1st Texas Partisan Rangers

1st Texas Partisan Rangers 1862–1865 May 26, 1865 Confederate States 1865 Texas Confederate States Army Cavalry Regiment Walter P. Lane American Civil War Battle of Prairie Grove Battle of Van Buren Second Battle of Donaldsonville Battle of Kock's Plantation Battle of Stirling's Plantation Battle of Bayou Bourbeux Battle of Mansfield Battle of Pleasant Hill Battle of Monett's Ferry Battle of Yellow Bayou Texas Cavalry Regiments (Confederate) 46th Texas Cavalry 2nd Partisan Rangers The 1st Texas Partisan Rangers was a unit of mounted volunteers from Texas that fought in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. History Walter P. Lane began organizing the unit at Jefferson, Texas, in June 1862 for service in the Trans-Mississippi theater. In November 1862, the regiment marched to Arkansas where it fought at Prairie Grove and Van Buren. After reorganizing at Jefferson, the partisan rangers traveled to Louisiana in April 1863. The regiment was at Second Donaldsonville but did not come into action. In 1863, it fought at Kock's Plantation, Sterling's Plantation, and Bayou Bourbeux. The unit spent the 1863–1864 winter near Galveston. In 1864, the unit was in action during the Red River Campaign, fighting at Mansfield, Pleasant Hill, Monett's Ferry, and Yellow Bayou. The partisan rangers went back to Texas in December 1864 and remained near Houston until the surrender of the Trans-Mississippi Department on 26 May 1865.Matthews 2011 See also List of Texas Civil War Confederate units Texas in the Civil War Notes 30em References Brooksher William Riley War Along the Bayous: The 1864 Red River Campaign in Louisiana 1998 Brassey's Washington, D.C. 1-57488-139-6 Matthews James T. First Texas Partisan Rangers 2011 January 26, 2023 https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/first-texas-partisan-rangers Oates Stephen B. Stephen B. Oates Confederate Cavalry West of the River 1994 1961 University of Texas Press Austin, Tex. 0-292-71152-2 Official Records The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies' Series I, Volume XXXIV, Part I 1891 U.S. Government Printing Office January 21, 2023 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924077700288&view=1up&seq=634 619 Winters John D. The Civil War in Louisiana 1987 1963 Louisiana State University Press Baton Rouge 0-8071-0834-0 Category:Units and formations of the Confederate States Army from Texas Category:1862 establishments in Texas Category:1865 disestablishments in Texas Category:Military units and formations disestablished in 1865 Category:Military units and formations established in 1862