List of Confederate units from Texas in the American Civil War


This is a list of Texas American Civil War Confederate Units. The Texas Union Army units are listed separately.

[Confederate States Army]

Major Formations

Infantry

Cavalry

Brigades

  • Texas Cavalry Brigade Whitfield's Brigade; Ross' Brigade
Organized OCTOBER 23, 1862 in Mississippi with 3rd, 6th, 9th, and 27th Texas Cavalry Regiments. Temporary commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Griffith while Colonel Whitfield and Lieutenant Colonel Ross were on convalescence leave.

Regiments

  • 1st Mounted Riflemen
State service, March 4, 1861 - mid-April 1861.
Confederate service, mid-April 1861 - mid-April 1862 as the First Regiment, Texas Mounted Riflemen, also known as the First Texas Mounted Rifles. Some of the men returned to frontier service, but most enlisted in the Eighth Texas Cavalry Battalion, which later became part of the First Texas Cavalry Regiment.
The Frontier Regiment was transferred to Confederate service on March 1, 1864 under this designation.

Battalions

  • 1st Cavalry Battalion
  • 3rd Cavalry Battalion
  • 4th Cavalry Battalion
  • 6th Cavalry Battalion
  • 7th Cavalry Battalion
  • 8th Cavalry Battalion
Formed in mid-April 1862, from men mustered out of 1st Mounted Riflemen; later part of the 1st Cavalry regiment.
  • 12th Cavalry Battalion
  • 13th Cavalry Battalion
  • 14th Cavalry Battalion
  • Border's Cavalry Regiment of Cadets
  • Morgan's Texas Cavalry Battalion

Partisan Rangers

Organized in June 1862 by Walter P. Lane; disbanded after the surrender of the Trans-Mississippi Department on May 26, 1865.
Began to be organized in October 1862, by B. Warren Stone, Jr.; operational in March 1863. Disbanded after the surrender of the Trans-Mississippi Department on May 26, 1865.
  • 5th Cavalry
Organized February 6, 1863, through the merger of 10th Cavalry Battalion with two independent companies and Randolph's First Battalion Texas Partisan Rangers. Disbanded on May 15, 1865.
  • 30th Cavalry
  • 33rd Cavalry
  • 34th Cavalry
  • 9th Cavalry Battalion
  • 10th Cavalry Battalion
Organized October 23, 1862 by Leonidas M. Martin to act as "Police Guards" in Cooke County. Merged with other units to form the Fifth Texas Partisan Rangers, February 6, 1863.

Artillery

Light Artillery

Heavy Artillery

  • 1st Heavy Artillery

State Troops

Infantry

  • 1st State Troops
  • 1st State Troops, Infantry
  • 2nd State Troops, Infantry
  • 3rd State Troops, Infantry
  • 4th Infantry, State Troops
  • 5th Infantry, State Troops
  • 1st Battalion, State Troops, Infantry
  • 20th Battalion, State Troops
  • 24th Battalion, Infantry, State Troops
  • 30th State Troops
  • Arnold's Company, Infantry Riflemen, Militia
  • Atkins's Company, State Troops
  • Edgar's Company, State Troops
  • Gould's Company, State Troops
  • Hampton's Company, State Troops
  • Teel's Company, State Troops

Cavalry

  • 1st Cavalry, State Troops
  • 2nd Cavalry, State Troops
  • 3rd Cavalry, State Troops
  • 4th Cavalry, State Troops
  • 1st Battalion, Cavalry, State Troops
  • 2nd Battalion, Cavalry, State Troops
  • 3rd Battalion, Cavalry, State Troops
  • Doughty's Company, Cavalry, State Troops
  • Graham's Company, Mounted Coast Guards, State Troops
  • Terry's Mounted Company

Artillery

  • Good's Company, State Troops, Artillery

Frontier

Organized March 1, 1864, as a replacement for the Frontier Regiment, transferred to Confederate service. The Frontier Organization contained all men liable for military service living in the 59 frontier counties. They were formed into three districts of together 4,000 men. The organization was in operation several months after the end of the war.

