As noted by several submitters, there is a dearth of information specifically about the 14th Texas [Dismounted] Cavalry.
However, additional information regarding Ector's brigade can be found in
1. David V. Stroud's 2004 book 'Ector's Texas Brigade and the Army of Tennessee, 1862-1865'. The book can be ordered by contacting D.V. Stroud through Kilgore College where he is an instructor in the Department of History.
2. R. Todhunter, Higginsville, Mo., contribution to the 'Confederate Veteran', July 1899. A CD-ROM containing 20 years of the 'Confederate Veteran' is available through H-Bar Enterprises, Inc., Silver Spring, MD, 20904, 1.800.432.7702.
A portion of what Comrade R. Todhunter writes, regarding
ECTOR'S TEXAS BRIGADE is below:
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Now if any brigades in the Armies of Tennessee and Mississippi did more fighting from the beginning to the close of the war than did this, history has so far failed to record it. Note its deeds at Wilson's Creek, Corinth, Iuka, Richmond, Ky., in the Kentucky campaign under Gen. Kirby Smith, Murfreesboro, Mississippi, under Gen. Johnston against Grant and Sherman, Chickamauga, the hundred days' fighting from Dalton to Atlanta, including Peach Tree Creek and Jonesboro, the Tennessee campaign, including the charge at Altoona, control of the pontoon bridges to Columbia, Tenn., two days' fighting at Nashville, under fire every day while in charge of the rear of Hood's army out of Tennessee and after crossing the Tennessee River, ordered to report to Gen. D. J. Maury, at Mobile. From this place the brigade was sent under Gen. R. L. Gibson to Spanish Fort, there remaining over two weeks, fighting continuously though outnumbered many times by the enemy. Both armies entrenched within three hundred yards of each other.
In many of the above engagements, though our loss was from thirty to sixty three per cent of the effective strength (Chickamauga sixty three per cent) no engagement exceeded Spanish Fort in severity.
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note01: I believe the 14th Texas Dismount Cavalry was not present at Wilson's Creek.
note02: I take R. Todhunter reference of the 'control of the pontoon bridges to Columbia' to indicate that the Brigade was not engaged in the Battle of Franklin, Tenn., 30 Nov 1864.
Jack R. Box
Boulder, CO