3rd Regiment, Texas Cavalry (South Kansas-Texas Mounted Volunteers)
HISTORICAL NOTES:
FIELD OFFICERS:
Elkanah. B. Greer
Hinchie P. Mabry
Giles S. Boggess
Walter P. Lane
J. J. A. Barker
George W. Chilton
Absalom B. Stone
M. D. Ector, Adj
H. Harris Q.M.
J. R. Armstrong
ASSIGNMENTS:
July 1861 Indian Territory.
July - August 1861 McCulloch's Brigade.
August - September 1861 Indian Territory.
September 1861 - January 1862 McCulloch's Division, Department #2.
January 1862 McIntosh's Brigade, McCulloch's Division, Department #2.
January - March 1862 McIntosh's Brigade, McCulloch's Division, Trans - Mississippi District, Department #2.
March - April 1862 Greer's Cavalry Brigade, Price's Division, Trans - Mississippi District, Department #2.
April 1862 Greer's Cavalry Brigade, Army of the West, Department #2.
April - July 1862 Hebert's Brigade, Price's - Little's Division, Army of the West, Department #2.
September - October 1862 Hebert's Brigade, Little's - Hebert's - Green's Division, Price's Corps, Army of West Tennessee, Department #2.
October - December 1862 Griffith's - Whitfield's Cavalry Brigade, Maury's Division, Price's Corps, Army of West Tennessee, Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana.
January - February 1863 Whitfield's Brigade, 2nd Division, Van Dom's Cavalry Corps, Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana.
February 1863 Whitfield's Brigade, Jackson's Division, Van Dom's Cavalry Corps, Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana.
February - May 1863 Whitfield's Brigade, Jackson's Division, Van Dom's Cavalry Corps, Army of Tennessee.
June - July 1863 Whitfield's Brigade, Jackson's Cavalry Division, Department of the West.
July - August 1863 Whitfield's Brigade, Jackson's Cavalry Division, Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana.
August 1863 - January 1864 Whitfield's - Ross' Brigade, Jackson's Division, Lee's Cavalry Corps, Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana.
January - May 1864 Ross' Brigade, Jackson's Division, Lee's Cavalry Corps, Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and East Louisiana.
May - July 1864 Ross' Brigade, Jackson's Cavalry Division, Army of Mississippi.
July 1864 - February 1865 Ross' Brigade, Jackson's Cavalry Division, Army of Tennessee.
February - May 1865 Ross' Brigade, Jackson's Division, Forrest's Cavalry Corps, Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and East Louisiana.
Source: Stewart Sifakis, Compendium of the Confederate Armies - Texas, (New York: Facts on File, Inc., 1995), p. 47 - 48.
BATTLES:
• Chustenahlah, Indian Territory (December 26,1861)
• Pea Ridge, Arkansas (March 7-8, 1862)
• Campaign and evacuation at Corinth Mississippi (April-June 1862)
• Iuka, Mississippi (September 19, 1862)
• Corinth, Mississippi (October 3-4 1862)
• Oakland, Mississippi (skirmish) (December 3,1862)
• Holly Springs , Mississippi (raid) December 20, 1862)
• Davis Mills, Tennessee (December 21, 1862)
• Middleburg, Tennessee (December 24, 1862)
• Thompson's Station, Tennessee (March 5,1863)
• Vicksburg Campaign (May-July 1863)
• Jackson Siege and evacuation (July 1863)
• Meridian Mississippi Campaign (February-March 1864)
• Snyder's Bluff, Mississippi (March 30, 1864)
• Marion county Alabama (Antiunionist campaign) (April 1864)
• Atlanta Campaign and Siege (May-September 1864)
• Flat shoals, Georgia (July 28, 1864)
• Brown's Mill, Georgia(July 29, 1864)
• Newman, Georgia (30, 1864)
• Franklin-Nashville Tennessee campaign ( October-December 1864)
ROSTERS:
Company B: Captain Robert H. Cumby, Rusk County
Company C: Captain Francis M. Taylor, Cherokee County
Company D: Captain Stephen M. Hale, Hunt & Fannin Counties
Company E: Captain Daniel M. Short, San Augustine & Shelby Counties
Company F: Captain Isham Chism, Kauffman & Dallas Counties
Company G: Captain Hinche P. Mabry, Jefferson County
Company H: Captain Jonathan L. Russell, Upshur County
Company I: Captain John Author Bryan, Cass County
Company K: Captain David Y Gains, Smith County
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