Reserves, Army of the Potomac

Lieutenant Colonel L T Wigfall, commanding the 1st Texas Battalion Infantry

First Texas Infantry

COLONEL L T WIGFALL
LIEUTENANT COLONEL H MCLEOD
MAJOR A T RAINEY

Company A Marion Rifles: CAPT. H H BLACK
Company B Livingston Guards: CAPT. D D MOORE
Company C Palmer Guards: CAPT. A G DICKINSON
Company D Star Rifles: CAPT. A G CLOPTON
Company E Marshall Guards: CAPT. F S BASS
Company F Woodville Rifles: CAPT. P A WORK
Company G Reagan Guards: CAPT. J R WOODWARD
Company H Texas Guards: CAPT. W H GASTON
Company I Crockett Southrons: CAPT. E CURRIE
An independent company assigned during April 1862.
Company K Texas Invincibles: CAPT. B F BENTON
An independent company mustered into Confederate service on 17 July, 1861, assigned during August 1861.
Company L Lone Star Rifles: CAPT. A C MCKEEN
An independent company mustered into Confederate service at Camp Wigfall and assigned during August 1861.
Company M Sumter Light Infantry: CAPT. H BALLENGER
An independent company assigned during July 1862.

The Daniel Boone Rifles, a independent company from Alabama, under the command of Captain A Covington, are listed as assigned to the 1st Texas Infantry, Compnay K, but there is no documentation in Hood's Texas Brigade, Lee's Grenadier Guard, by Harold B Simpsom, to support the assignment.

Sources

"We received orders to proceed to Richmond, where we landed on June 20, 1861. About the 10th day of July we were ordered to Manassas. On the way to Manassas we were in a railroad wreck. The Kentucky troops lost 32 men killed and wounded, but we escaped without the loss of a man. We did not get into battle at Manassas, but here we saw the first horrors of war. We camped there two or three days and our men went over the battlefield and saw the graves of the soldiers and the destruction of the battle. From here we were ordered to Evansport on the Potomac River, and remained in camp till March, 1862."

Reminiscences of the Boys in Gray, 1861–65: Private J P O’Rear, 1st Texas Infantry, Company D

"By late July eight of these independent companies had journeyed to Richmond and were organised as the Texas Battalion. The Confederate government placed Louis T Wigfall, a prominent Texas politician and ardent secessionist, in command."

Texas flags, by Robert Maberry

"He enlisted in a company that was organised for service in Virginia and whih later became one of the seven companies forming the battalion commanded by Colonel Louis Wigfall. Upon the formal organisation of the First Texas Regiment the company of which Captain Wootters was a member became Company I of that regiment, which became part of Hood's Texas Brigade, which gained fame as on of the most gallant and dashing of the Confederate forces in the long and weary conflict between the north and south."

A history of Texas and Texans, by Frank W Johnson, a leader in the Texas revolution

"The twelve companies that composed the First Texas Infantry may be said to have straggled to Virginia, where, in the early months of 1861, it was believed the one decisive battle ot the war would be fought. They went singly, in couples, and in triplets; but although all arrived in Richmond by June 1, 1861, they were not ordered to the front until July 21, the day the first battle on the fields of Manassas was fought, and so did not reach the Southern army in time to take part in that engagement."

Hood's Texas brigade, its marches, its battles, its achievements, by J B Polley

"The different companies composing the 1st Texas regiment had gone to Virginia separately, and been organised into a regiment, under the command of Colonel Lewis T Wigfall, Lieutenant Colonel Hugh McLeod, and Major A T Rainey."

"The 1st Texas had gone to Virginia at their own expense, without waiting for orders, were organised, and participated actively in the battle of Manassas."

The Confederate capital and Hood's Texas brigade by Angelina V Winkler

The boys in gray: Our grandparents from Kickapoo, Texas, First Texas Volunteer Infantry Regiment, Company H, Confederate States Army, 1861–1865, by Helen Anderson

History of Company M, First Texas Volunteer Infantry: Hood's Brigade, Longstreet's Corps, Army of the Confederate States of America, by D H Hamilton

Notes

Eight companies from Texas were permitted to serve in Virginia under the congressional approval obtained by Captain P A Work of the Woodville Rifles and his fellow commanders at Montgomery, Alabama. These companies were probably considered part of the 8,000 men required by the April levy on Texas. The companies made their way to Virginia and by mid- July had all arrived at Richmond, camping at "Fair Grounds" in the western outskirts of the Confederate capital. They were mustered into Confederate service at the Crescent City between 16 May and 24 June, 1861, and assigned to the 1st Texas Battalion of Infantry, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel L T Wigfall. The battalion was expanded to a regiment when two more companies, the Texas Invincibles and the Lone Star Rifles, joined in late August, 1861.

In the early morning 21 July, 1861, the 1st Texas Battalion Infantry along with the two Kentucky battalions, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel T Claiborne, the 1st Tennessee Infantry and the 11th Mississippi Infantry, eight companies, were rushed to the battlefield during the evening on a special "double-header" train of box cars. Delayed by a major accident that killed and wounded 32 men from Kentucky, the train did not arrive at Manassas Junction until the evening of 22 July. The 1st Texas Battalion Infantry helped collect the battlefield debris discarded by the retreating Army of Northeastern Virginia.

After two or three days the the battalion was ordered to Evansport on the Potomac River and remained in camp until March 1862.

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