George Martin
T D. Williams
Residence was not listed;
Enlisted as a Sergeant (date unknown).
"H" Co. TX Bourland's Cavalry
Bourland's Regiment, Texas Cavalry (Border Regiment)
Bourland's Cavalry Regiment was organized during the spring of 1863 and served in the Trans-Mississippi Department. The purpose of this unit was to guard the northern border of Texas and at times, therefore, was called the Border Regiment. It confronted the Federals in the Indian Territory and Texas, and on January 1, 1865, it reported 4 officers and 564 men fit for duty. The regiment surrendered in June. Colonel James Bourland, Lieutenant Colonel John R. Diamond, and Major Charles L. Roff were in command.
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T D. Williams
Residence was not listed;
Enlisted as a Private (date unknown).
"E" Co. TX 4th Infantry
4TH TEX. VOL. INF. REGT.
COMPANY E - LONE STAR GUARDS
Company was organized in McLennan County, Texas, enrolled at Waco, Tex., July 13, 1861, and mustered into the Confederate service "for the war" at Richmond, Va., on Sept.16, 1861, by Lt. Waller R. Bullock, CSA.
Key (1) Original member of Company. (2) Paroled at Appomattox. K (Killed), W (Wounded), POW (Prisoner of War) AWOL (Absent Without Leave)
(1)(2) WILLIAMS, T. D. - Appt. courier to Gen. Hood, Nov. 12, 1862: Courier to Gen. Chas. Field, Apr., 1864: On recruiting serv. to Tex., Summer, 1864: Paroled, Appomattox (Apr.12, 1865).
[http://texas-brigade.com/4texrostercoe.htm]
4th Texas Infantry, "From Corsicana to Appomattox," by John Spencer. This Confederate Unit fought in all 38 of the brigade's engagements and 6 of the most famous battles of the war - Gaines Mill, 2nd Manassas, Antietam, Gettysburg, Chickamauga and the Wilderness. They were the men of the 4th Texas Infantry, John Bell Hood's Texas Brigade. 199 pages, 1984 issue
4th Texas Infantry Regiment, "A Texan in Search of a Fight," by John C. West. 189 page, 1994 reprint
March 1862
In early March 1862, Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, commander of the Dept. of Northern Virginia, ordered all Confederate troops along the Potomac River to abandon their line and move southward to Fredericksburg. On March 5, a detail of 20 men from each of the Texas regiments was sent up to Occoquan Creek to serve as a rear guard for Hampton's South Carolina Legion as it moved south. On March 8, the Texas Brigade left its camps near Dumfries and reluctantly moved south. Noting the bitter disappointment and low morale of the Fourth Texas as it ``retreated'' toward Fredericksburg, Col. John Bell Hood delivered this stirring speech to the regiment:
Soldiers -- I had hoped that when we left our winter-quarters, it would be to move forward; but those who have better opportunities of judging than we have, order otherwise. You must not regard it as a disgrace -- it is never a disgrace to retreat when the welfare of your country requires such a movement. Our is the last Brigade to leave the lines of the Potomac. Upon us devolves the duties of a rear guard, and in order to discharge them faithfully, every man must be in his place, at all times. You are now leaving your comfortable winter quarters to enter upon a stirring campaign -- a campaign which will be filled with blood, and fraught with the destinies of our young Confederacy. Its success or failure rests upon the soldiers of the South. They are equal to the emergency. I feel no hesitation in predicting that you, at least, will discharge your duties, and when the struggle does come, that proud banner you bear, placed by the hand of beauty in the keeping of the brave, will ever be found in the thickest of the fray -- Fellow soldiers -- Texans -- let us stand or fall together. I have done.
The men gave three cheers for Hood and marched on, carrying only their personal belongings, frying pans, and camp kettles. Only one wagon was allowed for every two companies. The remainder of their possessions, tents, and cooking utensils were left behind to prevent the Yankees from discovering that the camps had been abandoned. The Texas Brigade marched eight miles on bad roads that day, finally camping at 10 pm on the south bank of Chopawamsic Creek.
The next day, March 9, the brigade continued its ``mud march'' another 8 miles and went into bivouac on Austin's Run near Stafford Court House. On Sunday, March 10, the Texans marched to within 4 miles of Fredericksburg. First Sergeant Oscar Downs of the Fourth Texas wrote in his diary, ``The roads are awful and my shoulders are nearly bleeding from carrying a heavy knapsack. I thought several times that I was broken down, but as I was the Orderly I could not give up.'' The next day, the brigade was given a much needed rest. On March 12, the Texans finally crossed the Rappahannock River at Falmouth, and went into camp in a beautiful pine orchard about two miles west of Fredericksburg. The Rappahannock was now the new Confederate defensive line.
As the Texas Brigade went into camp on March 12, Col. Hood received orders from Richmond that he was to assume command of the brigade from Col. Archer, his senior in rank by a few days. Hood's new rank of brigadier general was dated March 8. Archer returned to his former command as colonel of the Fifth Texas. The motivation for replacing Archer with Hood is not clear, for at that time Hood had not much opportunity to distinguish himself above the other colonels of the brigade. One possible motive stems from President Jefferson Davis's political friendship with Lt. Col. John Marshall, who, on March 12, replaced Hood as colonel of the Fourth Texas. Maj. Bradfute Warwick was elevated to lieutenant colonel of the Fourth Texas, and Capt. J. C. G. Key of Co. A was promoted to major to fill Warwick's vacancy.
