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1357 Series I Volume XLVIII-I Serial 101 - Powder River Expedition Part I

Page 1357 Chapter LX. CORRESPONDENCE, ETC. - CONFEDERATE.

Abstract from return of the Eastern Sub-District of Texas, Brigadier General Paul O. Hebert, C. S. Army, commanding for the month of January, 1865.

Present

for duty.

Command. Offic Men Effec Aggrega Aggrega

ers tive te te

total present present

prese and

nt absent

Staff 2 - - 3 3

Post of Houston 13 - - 13 13

Spaight's regiment Tex 18 437 437 567 1,010

as volunteer infantry

Post of Crockett 1 9 9 11 11

Post of Navasota 2 - - 4 5

Post of Anderson 3 - - 4 4

Post of Sabine 3 1 1 6 8

Ragsdale's battalion 9 182 182 237 381

Texas cavalry

Detachment Bradford's 4 49 49 53 73

Texas cavalry

Fourth Regiment Arizona 1 52 52 64 89

Brigade (Daly's compa

ny)

Gillespie's Twenty- 6 76 76 120 423

fifth Texas Cavalry

Detachment Twenty- - 5 5 12 43

fourth Texas Cavalry

Captain B. F. Fly's 2 40 40 42 50

compa

ny cavalry

Detachment Thirteenth 3 124 124 159 269

Texas Infantry

Post of Hempstead a - - - - -

Anderson's Texas caval - - - - -

ry a

Menard's company caval - - - - -

ry a

Beazley's company cav - - - - -

alry a

Total 67 975 975 1,295 2,382

a No returns.

Abstract from return of the Central Sub-District of Texas, Brigadier General Thomas F. Drayton, C. S. Army, commanding, for the month of January, 1865.

Present Pieces

for duty. of artillery.

Command. Offi Men Effec Aggreg Aggreg Heavy Fiel

cers tive ate ate d

total presen presen

prese t t and

nt absent

Staff 8 - - 8 10 - -

McCord's 15 117 117 210 445 - -

regiment

Frontier

Cavalry

13th Texas 25 601 601 710 965 - -

Infantry

Dunn's com 2 38 38 46 83 - -

pany unat

tached cav

alry

Goode's com 2 24 24 29 74 - -

pany, unat

tached cav

alry

Smith's com 2 35 35 40 67 - -

pany,

Gillespie's

regiment

Hughes' com 4 67 67 88 99 - 4

pany, light

artillery

15th Field 2 52 52 62 76 - 4

Battery,

Seventh Bat

talion

5th Field 3 44 44 70 95 - 4

Battery,

Seventh Bat

talion

Total 63 978 978 1,263 1,914 - 12

Organization of troops in the Central Sub-District of Texas, Brigadier General Thomas F. Drayton, C. S. Army, commanding, January 31, 1865.

Thirteenth Texas,
Colonel Joseph Bates.

Dunn's cavalry company (unattached),
Colonel Joseph Bates.

Goode's cavalry company (unattached),
Colonel Joseph Bates.

Smith's cavalry company,
Colonel Joseph Bates.

Hughes' battery,
Colonel Joseph Bates.

Frontier Cavalry Regiment, Colonel James E. McCord.

Nichols' battery, Captain William H. Nichols.

Welhausen's battery, Captain Charles Welhausen.


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