Texas 36th Cavalry Regiment

Texas 36th Cavalry Regiment

Source: Sifakis, Stewart. Compendium of the Confederate Armies: Texas; Facts on File, Inc.; New York, NY, 1995, p. 93.

Also Known As: 32nd Cavalry Regiment

Organization: Organized in the summer of 1862. Surrendered by General E.K. Smith, commanding Trans-Mississippi Department, on May 26, 1865.

First Commander: Peter C. Woods (Colonel)

Field Officers:

Nataniel Benton (Lieutenant Colonel)

Stokely M. Holmes (Major)

William O. Hutchinson (Major, Lieutenant Colonel)

Assignments:

Sub-district of the Rio Grande, District of Texas, Trans-Mississippi Department (August - December 1862)

District of Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona, Trans-Mississippi Department (December 1862 - January 1863)

Western Sub-district, District of Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona, Trans-Mississippi Department (January - March 1864)

Bee's Brigade, Major's-Green's Cavalry Division, DIstrict of West Louisiana, Trans-Mississippi Department (March - May 1864)

6th (Debray's) Texas Cavalry Brigade, 2nd (Maxey's) Texas Cavalry Division, 1st Corps, Trans-Mississippi Department (September 1864 - March 1865)

Debray's Brigade, Bee's Division, Wharton's Cavalry Corps, Trans- Mississippi Department (March - May 1865)

Battles:

Red River Campaign (March - May 1864)

Mansfield (April 8, 1864)

Pleasant Hill (April 9, 1864)