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Muster In: October 1, 18611
Muster Out: April 9, 18652
Commander(s):
Captain Tacitus T. Clay
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Captain William T. Hill
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First Offensive Order of Battle: Gregg’s Brigade | Field’s Division | First Corps | Army of Northern Virginia | Confederate Army3
- Commander: Captain Tacitus T. Clay (Left hospital June 17 but was wounded and was again in the hospital at least from June 18-29, 1864)4,5,6,7
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Second Offensive Order of Battle: Gregg’s Brigade | Field’s Division | First Corps | Army of Northern Virginia | Confederate Army8
- Commander: Captain Tacitus T. Clay (Left hospital June 17 but was wounded and was again in the hospital at least from June 18-29, 1864)9,10,11,12
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Third Offensive Order of Battle: Gregg’s Brigade | Field’s Division | First Corps | Army of Northern Virginia | Confederate Army13
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Fourth Offensive Order of Battle: Gregg’s Brigade | Field’s Division | First Corps | Army of Northern Virginia | Confederate Army16
Fifth Offensive Order of Battle: Gregg’s Brigade | Field’s Division | First Corps | Army of Northern Virginia | Confederate Army19,20
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Sixth Offensive Order of Battle: Gregg’s Brigade | Field’s Division | First Corps | Army of Northern Virginia | Confederate Army24
- Commander: Captain William T. Hill (at least October 27, 1864)25
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Seventh Offensive Order of Battle: Gregg’s Brigade | Field’s Division | First Corps | Army of Northern Virginia | Confederate Army26,27
Eighth Offensive Order of Battle: Gregg’s Brigade | Field’s Division | First Corps | Army of Northern Virginia | Confederate Army30,31,32,33,34
Ninth Offensive Order of Battle: Gregg’s Brigade | Field’s Division | First Corps | Army of Northern Virginia | Confederate Army38,39
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Dyer’s/Sifakis’ Compendium Info:
Siege of Petersburg Battles42:
- 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:
- 5th TX: “The Men of the Bayou City Guards (Company A, 5th Texas Infantry, Hood’s Brigade).” Thesis
- 5th TX: Forever the Cause: The Life and Legacy of Confederate Colonel Robert M. Powell, 5th Texas Infantry
- 5th TX: Hood’s Texas Brigade, Its Marches, Its Battles, Its Achievements
- 5th TX: Lone Star Confederate: A Gallant and Good Soldier of the 5th Texas Infantry
- 5th TX: Lone Star Preacher: Being a Chronicle of the Acts of Praxitales Swan, M.E. Church South, Sometime Captain, 5th Texas Regiment, Confederate States Provisional Army
- 5th TX: Rebel Private, Front and Rear; Experiences and Observations from the Early Fifties and Through the Civil War
- 5th TX: Reminiscences of the Civil War
- 5th TX: Touched by Fire: Letters From Company D, 5th Texas Infantry, Hood’s Brigade, Army of Northern Virginia, 1862-1865
- 5th TX: Unveiling and Dedication of Monument to Hood’s Texas Brigade on the Capitol Grounds at Austin, Texas
- 5th TX: War Letters of Captain Tacitus T. Clay, C.S.A.
Siege of Petersburg Documents Which Mention This Unit:
- 5th TX: “The Men of the Bayou City Guards (Company A, 5th Texas Infantry, Hood’s Brigade).” Thesis
- 5th TX: Forever the Cause: The Life and Legacy of Confederate Colonel Robert M. Powell, 5th Texas Infantry
- 5th TX: Hood’s Texas Brigade, Its Marches, Its Battles, Its Achievements
- 5th TX: Lone Star Confederate: A Gallant and Good Soldier of the 5th Texas Infantry
- 5th TX: Lone Star Preacher: Being a Chronicle of the Acts of Praxitales Swan, M.E. Church South, Sometime Captain, 5th Texas Regiment, Confederate States Provisional Army
- 5th TX: Rebel Private, Front and Rear; Experiences and Observations from the Early Fifties and Through the Civil War
- 5th TX: Reminiscences of the Civil War
- 5th TX: Touched by Fire: Letters From Company D, 5th Texas Infantry, Hood’s Brigade, Army of Northern Virginia, 1862-1865
- 5th TX: Unveiling and Dedication of Monument to Hood’s Texas Brigade on the Capitol Grounds at Austin, Texas
- 5th TX: War Letters of Captain Tacitus T. Clay, C.S.A.
- BTC Notes: Combat 2: Union Infantrymen Versus Confederate Infantrymen: Eastern Theater 1861-65
- CV: V12N12: The Fight at Fort Gilmer
- CV: V13N6: The Assault Upon Fort Gilmer
- CV: V13N9: Two Boys of the Fifth Texas Regiment (Fort Gilmer)
- CV: V21N10: Fort Harrison
- CV: V25N1: Texas and Arkansas at Fort Harrison
- The 48th Alabama at Fussell’s Mill, August 16, 1864
Sources:
- Compendium of the Confederate Armies: Texas by Stewart Sifakis, pages 114-115 ↩
- Compendium of the Confederate Armies: Texas by Stewart Sifakis, pages 114-115 ↩
- 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: Sibley refers readers to Clay’s compiled service record and states he was in the hospital from June 18-29, 1864. I could find no evidence of this in the easily readable section of Clay’s records. This might be in a handwritten portion of the records and further research is needed. ↩
- Clay, Tacitus T. War Letters of Tacitus T. Clay. n.p, 1968. pp. 13-14: I do not have access to this book but Sibley writes that Clay “claims (he) commanded through September 1864”. ↩
- Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Texas, National Archives, Roll 297 (Tacitus T. Clay, 5th Texas, Footnote.com Page 19): Company Muster Roll for May + June, 1864: Shows Clay as absent at the hospital. This muster was probably taken the last day of June 1864. ↩
- Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Texas, National Archives, Roll 297 (Tacitus T. Clay, 5th Texas, Footnote.com Page 45): Appears on a Richmond hospital list as being discharged on June 17, 1864 ↩
- 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: Sibley refers readers to Clay’s compiled service record and states he was in the hospital from June 18-29, 1864. I could find no evidence of this in the easily readable section of Clay’s records. This might be in a handwritten portion of the records and further research is needed. ↩
- Clay, Tacitus T. War Letters of Tacitus T. Clay. n.p, 1968. pp. 13-14: I do not have access to this book but Sibley writes that Clay “claims (he) commanded through September 1864”. ↩
- Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Texas, National Archives, Roll 297 (Tacitus T. Clay, 5th Texas, Footnote.com Page 19): Company Muster Roll for May + June, 1864: Shows Clay as absent at the hospital. This muster was probably taken the last day of June 1864. ↩
- Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Texas, National Archives, Roll 297 (Tacitus T. Clay, 5th Texas, Footnote.com Page 45): Appears on a Richmond hospital list as being discharged on June 17, 1864 ↩
- 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 119 ↩
- 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 ↩
- Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Texas, National Archives, Roll 297 (Tacitus T. Clay, 5th Texas, Footnote.com Page 21): Company Muster Roll for July + August, 1864: Shows Clay present with the remark he was acting Colonel. ↩
- 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. ↩
- 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 138 ↩
- 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 ↩
- 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 154 ↩
- The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 163 ↩
- 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 163 ↩
- 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 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 191 ↩
- 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 191 ↩
- The Confederate Order of Battle, Volume 1: The Army of Northern Virginia by F. Ray Sibley, Jr., page 200 ↩
- Compendium of the Confederate Armies: Texas by Stewart Sifakis, pages 114-115 ↩
