![]() ![]() However, the regiment successfully deployed out of the state, although, to the troopers’ sorrow, it had to leave all its horses behind. Twiggs, had surrendered most of the Union forces in Texas to Confederate authorities. ![]() Meanwhile, the department commander, Brevet MG David E. With the outbreak of the Civil War in April 1861, Army authorities quickly realized that regulars would be needed in the East to form a professionally trained reserve force and train the multitudes of state volunteer troops that were being raised to suppress the rebellion. It provides a study of the unit’s demographics and relates a remarkable human-interest story of a typical regular cavalry company in the second year of the Civil War. The second part is based on an extensive study of the relevant muster rolls, service and pension records at the National Archives of every officer and enlisted man assigned to the company in June 1862. Part I follows the company in its travels to and around the Eastern Theater, and its later participation at the battle of Gaines’ Mill June 27, 1862, during the Peninsula Campaign. The Army built Camp Cooper, a dreary frontier post named after the adjutant general, on the Clear Fork of the Brazos River on the Comanche Reserve in West Texas. Company H, stationed before the war at Camp Cooper, 275 miles west of San Antonio, was representative of the other companies of the regiment. The companies guarded the frontier, escorted streams of immigrants crossing the plains and fought Indians. 27, 1863.īefore the Civil War, the 10 companies of the regiment were spread across Texas in small far-flung garrisons. Thomas, who, although he held a commission as a major general of volunteers during the war, retained the substantive Regular Army position of colonel of the regiment until Oct. He was replaced May 3, 1861, by George H. Cavalry.ĬOL Albert Sidney Johnson had been designated as the first regimental commander, an appointment he relinquished when he resigned to accept a commission as a general officer in the new Confederate Army. 3, 1861, in which all six mounted regiments were redesignated, resulting in the change of the unit’s name to 5th U.S. It retained that title until the War Department issued General Order No. Cavalry had been organized at Newport Barracks, Louisville, KY, following an act of Congress March 3, 1855. ![]()
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