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Muster In: August 18611
Muster Out: April 9, 18652
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First Offensive Order of Battle: Gregg’s Brigade | Field’s Division | First Corps | Army of Northern Virginia | Confederate Army3
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Dyer’s/Sifakis’ Compendium Info:
Siege of Petersburg Battles5:
- Petersburg Siege (June 1864-April 1865)
- New Market Heights (September 29, 1864)
- Chaffin’s Farm (September 29, 1864)
- Fort Gilmer (September 29-30, 1864)
- Williamsburg Road (October 27, 1864)
- Appomattox Court House (April 9, 1865)
Bibliography:
- 1st TX: First Texas Regiment
- 1st TX: From Corsicana to Appomattox: The Story of the Corsicana Invincibles and the Navarro Rifles
- 1st TX: History of Captain B.F. Benton's Company, Hood's Texas Brigade, 1861-1865
- 1st TX: History of Company M: First Texas Volunteer Infantry
- 1st TX: The Marshall Guards; Harrison County’s Contribution to Hood’s Texas Brigade
- 1st TX: “A Yellow Rose in Old Dominion: The Civil War Reminiscences of Orlando T. Hanks.” (MA Thesis)
- 1st TX: ”Antebellum Social Characteristics of the Officers and Men in the First Texas Infantry, Confederate States Army.” (MA Thesis)
Siege of Petersburg Documents Which Mention This Unit:
- 1st Texas Infantry
- 1st TX: First Texas Regiment
- 1st TX: From Corsicana to Appomattox: The Story of the Corsicana Invincibles and the Navarro Rifles
- 1st TX: History of Captain B.F. Benton's Company, Hood's Texas Brigade, 1861-1865
- 1st TX: History of Company M: First Texas Volunteer Infantry
- 1st TX: The Marshall Guards; Harrison County’s Contribution to Hood’s Texas Brigade
- 1st TX: “A Yellow Rose in Old Dominion: The Civil War Reminiscences of Orlando T. Hanks.” (MA Thesis)
- 1st TX: ”Antebellum Social Characteristics of the Officers and Men in the First Texas Infantry, Confederate States Army.” (MA Thesis)
Sources:
- Compendium of the Confederate Armies: Texas by Stewart Sifakis, pages 106-108 ↩
- Compendium of the Confederate Armies: Texas by Stewart Sifakis, pages 106-108 ↩
- The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 110 ↩
- The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 110 ↩
- Compendium of the Confederate Armies: Texas by Stewart Sifakis, pages 106-108 ↩