In the current (April, 2009) issue of "Man at Arms for the Gun Collector" magazine is a short piece about a saber reputed to have been the property of Spruce McCoy Baird. It states that he was commander of the 4th Texas Cavalry, the Arizona Brigade. Handbook of Texas on Line says it was the 4th Regiment of the Arizona Brigade.

Anybody have good information to sort this out in order to determine what his role in the war was?