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Texas
Remembers her sons by whose valor and
devotion the federal enemy was defeated
at Mansfield, April 8, 1864 and
thereafter in several bloody
engagements driven from the Red River
valley. Thus was Texas saved from the
physical ruin wrought by the war in
every other southern state. Texas
commands in the Red River Campaign
of 1864 were:
12th ("8th"),18th & 22nd Tex. Inf.; 13th
Tex. Cav., Dismt; Haldeman's Tex. Btry.
(Brig Gen. Thomas N. Wall's Brigade,
Walker's Division)
11th & 14th Tex. Inf.; 6th (Gould's) Tex.
Cav. Bn., Dismtd; 28th Texas Cav, Dismtd;
Daniel's Texas Btry.
(Brig. Gen. Horace Randal's Brigade,
Walker's Division)
3rd, 16th, 17th & 19th Tex. Inf; 16th Tex.
Cav, Dismted; Edgar's Tex. Btry
(Brig. Gen. William R. Scurry's Brigade,
Walker's
Division)
15th Tex. Inf.; 17th Tex. Cosldtd. Cav,
Dismtd, 27nd, 31st & 34th Tex. Cav, Dismtd,
(Brig Gen. Camille J. Polignac's Brigade,
Mouton's Division)
(See Other Side)
Rear
23rd + 26th & 36th (Woods)+ Tex. Cav.
(Brig. Gen. Xavier B. Debray's Brigade,
Bee's Division, Green's Cav. Corps)
1st, 25th (Liken's) & Terrell's Tex. Cav.
(Col. Augustus C. Buchel's Brigade,
Bee's Division, Green's Cav. Corps)
1st & 2nd Tex. Regts. Partisan Rangers;
2nd & 3rd Cav. Regts, Arizona Brig
(Col. Walter P. Lane's Brigade,
Major's Division, Green's Cav. Corps)
4th, 5th & 7th Tex Cav.; 13th (Waller's)
Tex Cav. Bn.
(Brig. Gen' Arthur P. Backry's Brigade,
Major's Division, Green's Cav. Corps)
12th + 19th + 21st + Tex Cav; Morgan's Tex.
Cav. Bn.+
(Col. William H. Parson's Brigade,
Steele's Division, Green's Cav.
Corps)
Moseley's, Nettles'(Valverde), McMahan's
& Gibson's Tex. Btrys.+
(Green's Cav. Corps)
+ Not at Battle of Mansfield
A memorial to Texans
who served the Confederacy
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