Misc

  • Waul's Legion
  • Granbury's Consolidated Brigade
  • 3rd Battalion, Infantry and Cavalry
  • 6th and 15th Volunteers, Cavalry and Infantry
  • 11th Battalion
  • 13th Volunteers
  • Bean's Battalion, Reserve Corps
  • Brush Battalion
  • Panna Maria Grays, Militia
  • Greer's Rocket Battery
  • Benton's Company, Volunteers
  • Duke's Company, Volunteers
  • Killough's Company, Home Guards
  • McMinn's Company
  • McNeel's Company, Local Defense Troops
  • Merriman's Company, Local Defense Troops
  • Nolan's Mounted Company
  • Pearson's Company, Partisan Rangers
  • Perry's Company, Local Defense Troops
  • Rainey's Company, Volunteers
  • Simms' Company, Home Guards
  • Teague's Company, Volunteers
  • Thomas' Company, Partisan Rangers
  • Trevenio's Squad, Partisan Mounted Volunteers
  • Brazoria County Minutemen
  • Conscripts, Texas
  • Lavaca County Minutemen
  • Miscellaneous, Texas

Cavalry

  • Arizona Brigade
  • * 1st Regiment, Arizona Brigade
  • * 2nd Regiment, Arizona Brigade
  • * 3rd Regiment, Arizona Brigade
  • * 4th Regiment, Arizona Brigade
  • Border's Battalion, Cavalry
  • Frontier Battalion, Cavalry
  • Gidding's Battalion, Cavalry
  • Good's Battalion, Cavalry
  • Mann's Battalion, Cavalry
  • Ragsdale's Battalion, Cavalry
  • Saufley's Scouting Battalion, Cavalry
A temporary field organization under William Saufley; formed in January 1864, for the defense of Galveston. Disbanded in March 1864; the companies returning to duty with their regiments.
  • Wells' Battalion, Cavalry
  • Border's Cavalry
  • Bourland's Cavalry
  • Chisum's Cavalry,
  • Mann's Cavalry
  • Martin's Cavalry
  • Frontier Regiment
Mustered into service for three years in February 1863 as a replacement for the disbanded Frontier Regiment. The new regiment was officially called the Mounted Regiment of Texas State Troops, later Mounted Regiment, Texas State Troops. The regiment was transferred to Confederate service on March 1, 1864 as the 46th Texas Cavalry.
  • Frontier Regiment
Authorized by the Legislature on December 21, 1861 as a replacement for 1st Mounted Riflemen in frontier defense. Mustered into State service for one year in March and April 1862. Disbanded at the end of January 1863, by order of Governor Lubbock. It was replaced by a reorganized Frontier Regiment.
  • Morgan's Cavalry
  • Waller's Cavalry
  • Bone's Company, Cavalry
  • San Elizario Spy Company
  • Crump's Cavalry
  • Durant's Company, Cavalry
  • Lilley's Company, Cavalry
  • McDowell's Company, Cavalry
  • Ragsdale's Company, Cavalry
  • Randolph's, W. H. Company, Cavalry
  • Sutton's Company, Cavalry
  • Trevenio's, L. Company, Cavalry
  • Upton's Company, Cavalry
  • Gano's Squadron, Cavalry
  • Steele's Command, Cavalry
  • Mounted Mountain Guards

Infantry

  • Chambers' Battalion, Reserve Corps, Infantry
  • Griffin's Battalion, Infantry
  • Houston Battalion, Infantry
  • Cameron's, Watts Company, Infantry
  • Carter's Company, Infantry
  • Cotton's Company, Infantry
  • Cunningham's Company, Infantry
  • Currie's Company, Infantry
  • Maxey's Company, Light Infantry and Riflemen
  • Rutherford's Company, Infantry
  • Townsend's Company, Infantry
  • Whaley's Company, Infantry
  • Yarbrough's Company, Infantry
  • Timmons' Infantry

Artillery

  • Dege's Battalion, Light Artillery
  • Douglas's Company, Artillery
  • Hughes's Company, Light Artillery
  • Jones's Company, Light Artillery
  • van Buren's Company, Light Artillery