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George Martin

Re: Cox's Company, Benavides Cavalry Regiment

Posted By: Jerry Coffee
Date: Friday, 23 June 2006, at 10:26 a.m.

In Response To: Re: Cox's Company, Benavides Cavalry Regiment (Jerry Coffee)

In 1861, Lt.Col. James Duff was in command of a battalion of infantry attached to Col.H.E.McCulloch's 1st Texas Mounted Rifles that were to engage a collum of Union cavalry coming from abandoned federal forts in west Texas. Lt.Col. Duff's battalion was being transported in wagons to a location a few miles west of San Antonio. Col.McCulloch's regiment intercepted the Union regiment that had abandoned Fort Bliss and Fort Davis and were moving to the Texas coast. A Confederate officer moved forward and met the Union force under a flag of truce. No shots were fired and the Union force was permitted to proceed to the coast and evacuate Texas.

In the fall of 1862, Col. James Duff's Partisan Rangers became were reorganized into the 33rd Texas Cavalry at San Antonio and were moved to the Texas coast where they were stationed until the end of the war. This may help find your ancestor's military service.

In early 1863, Capt. Santos Benavides was promoted to major and organized a squadron called Benavide's Partsian Rangers. Benavide's Partisan Rangers patrolled along the Rio Grande to protect that area from Union backed Octaviano Zapata's band of border raiders and outlaws.

In the summer of 1863, Benavides, was now a colonel in command of a regiment called Benavides' Partisan Rangers. With permission from the Mexican government, Benavides pursued Zapata's United States 1st Cavalry Regiment into Mexico. Zapata's border raiders were wearing federal uniforms supplied by Col. E.J. Davis' 1st U.S. Cavalry. On September 1, 1863, Benavides' Partisan Rangers attacked and killed Zapata and ten of his Zapatistas. That ended the raids and outright murder of civilians along the Rio Grande by Zapatistas.

In 1864, Col. Benavides and his Partisan Rangers was moved to Brownsville to protect shipments of cotton and cattle to Matamoros, Mexico and to the European markets.

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