5th Texas Partisan Rangers
Organization:
Organized by the consolidation of the 9th Partisan Rangers Battalion and the 10th Cavalry Battalion in early 1863. Dismounted in March 1865. Surrendered by General E. K. Smith, commanding Trans-Mississippi Department, on May 26, 1865.
First Commander:
Leonidas M. Martin (Colonel)
Field Officers:
William N. Mayrant (Major)
William M. Weaver (Lieutenant Colonel)
Assignments:
Cooper’s Brigade, Steele’s Division, District of Arkansas, Trans-Mississippi Department (April-October 1863)
Indian Territory, Trans-Mississippi Department (October 1863-July 1864)
District of the Indian Territory, Trans-Mississippi Department (July 1864)
Gano’s Brigade, Cooper’s (Indian) Division, District of the Indian Territory, Trans-Mississippi Department (September 1864)
5th (Gano’s) Texas Cavalry Brigade, 2nd (Maxey’s) Texas Cavalry Division, 1st Corps, Trans-Mississippi Department (September 1864-February 1865)
Northern Sub-district, District ofTexas, New Mexico, and Arizona, Trans-Mississippi Department (February 1865)
3rd Texas Infantry Brigade, 1st (Forney’s) Texas Infantry Division, 1st Corps, Trans-Mississippi Department (February-April 1865)
Robertson’s Brigade, Maxey’s Division, District of Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona, Trans-Mississippi Department (April-May 1865)
Battles:
Honey Springs (July 17, 1863)
Massard’s Prairie, near Fort Smith [detachment] (July 27, 1864)
Cabin Creek (September 19, 1864)
Bibliography:
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)