There was one company raised in Panola County for the 6th Militia Brigade, Walter P. Lane's 1st Texas Cavalry, Texas State Troops. The 1st texas Cavalry, T.S.T. was only named in honor of Walter P. Lane and Lane himself enlisted in Col. Elkanah Greer's 3rd Texas Cavalry in July 1861 at Marshall and was made second in command of the regiment.

Col. Greer and Lt.Col. Walter P. Lane led the 3rd Texas Cavalry regiment across Indian Territory to join Maj.Gen. Sterling Price's Army of Missouri and was assigned to Brig. Gen. Benjamin McCulloch's brigade near Springfield. Lt.Col. Lane served in the 3rd Texas Cavalry Regiment throughout 1861 and led his troops in the battles of Wilson's Creek, Missouri, Chustenahah, Indian Territory, Pea Ridge Arkansas and the battle at Corinth Mississippi in Brig.Gen. Sullivan Ross' Brigade on October 3, 1862.

After his enlistment was up in May 1862, Lt. Col. Lane continued to lead the regiment until November 1862, at the request of his troops, and at the request of the newly elected Col. Hinche P. Mabry. Lane returned to Texas in December 1862 was promoted to colonel and raised a new regiment , the First Texas Partisan Rangers. While he was absent due to illness, the First Texas Partisan Rangers fought at the battle of Prairie Grove Arkansas on December 7, 1862. Col. Lane returned from sick leave and commanded the regiment in the Atchafalaya and Donaldsonville raids in Louisiana in 1863. Lane's First Texas Partisan Rangers was heavily engaged in the battle of Mansfield in the Red River Campaign on April 8, 1864, where Lane was severely wounded. After recovering from his wound, Col. Lane rejoined his regiment at Camp Groce, near Hempstead, Texas and assumed the command of a brigade. His promotion to the rank of brigadier general was approved on March 18, 1865, just before the surrender.

It was not Lane's 1st Texas Partisan Rangers that was with Col. John S. Ford. It was Col. Buchel's 1st Texas Cavalry Regiment that served in south Texas and along the Rio Grande with Col.John S. Ford's 2nd Texas Cavalry of the West. In April, 1862, many men of Col. Henry E. McCulloch's 1st Regiment, Texas Mounted Rifles, Western Military District, reenlisted in Buchel's 1st Texas Cavalry after their enlistment was up.