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Re: 13th Reg, TX Volunteers
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Texas furnished two Legions for the Confederacy. Whitfield's Legion and Waul's Legion. However, Whitfield's "Legion" was not a true legion. A legion is composed of infantry, cavalry and artillery regiments and Whitfield's Legion was all cavalry.

Waul's Legion was the only true legion from Texas because it was composed of infantry, cavalry and artillery elements and were captured at Vicksburg. Waul was soon exchanged and returned to Texas where he raised a regiment of cavalry which was soon dismounted and served as infantry.

As was stated before, as the war progressed it was difficult to feed and water horses and even to locate good cavalry mounts. In Missouri, Col. John T. Coffee of the 6th Missouri Cavalry sent Steven's 22nd Texas Cavalry horses back to Texas and the 22nd Texas Cavalry served as infantry. Col. Coffee said "The horses are totally on ble as cavalry mounts." During the same engagements in SW Missouri,the 34th Texas Cavalry was known as "The Plow-horse Cavalry" and they were dismounted after leaving Missouri, served as infantry in Polignac's Brigade.

During the war, John Wesley Snyder (Coffee's son-in-law) raised fine horses on his farm and ranch near Georgetown Texas and supplied the Confederacy with many good cavalry mounts and sold cotton to European markets from Matamoros Mexico.

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