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Southwestern Historical Quarterly
gade'8 and bought Hhd sugar and sent to Texas by Gov. train, went
into camp above the bridge, nothing occurring while we remained
there, save the desertion of a number of Pyron's Reg." &c the departure
of it and Bates' Reg. for Tex, about the 15th. Reuben Browning"'
died Sept. 1st. Paul 8e Joissin Richard &c J. D. Thibodeaux"6 deserted
Sept. 2nd.
[No entries between these dates.]
Sept. 7 After having been held in readiness for several days,
marched 14 miles to Carencro Bayou.
Sept. 8 Marched to miles to bayou 2 miles below Opelousas,
destination not known. Maj. Boone"' on Atchafalaya today (supported
58Speight's brigade at this time included the 15th Texas Infantry and the 31st
Texas Dismounted Cavalry, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel James E. Harrison
in the absence of Colonel Joseph W. Speight. Harrison was forty-six years of age
when he entered the Confederate Army in 1862, having assisted J. W. Speight in
raising the 15th Texas Infantry. He was born in South Carolina and before coming
to Waco, Texas, in 1857 had lived in Alabama and Mississippi. He served two
terms in the Mississippi state senate. In 1861 he signed the citizens call for the
Texas Secession Convention but was not a member of the convention. He was one
of the Commissioners to the Indian tribes by appointment of the Convention. Both
General Tom Green and General Richard Taylor mentioned him favorably in
their reports of the 1863 and the 1864 campaigns in Louisiana. He was appointed
brigadier general to rank from December 22, 1864. A younger brother, Thomas
Harrison, served with distinction in Terry's Texas Rangers and also attained the
rank of brigadier general. Warner, Generals in Gray, 126; Ernest William Winkler
(ed.), Journal of the Secession Convention of Texas, z86z (Austin, 1912), 13, 221,
224, 405-408.
"The 2nd Texas Cavalry Regiment, also known as 2nd Texas Regiment Mounted
Rifles of Major's brigade, was commanded by Colonel Charles L. Pyron. Its per-
formance was notable in the Sibley expedition to New Mexico in 1862 and at the
recapture of Galveston on January 1, 1863. After being dismounted the regiment
marched to Louisiana in May, 1863, and joined General Taylor. Some of the Texas
cavalry regiments captured a large number of horses and mules from the Fed-
erals in the Lafourche country, and the 2nd Texas was remounted. It attacked the
Federals at Lafourche Crossing on June 21 with much gallantry, Colonel Pyron
being wounded three times. Soon after, however, the troops were again dismounted
and their horses turned over to a newly organized Louisiana cavalry regiment.
This action so incensed the men that as many as possible obtained sick furloughs
and returned to Texas. Wooten, A Comprehensive History of Texas, 1685-1897, II,
6o9-614. No doubt many of them also deserted. Lieutenant Colonel Fremantle of
the Coldstream Guards, who had just arrived in Texas, gave a colorful description
of the regiment as it left Galveston for Niblett's Bluff on May 3, 1863. A. J. L.
Fremantle (Walter Lord, ed.), Three Months in Southern States (Boston, 1954),
57-58. See comments of General Taylor on the lack of discipline of the Texas
troops in Official Records, Series I, Vol. XV, 394, and in Taylor, Destruction and
Reconstruction, 126.
"Browning had enlisted in Company E at Niblett's Bluff in July, 1862.
"All were members of Company E.
5"Major Hannibal H. Boone was in command of the 13th (Waller's) Texas
Cavalry Battalion. This skirmish was at Morgan's Ferry on September 7. The
Federal commander reported that he lost 6 wounded and that the Confederates
had 2 killed and to or 12 wounded. Report of Major General F. J. Herron,
September 8, 1863, Oficial Records, Series I, Vol. XXVI, Pt. 1, 312-313.
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