Christopher Shreoder, Private, Company A, Timmons' Regiment Texas Infantry [Formed by the consolidation of the 1st and 2nd Inf. Battalions, Waul's Texas Legion, in March, 1864], resident of Washington County, paroled by T. S. Post, Provost Marshal Post of Brenham, Texas, August, 1865, No. of parole - 942, no other records

M323: Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Texas

Timmon's Regiment, Texas Infantry

TIMMONS, BARNARD (1836–ca. 1885). Barnard Timmons, born in 1836 in Kentucky, was the eldest son of John and Elizabeth Timmons. In 1850 the Timmons family lived in Jefferson County, Kentucky, where John worked as a brick maker and had real estate valued at $2,000. Elizabeth Timmons continued to live in Jefferson County in 1860, but there is no mention of her husband John or son Barnard. Her son Robert worked as a bricklayer. Nothing is known of Barnard Timmons’s whereabouts from 1850 to the beginning of the Civil War.

Barnard Timmons began his military career as first lieutenant, Company A, of the Ninth Texas Infantry Regiment. This regiment mustered in from Fayette County, Texas, where Barnard Timmons probably lived sometime before 1861. In early 1862 the regiment disbanded after six months of service. While serving in the regiment, Barnard Timmons was promoted to captain. He then enlisted with Waul’s Texas Legion Infantry Regiment at Brenham, Texas, in early 1862. Timmons was promoted to lieutenant colonel on May 29, 1862, and given command of the First Infantry Battalion. In October 1862 the infantry companies of Waul’s Legion were transferred to Mississippi were they served under Maj. Gen. Earl Van Dorn. Later in October 1862 the companies were transferred to Maj. Gen. John Clifford Pemberton. By March 1863 Timmons and the First Infantry Battalion were engaged in skirmishes at Fort Pemberton and ultimately took part in the battle for that fort. On May 16, 1863, Timmons took part in the battle of Champion’s Hill and on May 18 joined other Confederate forces in Vicksburg, Mississippi, to defend that city from Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant’s siege. When Vicksburg fell on July 4, 1863, Timmons and the other men in Waul’s Legion surrendered and were taken as prisoners of war. At the end of the siege the regiment reported 47 killed, 190 wounded, and 8 missing out of the 381 engaged in action.

Timmons and the other men of Waul’s Legion received their paroles on July 9, 1863. On July 17 Col. Thomas N. Waul granted his men a forty-day furlough. Waul’s Legion reorganized in Houston, Texas, in the fall of 1863 and was assigned to duty protecting the Texas coast in the region of Galveston. On September 18, 1863, Colonel Waul received a promotion to brigadier general and was given command of the First Brigade of Walker’s Texas Division. With Waul’s promotion, Barnard Timmons was promoted to colonel and assumed command of the legion until the end of the war. The unit was officially discharged on May 5, 1865.
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