Organization:

Organized in the Summer of 1862. Dismounted in 1862. Surrendered by E. K. Smith, commanding Trans-Mississippi Department on May 26, 1865.

First Commander:
Thomas Coke Bass (Colonel)

Field Officers:
Dempsey W. Broughton (Major)
Andrew J. Fowler (Lieutenant Colonel)
John R. Johnson (Major)
Thomas D. Taliaferro (Lieutenant Colonel)

Cooper's Brigade, Roane's Division, 1^st Corps, Army of the West, Trans-Mississippi Department (September-December 1862)

Bradfute's Brigade, Roane's Division, 1^st Corps, Army of the West, Trans-Mississippi Department (December 1862-January 1863)

Cabell's Brigade, Steele's Division, District of Arkansas, Trans-Mississippi Department (April-June 1863)

Cooper's Brigade, Steele's Division, District of Arkansas, Trans-Mississippi Department (June-December 1863)

Unattached, District of the Indian Territory, Trans-Mississippi Department (December 1863-September 1864)

Unattached, Cooper's Indian Division, Cavalry Corps, Trans-Mississippi Department (September 1864-May 1865)

Battles: Honey Springs Depot, I. T. (July 17, 1863)

Stewart Sifakis, Compendium of the Confederate Armies - Texas, (New York: Facts on File, Inc., 1995), p. 90 - 91.

Janet B. Hewitt, Editor, Texas Confederate Soldiers 1861 - 1865, Unit Roster Volume II, (Wilmington, NC, Broadfoot Publishing Co., 1997)