The following was found on another mail list. Perhaps some of you will find this useful. I have not checked into the info. Wanda Here is some information I came across with a lot of East Texas and Rusk Co. names if anyone is interested in looking through them. TENTH TEXAS CAVALRY REGIMENT, CONFEDERATE STATES ARMY - --------------------------------------------------- (information collected by Jon Harrison - ---------------------------------------------------------- LIST OF ENGAGEMENTS: (combined lists from Stewart Sifakis, COMPENDIUM OF THE CONFEDERATE ARMIES--TEXAS (New York: Facts on File, Inc., p. 64), and from the Confederate Research Center, Hillsboro, Texas) Corinth, Mississippi Campaign (April-June, 1862) Kentucky Campaign (August-October, 1862) Richmond, Kentucky (August 30, 1862) Murfreesboro, Tennessee (December 31, 1862-January 3, 1863) Vicksburg, Mississippi Campaign (May-July, 1863) Jackson, Mississippi (May 14, 1863) Jackson, Mississippi Siege (July, 1863) Dyer's Ford, Georgia (September 18, 1863) Chickamauga, Georgia (September 19-20, 1863) Meridian, Mississippi Campaign (February-March, 1864) Atlanta, Georgia Campaign (May-September, 1864) Cassville, Georgia (May 18-22, 1864) Pumpkin Vine Creek, Georgia (May 25-26, 1864) New Hope Church, Georgia (May 27, 1864) Marietta, Georgia (June 1-9, 1864) Pine Hill, Georgia (June 11-14, 1864) Lost Mountain, Georgia (June 15-17, 1864) Kennesaw Mountain, Georgia (June 27, 1864) Nickajack Creek, Georgia (July 2-5, 1864) Chattahoochee River, Georgia (July 5-10, 1864) Atlanta, Georgia (July 22, 1864) Atlanta, Georgia Siege (July-September, 1864) Jonesboro, Georgia (August 31-September 1, 1864) Lovejoy's Station, Georgia (September 2, 1864) Allatoona, Georgia (October 5, 1864) Resaca, Georgia (October 12-13, 1864) Dalton, Georgia (October 13, 1864) Bell's Mills, Tennessee (December 6, 1864) Wilkinson's Pike near Murfreesboro, Tennessee (December 7, 1864) Nashville, Tennessee (December 15-16, 1864) Columbia, Tennessee (December 19-21, 1864) Sugar Creek, Tennessee (December 26, 1864) Mobile, Alabama (March 17-April 12, 1865) Spanish Fort, Alabama (April 1-8, 1865) Fort Blakely, Alabama (April 9, 1865) - ---------------------------------------------------------- ORGANIZATION: Field officers: Barton, James M., elected Lieutenant Colonel 10/3/1861 resigned 4/5/1862 Craig, Washington de La Fayette, elected Major 5/8/1862 wounded severely at Murfreesboro, Tennessee 12/31/1862 appointed Lieutenant Colonel 3/7/1864 Earp, C. R., elected Lieutenant Colonel 5/8/1862 appointed Colonel 9/2/1863 Ector, Wiley B., elected Major 10/3/1861 appointed brigade Quartermaster 1862 Locke, Matthew F., appointed Colonel 7/25/1861 (as aide to Governor Edward Clark) elected Colonel of regiment 10/3/1861 resigned due to medical disability 3/5/1863 Redwine, Hulum D. E., promoted Acting Major 6/12/1862 appointed Major 3/10/1864 badly wounded at Atlanta, Georgia 7/22/1864 Companies: First captain Home county Name ------------- ------------------- ---------- A Charles D. McKnight Wood B John W. Wilson Wood Wood County Rebels C James H. Rucker Upshur D Alexander Earp Upshur E H. D. E. Redwine Rusk Bully Rocks F W. D. L. F. Craig Panola G James M. Barton Rusk Texas Troopers H Anderson Whetstone Van Zandt I Robert B. Martin Cherokee Cherokee Cavalry K L. M. Todd Smith - ---------------------------------------------------------- COLONEL MATTHEW F. LOCKE: Col. Locke was one of the greatest men who ever lived in Upshur County. He