Joseph Lance
Enlisted as a Private
"A" Co. TX 12th Infantry
12th Texas Infantry Rgt.
Col. Overton Young, LtCols. William Clark, B. A. Philpott,
Majs. Erastus Smith
The regiment, also known as the 8th Texas Infantry Rgt., was formed at
Waco, Texas in the spring of 1862 and included men from Clarksville,
Cameron, Hempstead, Nacogdoches, Fairfield, Waco and the counties of
Comanche, Milam and Grimes. It was assigned to O. Young's, Waul's
brigade, Trans-Mississippi Department. It fought at Jenkins' Ferry,
Ark. It moved to Hemstead, Texas and disbanded in the spring of 1865.
Joseph Lance, age 34, Private, Company A, Young's Regiment Texas Infantry,* mustered into service May 2, 1862 at Halletsville, Texas by Lt. Dibrell for 3 years, recorded on the Sept. & Oct., 1862 muster roll as sick at Tyler, Tex., December 2, 1862 regimental return notes as sick in Laincca [sp?] County, Texas, last recorded present on the January & February, 1864 muster roll**, admitted CSA General Hospital, Shreveport, Louisiana April 16,1864, gunshot wound, furloughed April 25 for 60 days, no further records
* This regiment completed its organization about February 3, 1862. It was officially designated the 12th Regiment Texas Infantry but was known in the field as Young's and as the 8th Regiment Texas Infantry and it was finally paroled as of the latter designation.
** This muster roll taken at Camp Rogers, La. is the last roll for the company found in the records. Therefore we cannot follow his subsequent service
M323: Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Texas