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2nd Regiment, Texas Rangers


HISTORICAL NOTES: B. Warren Stone began organizing the 2nd Regiment, Texas Rangers at Dallas in October 1862 with the permission of Confederate States Secretary of War George W. Randolph. In March 1863, the regiment marched to Houston and the following month it traveled to Louisiana as part of James Patrick Major's brigade. Soon after, Stone was replaced as colonel by Isham Chisum. The regiment fought at Second Donaldsonville, Kock's Plantation, Sterling's Plantation, and Bayou Bourbeux. In 1863–1864, the unit wintered near Galveston. In 1864, the 2nd Partisan Rangers were in action at Mansfield, Pleasant Hill, Monett's Ferry, and Yellow Bayou during the Red River Campaign. The partisan rangers went back to Texas in December 1864 and usually camped at Houston until the surrender of the Trans-Mississippi Department on 26 May 1865.

The Texas 34th Cavalry Regiment was also referred to as the 2nd Partisan Rangers, but that unit had different officers and was evidently another unit. OFFICERS:
  • Stone, Barton Warren - Colonel
  • Chisum, Isham - Colonel
  • Miller, Crill - Lieut. Colonel
  • Throckmorton, James - Major, later governor of Texas.
    • ASSIGNMENTS:
  • assigned along with the Third Texas Cavalry, Arizona Brigade, to James Major's Second Texas Cavalry Brigade
    • BATTLES:
  • Fort Butler
  • Stirling's Plantation
  • Carrion Crow Bayou
  • Bayou Bourbeau.
  • Red River Campaign
  • Mansfield
  • Pleasant Hill
  • Monett's Ferry
  • Yellow Bayou.
    • ROSTERS: The roster of this regiment contains the name of 1 man. Companies were formed in Collin, Dallas, Hopkins, Johnson, Kaufman and Wood counties.

  • Squires, Russell W.
    • SOURCE: https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/second-texas-partisan-rangers Bibliography for Research:




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