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The two senior officers of the Columbus Greys enrolled in the 13th Texas Infantry October, 1861. It would therefore appear the Greys were disbanded with the men enrolling in the 13th Texas Infantry

Muster Roll of Columbus Greys, Active Company with Headquarters at Columbus, Enrolled July 22, 1861, Commissioned by the State of Texas August 21, 1861
1. John Mackey (captain) / 2. R. L Foard (second lieutenant) / 3. Daniel Miller (second lieutenant) / 4. W. N Glenn (second lieutenant) / 5. Alex Folts (first sergeant) / 6. W. G. Hunt (second sergeant) / 7. South Jones (third sergeant) / 8. R. S Hartsfield (fourth sergeant) / 9. Noah Bonds (fifth sergeant) / 10. George Green (first corporal) / 11. S. M. Newsom (second corporal) / 12. H. D. Donald (third corporal) / 13. William H. Edwards (fourth corporal) / 14. Stephen Harbert / 15. C. Windrow / 16. David Tooke / 17. Simon Thulemeier / 18. P. Riley / 19. William M. Garner / 20. G. C. Journey / 21. T. W. Folts / 22. B. M. Lacey / 23. A. Kuykendall / 24. G. B. Halyard / 25. B. A. Ramsey / 26. P. D. Dillandeo / 27. P. Farmer / 28. Thornton Thatcher / 29. H. A. Reticke / 30. J. J. Smith / 31. J. N. Binkley / 32. R. J. Putney / 33. W. Goode / 34. C. J. Ward / 35. A. Hicks Baker / 36. Isam Tooke / 37. T. F. Sanders / 38. John F. Hicks MD / 39. J. Anselme / 40. John C. Miller / 41. John H. Bowers MD / 42. R. H. Tobin / 43. Peter Gross / 44. Andrew Gallilee / 45. Thomas Williams / 46. W. B. Perry / 47. L. W. Vaughn / 48. M. M. Scherer / 49. William W. Wooten / 50. Mathew McDowell / 51. Rob. J. Putney / 52. E. P. Whitfield / 53. A. Lookup / 54. W. L. Patterson / 55. William H. Bacon / 56. Augustus Jones / 57. William Bridge / 58. N. A. Snavely / 59. R. L. Scherer / 60. H. D. Rhodes / 61. A. L. Smith / 62. H. N. Haskell / 63. Robert B. Marlin / 64. Thomas P. Brown / 65. E. Marsden / 66. Warren Wallace / 67. J. M. Cummins / 68. W. H. Gazly / 69. Thomas J. Grace / 70. R. F. Jones / 71. W. S. Delaney / 72. A. H. Davidson / 73. W. H. Jones
http://library.columbustexas.net/history/state%20troops.htm

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In the first few months of 1861, Colorado County men organized several new militia companies. A few days before the attack on Fort Sumter, the recently organized Colorado Blues, under Captain John Mackey, paraded through Columbus. By May, when a cavalry company, with Shropshire as captain, Upton, Timothy G. Wright, and Weston B. Yates as lieutenants, and Samuel E. Goss as company surgeon, and a company of Germans, with John W. Mathee as captain, were formed in Columbus, the county contained at least nine companies. In addition to Mackey's, Shropshire's, and Mathee's companies, there was a company under John T. Harcourt, a company at Harvey's Creek, two companies, one of Anglos and the other of Germans, on the Bernard Prairie, and a company under John K. Hanks, who had just purchased the local livery stable, at Alleyton. That summer, the county boasted at least fourteen militia companies. Five, including Shropshire's cavalry company, a company styled the Colorado Home Guard under Mathee, the Columbus Greys under Mackey, and the Colorado Rovers under Captain Suffer B. Lamb, were headquartered at Columbus. Two, John Duff Brown's Oakland Greys and John C. Benthall's Oakland Guards, were headquartered at Oakland. Two others, Francis Marion "Dick" Burford's Colorado Grays and David A. Hubbard's Harvey's Creek Mounted Infantry, were headquartered at Harvey's Creek. There were three companies in the German settlements, two, under Captains Mathias Malsch and Helmuth Kulow, with headquarters at Frelsburg, and the third, the Alleyton and New Mainz German Home Guard under Ernst Liermann, with headquarters at New Mainz. There was also one company headquartered at Eagle Lake under Thomas Scott Anderson and a company, the Crasco Hickory Company, under John Zwiegel, in the southwestern part of the county. All the companies were subject to be called to duty defending some part of the state for up to three months, but only one, the Columbus Greys, are known to have been called. In October 1861, they were sent to the mouth of the Brazos River.4

The same month that the Columbus Greys were called to the coast, a Columbus blacksmith named Andrew Jackson Nave decided to make his own, unique contribution to the war effort. On October 14, 1861, he requested of and received from the commissioners court, the sum of $250 to build a cannon. He got right to work. By October 23, he had finished a breechloading, smooth bore cannon which fired a three and one half pound ball and which had a rate of fire, he claimed, of twenty shots a minute. Nave hoped to build more such weapons, but evidently never did. The cannon he had built reportedly was sent to Fort Velasco and there used in combat under his direction.5
http://library.columbustexas.net/history/part6.htm

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John Mackey, age 41, 1st Lieutenant, 1st) Company G, Bates’ Regiment Texas Vols.,* enlisted October 24, 1861 at Columbus by Capt. Wm. McMasters for 12 months, discharged and released from duty, not being re-elected on re-organization of the army May, 1862,

* This company subsequently became Company C, 13th Regiment Texas Infantry

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Robert L. Foard, age 31, 2nd Lieutenant, Company G, Bates’ Regiment Texas Vols., enlisted October 24, 1861 at Columbus by Capt. McMaster for 12 months, elected Captain June 11, 1862, granted 15 days leave of absence to Colorado County June 26, promoted Major November 14, 1863, paroled at Columbus, Texas June 26, 1865

M323: Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Texas

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