On March 13, a scavenging and scouting party was organized from the officers and ranks of the Texas regiments. The party of 48 was to return to Dumfries with the hope of capturing or killing Yankees and recovering as much Confederate property as they could handle. The party captured many prisoners, reclaimed much of the abandoned property, and burned the huts that had protected them throughout the harsh winter. One of the prisoners was a Chinese servant who made the mistake of ``giving lip'' to Pvt. J. C. Barker of Co. G, Fourth Texas. Barker placed the ``ruthless invader'' across his lap and administered a belt lashing that the servant had probably not received since childhood. Such scouting and scavenging parties to Dumfries would be common until the brigade's next movement early the following month. [http://www.pha.jhu.edu/~dag/4thtex/history/history.html#feb62]
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Confederate Forces at Pea Ridge March 7/8, 1862
MAJOR GENERAL EARL VAN DORN
Missouri State Guard - Major General Sterling "Pap" Price
Escort
Cearnal's Cavalry Battalion Lieutenant Colonel J. T. Cearnal (W)
Volunteers
1st Brigade - Colonel Henry Little
1st Cavalry Regiment --- Colonel Elijah Gates
1st Infantry Regiment --- Colonel John Q. Burbridge
2nd Infantry Regiment --- Colonel Benjamin A. Rives (MW)
Lieutenant Colonel J. A. Pritchard
1st Battery --- Captain William Wade
2nd Battery --- Captain S. Churchill Clark (K)
Lieutenant James L. Farris
2nd Brigade - Brigadier General William Yarnell Slack (MW)
Colonel Thomas H. Rosser
Battalion, Volunteer Infantry --- Colonel John T. Hughes
Battalion, Volunteer Infantry --- Major R. S. Bevier
Battalion, Volunteer Infantry --- Colonel Thomas H. Rosser
Battalion, Volunteer Cavalry --- Colonel G. W. Riggins
Battery, Volunteer Artillery --- Captain William Lucas
K-5 W-37 M-0 =42
3rd Brigade - Colonel Colten Green
(Composition Unknown)
K-6 W-59 M-0 =65
STATE TROOPS
2nd Division - Brigadier General Martin E. Green
(Composition Unknown)
3rd Division - Colonel John Bullock Clark Jr.
1st Infantry Regiment --- Major Rucker (W)
2nd Infantry Regiment --- Colonel Congreve Jackson
3rd Infantry Regiment --- Major Hutchinson
4th & 5th Infantry Regiments --- Colonel J. A. Poindexter (W)
6th Infantry Regiment --- Lieutenant Colonel Peacher
K-11 W-101 M-35 =147
5th Division - Colonel James P. Saunders
(Detachments of Infantry & Cavalry)
Kelly's Artillery Battery
K-9 W-32 M-0 =41
6th Division - Major D. H. Lindsay
Detachments of Infantry & Cavalry
Guibor's Artillery Battery
McDonald's Artillery Battery
8th Division - Brigadier General James S. Rains
Infantry Regiment --- Colonel William H. Erwin
Infantry Regiment --- Lieutenant Colonel John P. Bowman
Infantry Regiment --- Lieutenant Colonel A. J. Pearcy
Infantry Regiment --- Lieutenant Colonel Stemmons
Bledsoe's Artillery Battery
Shelby's Cavalry Company
K-2 W-26 M-0 =28
McCulloch's Division - Brigadier General Ben McCulloch (K)
Colonel E. Greer
Infantry Brigade - Colonel Louis Hebert (C)
Lieutenant Colonel Samuel Ogden
4th Arkansas Infantry Regiment --- Colonel Evander McNair
Lieutenant Colonel Samuel Ogden
14th Arkansas Infantry Regiment --- Colonel M. C. Mitchell
16th Arkansas Infantry Regiment --- Colonel J. F. Hill
17th Arkansas Infantry Regiment --- Colonel F. A. Rector
21st Arkansas Infantry Regiment --- Colonel D. McRae
3rd Louisiana Infantry Regiment --- Major W. F. Tunnard (C)
Captain W. S. Gunnell
Cavalry Brigade - Brigadier General James McIntosh (K)
1st Arkansas Mounted Rifle Regiment --- Colonel Thomas James Churchill
2nd Arkansas Mounted Rifle Regiment --- Colonel B. T. Embry
3rd Texas Cavalry Regiment --- Colonel Elkanah Greer
Lieutenant Colonel Walter P. Lane
4th Texas Cavalry Regiment --- Colonel William B. Sims (W)
Lieutenant Colonel William Quayle
6th Texas Cavalry Regiment --- Colonel B. W. Stone
11th Texas Cavalry Regiment --- Lieutenant Colonel James J. Dimond
Artillery
Harts Artillery Battery
Provence's Artillery Battery
Gaine's Artillery Battery
Good's Artillery Battery
Pike's Command - Brigadier General Albert Pike
Cherokee Regiment --- Colonel Staind Waite
Cherokee Regiment --- Colonel John Drew
Creek Regiment --- Colonel Daniel N. McIntosh
Squadron Texas Cavalry --- Colonel O. G. Welch
Other Troops
1st Battalion, Arkansas Cavalry --- Major W. H. Brooks
Battalion Texas Cavalry --- Major R. P. Crump
Battalion, Texas Mounted Rifles --- Major J. W. Shefield
Teel's Texas Artillery Battery
19th Arkansas Infantry Regiment --- Lieutenant Colonel P. R. Smith
22nd Arkansas Infantry Regiment --- Colonel G. W. King
STRENGTHS: 16,200
CASUALTIES Killed 800-1000 (including wounded); Missing 200-300 (Captured); TOTAL 1,000-1,300