Texas 3rd Infantry Regiment
Source: Sifakis, Stewart. Compendium of the Confederate Armies: Texas; Facts on File, Inc.; New York, NY, 1995, pp. 110-111.
Organization: Organized in the summer of 1861. Surrendered by General E.K. Smith, commanding Trans-Mississippi Department, on May 26, 1865.
First Commander: Philip N. Luckett (Colonel)
Field Officers:
Augustus Buchel (Lieutenant Colonel)
Edward F. Gray (Major, Lieutenant Colonel)
John F. Kampmann (Major)
Assignments:
Department of Texas (September 1861 - February 1862)
Eastern District of Texas, Department of Texas (February - May 1862)
Eastern District of Texas, Trans-Mississippi Department (May - August 1862)
District of Texas, Trans-Mississippi Department (August - December 1862)
District of Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona, Trans-Mississippi Department (December 1862 - January 1863)
Eastern Sub-district, District of Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona, Trans-Mississippi Department (January - March 1863)
Luckett's Brigade, Scurry's Division [or Eastern Sub-district], District of Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona, Trans-Mississippi Department (June 1863)
Eastern Sub-district, District of Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona, Trans-Mississippi Department (June - November 1863)
Luckett's Brigade, Eastern Sub-district, District of Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona, Trans-Mississippi Department (November - December 1863)
Luckett's Brigade, Slaughter's Division [or Eastern Sub-district], District of Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona, Trans-Mississippi Department (December 1863 - March 1864)
Scurry's Brigade, Walker's Division, District of West Louisiana, Trans-Mississippi Department (March - April 1864)
Scurry's Brigade, Walker's Division, District of Arkansas, Trans-Mississippi Department (April - May 1864)
Scurry's-Waterhouse's Brigade, Walker's Division, District of West Louisiana, Trans-Mississippi Department (May - September1864)
2nd (Waterhouse's) Texas Brigade, 1st (Forney's) Texas Division, 1st Corps, Trans-Mississippi Department (September 1864 - May 1865)
Battles:
Red River Campaign (March - May 1864)
Camden Expedition (March - May 1864)
Mansfield (April 8, 1864)
Pleasant Hill (April 9, 1864)
Jenkins' Ferry (April 30, 1864)
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