was with Gen. Z. Taylor in his expedition into Mexico. He was later Commissioner of Agriculture of Arkansas. Col. Locke came to Upshur County in the early fifties and was soon thereafter elected state representative of Upshur and Harrison counties, then from 1856 to 1858 he served as Speaker of the House, being the only man from Upshur County ever to serve as speaker. In 1859 he was elected to the Texas senate and served as Chairman of the Secession Committee which notified Gov. Sam Houston of his disposition as governor. When the Civil War started he resigned his seat in the Senate and became a Colonel in the 10th Texas Cavalry. He left Upshur County soon after the Civil War and died in El Paso in 1899. [from Doyal T. Loyd, A HISTORY OF UPSHUR COUNTY, TEXAS (Gilmer, Texas: THE GILMER MIRROR, 1966), p. 110] In the Mexican War, Locke enlisted as a private in Company F of Colonel Jefferson Davis' 1st Regiment of Mississippi Volunteer Infantry 6/15/1846. He was promoted to corporal and mustered out 6/10/1847. (from Locke's Mexican War service record in the National Archives) - ---------------------------------------------------------- ASSIGNMENTS: (from Stewart Sifakis, COMPENDIUM OF THE CONFEDERATE ARMIES--TEXAS (New York: Facts on File, Inc., pp. 63-64) Department of Texas (October, 1861-February, 1862) Trans-Mississippi District, Department #2 (April, 1862) (At about this time the regiment was dismounted and sent east of the Mississippi, where it served as infantry for the rest of the war.) Hogg's-Cabell's Brigade, McCown's Division, Army of the West, Department #2 (April-July, 1862) Ector's Brigade, McCown's Division, Department of East Tennessee (July-August, 1862) Ector's Brigade, McCown's Division, Army of Kentucky, Department #2 (August-October, 1862) Ector's Brigade, McCown's Division, Department of East Tennessee (October-November, 1862) Ector's Brigade, McCown's Division, 3rd (E. K. Smith's) Corps, Army of Tennessee (November, 1862-March, 1863) Ector's Brigade, McCown's Division, 1st Corps, Army of Tennessee (March-May, 1863) Ector's Brigade, Walker's Division, Department of the West (June-July, 1863) Ector's Brigade, Walker's Division, Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana (July-August, 1863) Ector's Brigade, Walker's Division, Reserve Corps, Army of Tennessee (August-September, 1863) Ector's Brigade, French's Division, Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana (October, 1863-January, 1864) Ector's Brigade, French's Division, Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and East Louisiana (January-May, 1864) Ector's Brigade, French's Division, Army of Mississippi (May-July, 1864) Ector's Brigade, French's Division, 3rd Corps, Army of Tennessee (July, 1864-January, 1865) Ector's Brigade, French's Division, District of the Gulf, Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and East Louisiana (February-April, 1865) Ector's Brigade, French's Division, Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and East Louisiana (April, 1865) - ---------------------------------------------------------- BIBLIOGRAPHY: (If your public library doesn't have these works, it can probably get them on interlibrary loan.) Bailey, W., "The Star Company of Ector's Texas Brigade" pp. 404-405, CONFEDERATE VETERAN, Vol. XXII (September, 1914). (Bailey was in the 14th Texas Cavalry, but discussed the whole brigade.) Betts, Vicki (ed.), "The Civil War Letters of Elbridge Littlejohn" CHRONICLES OF SMITH