George Martin
Green Morgan enlisted as a Private May 5, 1862 at Sumpter, Texas, joined regiment September 25,1862, Company M, 1st Texas Infantry, recorded on the Mar/Apr 1863 muster as sick in Petersburg and then present on the next muster, then "absent wounded" [most likely at Gettysburg] on the Jul/Aug 1863 muster until being shown present on the Jan/Feb 1864 muster, recorded as "Died of wounds" on the Jul/Aug 1864 muster, killed May 6, 1864, Battle of the Wilderness
1st Regiment, Texas Infantry
1st Infantry Regiment was assembled at Richmond, Virginia, in August, 1861, with ten companies from Marion, Cass, Polk, Houston, Harrison, Tyler, Anderson, Cherokee, Sabine, San Augustine, Newton, and Nacogdoches counties. Later two companies from Galveston and Trinity County were added to the command. Part of Hood's Texas Brigade, it served under Generals Hood, J.B. Robertson, and J.Gregg. The regiment fought with the Army of Northern Virginia from Seven Pines to Cold Harbor except when it was detached with Longstreet at Suffolk, Chickamauga, and Knoxville. It was involved in the Petersburg siege north and south of the James River and later the Appomattox Campaign. This unit had 477 effectives in April, 1862 and lost eighty-two percent of the 226 engaged at Sharpsburg and more than twenty percent of the 426 at Gettysburg. It surrendered with 16 officers and 133 men. The field officers were Colonels Frederick S. Bass, Hugh McLeod, Alexis T. Rainey, and Louis T. Wigfall; Lieutenant Colonels Harvey H. Black, Albert G. Clopton, R.J. Harding, and P.A. Work; and Majors Matt. Dale and John R. Woodward.
The following documents are listed in the unit bibliography held at the U. S. Army Military History Institute, Carllisle Barracks, Pa
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10 Mar 06
1st Texas Infantry Regiment
Bowery, Charles R. “Encounter at the Triangular Field: The 124th New York and the 1st Texas at
Gettysburg, July 2, 1863.” Gettysburg Magazine No. 30: pp. 49-62 (14 photocopied pages). E475.53G482no30.
Confederate Military History, Extended Edition. Vol. 15: Texas. Wilmington, NC: Broadfoot, 1989.
E484C65.1987v15.
Contains numerous, scattered references to Texas units.
Crute, Joseph H., Jr. Units of the Confederate States Army. Midlothian, VA: Derwent Books, 1987.
E546C78.
See pp. 321 32 (2 photocopied pages) for a concise summary of the regiment's service.
Fitzhugh, Lester N. Texas Batteries, Battalions, Regiments, Commanders and Field Officers,
Confederate States Army, l86l l865. Midlothian, TX: Mirror Pr, 1959. E580.3F5.
See p. 25 (1 photocopied page) for a list of officers.
Glover, Robert W., editor. Tyler to Sharpsburg: Robert H. and William H. Gaston, Their War Letters,
l86l 62. Waco, TX: Morrison, l960. 22 p. E605G28.
Hamilton, D. H. History of Company M, First Texas Volunteer Infantry... Waco, TX: Morrison, 1962.
91 p. E580.4.1stH34.
Hanks, O.T. History of Captain B.F. Benton's Company, Hood's Texas Brigade, 1861 1865. Austin, TX:
Morrison, 1984. 53 p. E605H36.
Henderson, Harry M. History of the 141st Infantry, 36th Infantry Division, Texas National Guard.
San Antonio, TX: Naylor, l950. 71 p. UA473.2.141stH45.
Hood, Jonathan D. “A Yellow Rose in Old Dominion: The Civil War Reminiscences of Orlando T.
Hanks.” MA thesis, Stephen F. Austin, 1997. 153 p. E580.4H6H37.
Jones, James T., & Milligan, Edward S. “1st and 5th Texas Infantry Regiments, Army of Northern
Virginia, C.S.A., 1861-1865.” Military Collector & Historian (Fall 1995): pp. 130-33 (4 photocopied pages). Per.
Otott, George E., Jr. ”Antebellum Social Characteristics of the Officers and Men in the First Texas
Infantry, Confederate States Army.” MA thesis, U CA-Fullerton, 2003. 266 p. E580.5.1st086.
_____. “Clash in the Cornfield: The 1st Texas Volunteer Infantry in the Maryland Campaign.”
CW Regiments Vol. 5, No. 3: pp. 73-123 (26 photocopied pages). Per.
1st Texas Infantry (p. 2)
Shevchuk, Paul M. "The 1st Texas Infantry and the Repulse of Farnsworth's Charge." Gettysburg
Magazine No. 2: pp. 81 90 (10 photocopied pages). E475.53G482no2.
Sifakis, Stewart. Compendium of the Confederate Armies: Texas. NY: Facts on File, 1995.
pp. 106-08 (3 photocopied pages). E580S53. (Unit organizational history).
Simpson, Harold B. The Marshall Guards: Harrison County's Contribution to Hood's Texas Brigade.
Marshall, TX: Port Caddo, 1967. 26 p. E5805.1stS5.
Spencer, John W. From Corsicana to Appomattox: The Story of the Coriscana Invincibles and Navarro
Rifles. Corsicana, TX: TX Press, 1984. 199 p. E580.4H6S66.
Corsicana Invincibles=Co. E, 1st TX
Todd, George T. First Texas Regiment. Waco, TX: Texian Pr, l963. 45 p. E580.5.lst.T63.
Travis, Jack M. Men of God, Angels of Death: History of the Rowan Artillery. n.p., By the author,
2008. 232 p. E573.7.10thT73.
Company M.
Wright, Marcus J., compiler. Texas in the War, l86l l865. [Ed. by Harold B. Simpson]. Hillsboro, TX:
Hill Junior College, l965. E5809W7.
Contains numerous references to Texas units.
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