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26th Texas Cavalry, Texas Army: Xavier Debray: 0 Loss 1863 Second Battle of Galveston: Texas Army: John B. Magruder: 26 KIA, 117 WIA Victory 1863 Second Battle of Sabine Pass: Davis Guards, 1st Artillery Regiment, Texas Army: Richard W. Dowling: 0: Victory 1863 Battle of Brownsville: 33rd Texas Cavalry, Texas Army: Hamilton P. Bee
t. e. The San Elizario Salt War, also known as the Salinero Revolt or the El Paso Salt War, was an extended and complex range war of the mid-19th century that revolved around the ownership and control of immense salt lakes at the base of the Guadalupe Mountains in West Texas. What began in 1866 as a political and legal struggle among Anglo ...
The Texas–Indian wars were a series of conflicts between settlers in Texas and the Southern Plains Indians during the 19th-century. Conflict between the Plains Indians and the Spanish began before other European and Anglo-American settlers were encouraged—first by Spain and then by the newly Independent Mexican government—to colonize Texas in order to provide a protective-settlement ...
the 2nd Texas Cavalry Battalion had one killed, seven wounded, and 22 captured, totaling four killed, 12 wounded, and 101 captured. Private John J. Williams of the 34th Indiana was the last fatality during the Battle at Palmito Ranch, likely making him the final combat death of the entire war. Aftermath
The Third Texas Cavalry in the Civil War (University of Oklahoma Press, 2000) Howell, Kenneth Wayne (2009). The Seventh Star of the Confederacy: Texas During the Civil War. University of North Texas Press. ISBN 9781574412598. Horton, Louise (2010) [1974]. Samuel Bell Maxey: A Biography. University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-0-2927-8872-5.
Texas Comanche wars 1836 – 1875. The Comanche Wars were a series of armed conflicts fought between Comanche peoples and Spanish, Mexican, and American militaries and civilians in the United States and Mexico from as early as 1706 until at least the mid-1870s. The Comanche were the Native American inhabitants of a large area known as ...
One company of volunteers under Captain Adrian I. Vidal defected, killing a private and wounding another from the 33rd Texas. Banks landed the expedition at the mouth of the Rio Grande on November 2, 1863. Bee dispatched two companies of his cavalry to observe and report on the Union landing.
The 31st Texas Cavalry Regiment was a unit of mounted volunteers from Texas that fought in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. Trevezant C. Hawpe organized the regiment in early 1862 with recruits mostly from Dallas County, Texas, and surroundings. In June 1862, it marched to Arkansas where it joined a brigade led by ...