HISTORICAL NOTES:
The 3rd Cavalry Regiment Arizona Brigade was organized with 796 men during the spring of 1862 using the 3rd (Madison's) Texas Cavalry Battalion, Arizona Brigade as its nucleus. It was assigned to Major's and Lane's Brigade, Trans-Mississippi Department, and participated in various conflicts in Louisiana. The regiment disbanded prior to the surrender in June 1865.
OFFICERS:
Joseph Phillips, colonel
George T. Madison, lieutenant colonel
Alonzo Ridley, major
William D. Kirk, captain and assistant quartermaster
Robert G. Turner, captain and assistant commissary of subsistence
Thomas W. English, lieutenant and adjutant
William R. Robinson, surgeon
Andrew J. Hay, assistant surgeon. ASSIGNMENTS:
Col. James Major's Second Texas Cavalry Brigade
BATTLES:
Plaquemine
Stirling’s Plantation
Bayou Bourbeau
Galveston
Red River Campaign
Mansfield
Pleasant Hill
Monett’s Ferry
Yellow Bayou COMPANIES:
Madison's Battalion became part of the Third Texas Cavalry, Arizona Brigade. Three additional companies known as Coast Guards because they had served in defense of the Galveston area for over a year also joined the Third. Hendricks's company from Denton, Woods's company from Robertson and Milam counties, and the Arizona Scouts completed the regiment.
Company A: Capt. H.S. Bowles, Co A
Company B: Capt, George W. Durant (also Capt in Maxey's 9th Inf, Co K); Capt. McGee, Co B (d-at Ft Delaware, 3 men named Magee in Co B named F., F.M., and P.T. Magee); Capt. James Martin
Company D, of Burnet Co TX: Capt. Reuben W. McKee plus Lt Valentine Fry; Lt. Wm. R. Lilley (all from Burnet Co TX)
Company E: Capt. Henry H. Hall (also Pvt in Looscan's 31st Cav, Co A); Capt. John W. Hendricks
Company F: Capt. Henry Kennedy (also Saufley's 1st Partisan Rangers)
Company G: Capt. Phleming D. Turner (also Pvt in Co C, Ragsdale's TX Cav, 4th Ariz Brig). BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Crute, Joseph Units of the Confederate States Army Midlothian, VA: Derwent Books, 1987. Concise summary of the units service.
Hatch, Orin M.Confederate Military History Vol. 7 - Texas Davenport, IA Eastern Digital Resources. First Printed 1899. Atlanta. E484C65.1987v12. Contains numerous, scattered references to Texas units.
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