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Texas Units at Pea Ridge

The following is extracted from "Pea Ridge, Civil War Campaign in the West," William L. Shea & Earl J. Hess, (C)1992, University of North Carolina Press, Appendix 2:

Texas units listed on the field, March 7-8, 1862:

4th Texas Cavalry (dismounted)-- Major John W. Whitfield
(Battalion consisted of three compaines of Texas troops and one of Arkansas troops)
Losses: Unknown

3rd Texas Cavalry--Col Elkanah Greer, Lt Col Walter P. Lane
Losses: 14 (2k, 12w)

6th Texas Cavalry--Col. B. Warren Stone
Losses: 19 (3k, 3w, 13m)

9th Texas Caalry--Col. Willam B. Sims (w), Lt Col William Quayle
Losses: Unknown

11th Texas Cavalry--Col William C. Young
Losses: unknown

1st Texas Cavalry Battalion--Maj. R. Phillip Crump
Losses: unknown

Good's Texas Battery--Capt. John J. Good
Four 12-ounder guns and two 12 pounder howitzers
Losses: 17 (1 k, 14 w, 2 m)

Welch's Texas Cavalry Squadron--Capt Otis G. Welch
Losses: unknown

A footnote states, "Casualty figures for Confederate units are incomplete or otherwise inaccurate. The authors indicated that Van Dorn estimated Confederate losses as 800 killed/wounded and 200 taken prisoner. The authors also indicate those figures as suspect since Van Dorn's leadership was in question....not only by Richmond but by most of his own men...and his figures were an old military axiom known as "Charley-Yankee-Alpha" (CYA)

Of the 8 Texas units involved only 3 recorded casualty reports. It might be assumed that a number of the wounded later died, given the lack of medical services and in the hellish late winter retreat through the mountains. How many of the missing were killed also remains and unknown. Many of the missing may have decided they'd seen all of war they wanted to see. A significant number may have been among the Confederate dead roughly tossed into burial trenches by the Union forces who held the field.

Much of the Confederate Army of the West would soon cross the Mississippi with many of the units absorbed into the Army of Tennessee and the northern half of Arkansas left to sink into misery as bands of partisans...some claiming Union, some Confederate allegence...burned and looted the area.

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