en route to join the legion after the investment of Vicksburg, was captured at Yazoo City and sent to the North to prison. The other eleven companies took a prominent and gallant part in the defence of the city of Vicksburg. It occupied a position in reserve in the rear of Brigadier-General Stephen D. Lee's brigade, at the point where the railroad from Vicksburg to Jack- son runs through the fortifications. When the grand assault was made on May 22, 1863, a lodgement was made by about sixty of the enemy in the ditch around the fort on the railroad, and the Twentieth Alabama Regiment was driven from it. Upon the call for volunteers from Waul's Legion to retake the fort, Captain L. D. Bradley and Lieutenant James Ilogue responded with their companies, and, led by Major Oliver Steele, the fort was recaptured in gallant style, taking sixty prisoners
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and capturing two stands of colors. Major-General Carter L. Stevenson, com- manding the division, says in his report : "A more gallant feat than this has not illustrated our annals during the war. The preparations were quickly and quietly made, but the enemy secmed at once to divine our purpose, and opened upon the angle a terrific fire of shot, and shell, and musketry. Undaunted, this little band, its chivalrous commander at its head, rushed upon the work, and in less time than it requires to describe it it and the flags were in our possession. Preparations were then quickly made for the use of hand-grenades, when the enemy in the ditch, being informed of our purpose, immediately surrendered."
After the long and tedious defence, during which many gallant feats were per- formed and many brave men killed, among them Major Allen Cameron, the legion surrendered with the balance of the Confederate army, were paroled, and returned to Texas. After the exchange the legion reassembled at Houston ; and Colonel Waul having been promoted to brigadier-general, Lieutenant-Colonel Timmons was pro- moted to colonel, Major Oliver Steele was promoted to lieutenant-colonel, and Major Allen Cameron having been killed at the siege of Vicksburg, Captain Otto Nathusius was promoted to major. After its reorganization the legion served to the end of the war, at Galveston and other points on the Texas coast.
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