COUNTY, TEXAS, published in two parts: Vol. 17, No. 2 (Winter, 1978), pp. 9-60 and Vol. 18, No. 1 (Summer, 1979), pp. 11-50. Blakey, P. A., "Errors Concerning Gen. Hogg" p. 474, CONFEDERATE VETERAN, Vol. XIV (November, 1906). Dodson, W. C., "Errors Concerning Ector's Brigade" p. 457, CONFEDERATE VETERAN, Vol. XIII (October, 1905). Finlay, Col. Luke W., "Another Report on Hood's Campaign" pp. 404-407, CONFEDERATE VETERAN, Vol. XV (September, 1907). Harrison, Jon P., "Tenth Texas Cavalry, CSA" MILITARY HISTORY OF TEXAS AND THE SOUTHWEST, published in two parts: Vol. XII, No. II, pp. 93-107 and Vol. XII, No. III, pp. 171-183. Heiner, A. H., "The Battle of Murfreesboro Again" p. 118, CONFEDERATE VETERAN, Vol. II (March, 1904). Jones, P. R., "Recollections of the Battle of Murfreesboro" pp. 341-342, CONFEDERATE VETERAN, Vol XXXI (September, 1923). McClure, Judy Watson (ed.), CONFEDERATE FROM EAST TEXAS: THE CIVIL WAR LETTERS OF JAMES MONROE WATSON. Quanah, Texas: Nortex Press, 1976. McCown, J. G., "About Ector's and McNair's Brigades" p. 113, CONFEDERATE VETERAN, Vol. IX (March, 1901). North, A. A., "Col. Matt F. Locke" pp. 317-318, CONFEDERATE VETERAN, Vol. XX (July, 1912). Sanders, Maj. D. W., "Hood's Tennessee Campaign" pp. 401- 404, CONFEDERATE VETERAN, Vol. XV (September, 1907). Stradley, Capt. J. H., "Ector's Brigade at Chickamauga" p. 308, CONFEDERATE VETERAN, Vol. XIII (July, 1905). Templeton, J. A., "A Chickamauga Prisoner" p. 238, CONFEDERATE VETERAN, Vol. XXXI (June, 1923). _____, "That Disaster at Zollicoffer Barracks" p. 264, CONFEDERATE VETERAN, Vol. X (June, 1902). Todhunter, Capt. R., "Ector's Texas Brigade" p. 312, CONFEDERATE VETERAN, Vol. VII (July, 1899). -----, "Ector's Texas Brigade at the Battle of Allatoona" pp. 340-341, CONFEDERATE VETERAN, Vol. XXVI (August, 1918). Tunnell, Lt. J. T., "Ector's Brigade in Battle of Nashville" pp. 348-349, CONFEDERATE VETERAN, Vol. XII (July, 1904). (Tunnell served in the 14th Texas Cavalry.) -----, "Texans in the Battle at Murfreesboro" pp. 574, CONFEDERATE VETERAN, Vol. XVI (November, 1908). - ---------------------------------------------------------- BATTLEFLAG: The 10th's first regimental standard is on display in the Texas Military Forces Museum in Building 6 at Camp Mabry in Austin, Texas. It was sewn by the wife of Capt. Hulum D. E. "Raz" Redwine of Company E. A Confederate First National (Stars and Bars) flag, it has a large white star embroidered "Texas" in red in the center of the canton, surrounded by smaller white stars similarly labeled for Virginia, Tennessee, South Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, North Carolina, and Arkansas. Red stars in the canton's four corners are embroidered Chicasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Cherokee in white for the Indian nations. The legend "Strike for Your Alters & Your Homes" is embroidered in red on the flag's central white stripe. There is also a Company E flag made by Mrs. Redwine in the museum. It is a more conventional First National with "We Strike for Liberty" and the company name ("Bully Rocks") embroidered in red on the white stripe. If you would like to get in contact with the Museum here is the address: The Texas Military ForcesMuseum, P. O. Box 5218, Austin, Texas 78763-5218. Color illustrations of both flags appear on pages 26 and 27 of BATTLE FLAGS OF TEXAS IN THE CONFEDERACY by Alan K. Sumrall (Austin, Texas: Eakin Press, 1995). - ----------------------------------------------------------