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Muster In: August 18611
Muster Out: April 9, 18652
Commander(s):
Colonel Frederick S. Bass
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Lieutenant Colonel Richard J. Harding
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Captain William A. Bedell
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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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Second Offensive Order of Battle: Gregg’s Brigade | Field’s Division | First Corps | Army of Northern Virginia | Confederate Army4
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Third Offensive Order of Battle: Gregg’s Brigade | Field’s Division | First Corps | Army of Northern Virginia | Confederate Army5
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Fourth Offensive Order of Battle: Gregg’s Brigade | Field’s Division | First Corps | Army of Northern Virginia | Confederate Army6
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Fifth Offensive Order of Battle: Gregg’s Brigade | Field’s Division | First Corps | Army of Northern Virginia | Confederate Army7,8
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Sixth Offensive Order of Battle: Gregg’s Brigade | Field’s Division | First Corps | Army of Northern Virginia | Confederate Army13
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Seventh Offensive Order of Battle: Gregg’s Brigade | Field’s Division | First Corps | Army of Northern Virginia | Confederate Army16,17
Eighth Offensive Order of Battle: Gregg’s Brigade | Field’s Division | First Corps | Army of Northern Virginia | Confederate Army20,21,22,23,24
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- Colonel Frederick S. Bass (Bass was in brigade command in January 1865, maybe for all of January into February, and also on February 27.)(Colonel Robert M. Powell was paroled Feb. 2 and took over brigade command by February 17)(January & February 1865)25,26
- Captain William A. Bedell (January & February 1865)27,28,29
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Ninth Offensive Order of Battle: Gregg’s Brigade | Field’s Division | First Corps | Army of Northern Virginia | Confederate Army30,31
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- Unit Strength: ~100 officers and men PFD (March 11, 1865)34
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Dyer’s/Sifakis’ Compendium Info:
Siege of Petersburg Battles35:
- 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 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)
- BTC Notes: Combat 2: Union Infantrymen Versus Confederate Infantrymen: Eastern Theater 1861-65
- BTC Notes: From Corsicana To Appomattox: The Story of the Corsicana Invincibles and the Navarro Rifles by John W. Spencer (The Texas Press: 1984)
- CV: V12N12: The Fight at Fort Gilmer
- CV: V13N6: The Assault Upon Fort Gilmer
- CV: V21N10: Fort Harrison
- CV: V25N1: Texas and Arkansas at Fort Harrison
- LT: March 11, 1865 Willis J. Watts
- The 48th Alabama at Fussell’s Mill, August 16, 1864
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 ↩
- The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 119 ↩
- The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 129 ↩
- The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 138 ↩
- Sommers, Richard J. “Grant’s Fifth Offensive at Petersburg: A Study in Strategy, Tactics, and Generalship. The Battle of Poplar Spring Church, the First Battle of the Darbytown Road, the Second Battle of the Squirrel Level Road, the Second Battle of the Darbytown Road (Ulysses S. Grant, Virginia).” Doctoral Thesis. Rice University, 1970. Print. p. 1311. ↩
- The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 138 ↩
- The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 147: Bass received a flesh wound but recovered “quickly.” When did he return to command? More research is needed. ↩
- The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 138 ↩
- Field, Ron. Combat 2: Union Infantrymen Versus Confederate Infantrymen: Eastern Theater 1861-65 (Osprey: 2013), p. 61 ↩
- The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 147 ↩
- The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 147: Bass received a slight flesh wound in the leg on October 7, 1864 at Darbytown Road, but he recovered quickly. When did he resume command of the brigade or regiment? It seems based on other evidence that Bass was still not in command of the Brigade in late October. See the note from John Spencer’s From Corsicana to Appomattox. More research is needed. ↩
- Spencer, John W. From Corsicana To Appomattox: The Story of the Corsicana Invincibles and the Navarro Rifles (The Texas Press: 1984), p. 102: Winkler took command of the Texas Brigade on October 7 when General Gregg was killed and Colonel Bass was wounded. He apparently still commanded the brigade in late October 1864 as well. ↩
- The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 154 ↩
- The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 162 ↩
- The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 154 ↩
- The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 162 ↩
- The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 172 ↩
- The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Volume XLVI, Part 2 (Serial Number 96), page 1171: “Organization of the Army of Northern Virginia, commanded by General R. E. Lee, January 31, 1865”; This list contains many commanders who were not there. They were the “official” commanders but may have been gone on leave. I have used none of the leaders from this list as a result. ↩
- The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Volume XLVI, Part 2 (Serial Number 96), page 1179: “Organization of the Army of Northern Virginia, General R. E. Lee, C. S. Army, commanding, January 31, 1865”; This order of battle was based off of inspection reports from January 26-31, 1865, and the leaders should be accurate for this time frame. ↩
- The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 182 ↩
- The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Volume XLVI, Part 2 (Serial Number 96), page 1269: “Organization of the Infantry and Cavalry of the Army of Northern Virginia, General R. E. Lee, C. S. Army, commanding, February 28, 1865”; This order of battle was based off of inspection reports from February 28, 1865. However, leaders listed are from January. I’ve chosen to ignore the leaders and just use this source for the organization of the order of battle. ↩
- The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 172 ↩
- The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 182 ↩
- The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 172 ↩
- The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Volume XLVI, Part 2 (Serial Number 96), page 1179: “Organization of the Army of Northern Virginia, General R. E. Lee, C. S. Army, commanding, January 31, 1865”; This order of battle was based off of inspection reports from January 26-31, 1865, and the leaders should be accurate for this time frame. ↩
- The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 182 ↩
- The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 190 ↩
- The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 200 ↩
- The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 190 ↩
- The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 200 ↩
- Watts, Willis J. (1865, March 11). (Letter to Philip Gatherings). From the personal collection of John Stevens. Used with permission. ↩
- Compendium of the Confederate Armies: Texas by Stewart Sifakis, pages 106-108 ↩