General References:
- Fitzhugh, Lester N. Texas batteries, battalions, regiments, commanders and field officers, Confederate States Army, 1861-1865. (Midlothian, TX : Mirror Press, 1959)
- Hewitt, Janet B., Noah Andre Trudeau, and Bryce A. Suderow, eds. Supplement to the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. (Wilmington, NC: Broadfoot Publishing, 1994- [see Vols. 68-9, "Record of Events", for most units]
- (h) Pierce, Gerlad S. Texas Under Arms. (Austin: Encino Press, 1969)
- (h) Wooster, Ralph A. Texas and Texans in the Civil War. (Austin, TX : Eakin Press, 1995)
- (h) Wright, Marcus Joseph. Texas in the War. (Hillsboro, TX : Hill Junior College, 1965)
Artillery Units:
1st Texas Artillery
- (x) Hughes, William Edgar. The Journal of a grandfather. (St. Louis : Nixon-Jones, 1912)
5th Texas Field Artillery Battery
- Boethel, Paul Carl. The Big Guns of Fayette. (Austin : Von Boeckmann-Jones, 1965)
9th Texas Field Artillery Battery
- Perkins, John Drummond. Daniel's Battery: The Ninth Texas Field Battery. (Hillsboro, TX : Hill College Press, 1998) [revision of MA Thesis, University of North Texas, 1995]
10th Texas Field Artillery Battery
- (h) Bailey, Anne J. Between the Enemy and Texas : Parson's Texas Cavalry in the Civil War. (Ft. Worth : Texas Christian University Press, 1989) [revision of PhD Dissertation, Texas Christian University, 1987]
Dallas Artillery Battery
- (h) Douglas's Texas Battery, CSA. ed. by Lucia Rutherford Douglas. (Tyler, TX : Smith County Historical Society, 1966)
- Good, John J. Cannon smoke: the letters of Captain John J. Good, Good-Douglas Texas Battery, CSA. Ed. by Lester Newton Fitzhugh. (Hillsboro, TX : Hill Junior College Press, 1971)
Howe's Artillery Battery
- (x) Smith, N. H. "N. H. Smith's letters from Sabine Pass, 1863," ed. by Alwyn Barr, in East Texas Historical Journal, IV (October 1966), 140-43
Wood's Howitzer Artillery Battery
- Hall, Martin Hardwick. Sibley's New Mexico Campaign. (Austin : University of Texas Press, 1960)
Cavalry Units:
1st Texas Cavalry
- (x) Gautier, George R. Harder than death, the life of George R. Gautier, an old Texan, living at the Confederate Home, Austin, Texas. (Austin : 1902)
- (h) McGowen, Stanley Sidney. Horse sweat and powder smoke : the First Texas Cavalry in the Civil War. (College Station, TX : Texas A&M University Press, 1999) [revision of PhD Dissertation, Texas Christian University, 1997]
- (x) Smyth, David Port. "Some Civil War letters of D. Port Smyth," ed. by John Thomas Duncan, in West Texas Historical Association Yearbook, XXXVII (October 1961) 147-176
- Wight, Levi Lamoni and Sophia Wight. The Reminiscences and Civil War letters of Levi Lamoni Wight : Life in a Mormon splinter colony on the Texas frontier. Ed. by Davis Bitton. (Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, 1970)
- Manuscript Resources
- McGowen, Stanley Sidney. The Lineage and history of the 1st Regiment of Texas Cavalry in the Civil War. (MA Thesis, Tarleton State University, 1994)
2nd Texas Cavalry
- Ford, John Salmon. Rip Ford's Texas, John Salmon Ford. Ed. by Stephen B. Oates. (Austin : University of Texas Press, 1963)
- Keener, Lawson Jefferson. Letters from Lawson Jefferson Keener written during his Confederate service to Alcesta (Allie) Benson Carter. Comp. by Lawson Keener Lacy. (Longview, TX : Mrs. Rogers Lacy, 1963)
- (h) Merrick, Morgan Wolfe. From desert to Bayou : the Civil War journal and sketches of Morgan Wolfe Merrick. Ed. by Jerry Thompson. (El Paso, TX : Texas Western Press, University of Texas at El Paso, c1991)
- Taylor, Charles Irion; Milam Taylor; and Charles A. Shanks. "The Taylor letters : Confederate correspondence from Fort Bliss, 1861," ed by Martin Hardwick Hall, in Military History of Texas and the Southwest, XV, no. 2 (1979), 53-60
3rd Texas Cavalry
- (x) Baron, Samuel Benton. The Lone Star defenders : a chronicle of the Third Texas Cavalry, Ross' Brigade. (New York : Neale, 1908. [reprinted, Waco, TX : Morrison, 1964; reprinted, Washington, DC : Zenger Pub. Co., 1983])
- Blocker, Albert B. "The boy-bugler of the Third Texas Cavalry : The A. B. Blocker narrative," ed. by Max S. Lale, in Military History of Texas and the Southwest, pt. 1, XIV (no. 2, 1978), 71-92; pt. 2, XIV (no. 3, 1978), 147-167; pt. 3, XIV (no. 4, 1978), 215-227; pt. 4, XV (no. 1, 1979), 21-34
- Cater, Douglas John. As it was : the story of Douglas John Cater's life. (San Antonio : W. D. Cater, 1981 [reprinted as As it was : reminiscences of a soldier of the Third Texas Cavalry and the Nineteenth Louisiana Infantry. (Austin, TX : State House Press, 1990)])
- Gregg, Parker. "The Third Texas Cavalry, C.S.A." Junior Historian of the Texas State Historical Association, XI, no. 5 (March, 1962), 7-12.
- (h) Hale, Douglas. The Third Texas Cavalry in the Civil War. (Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, c1993)
- Heartsill, William Williston. Fourteen hundred and 91 days in the Confederate army : a journal kept by W. W. Heartsill, for four years, one month, and one day ; or, camp life, day-by-day, of the W. P. Lane Rangers, from April 19th, 1861, to May 20th, 1865. (Marshall, TX : 1876 [reprinted, Jackson, TN : McCowat-Mercer Press, 1954; reprinted and ed. by Bell Irvin Wiley. Wilmington, NC : Broadfoot Pub. Co., 1987])
- Hogg, Tom. "Reminiscences of the war : the last day at Corinth," ed. by Robert C. Cotner, in East Texas Historical Journal, XX, no. 1 (1982), 48-53
- Lane, Walter Paye. The Adventures and recollections of General Walter P. Lane, a San Jacinto veteran : containing sketches of the Texian, Mexican, and late wars, with several Indian fights thrown in. (Marshall, TX : Tri-Weekly Herald, 1887. [reprinted, Marshall, TX : News Messenger, 1928])
- (x) Watson, James Monroe. Confederate from East Texas : the Civil War letters of James Monroe Watson. Ed. by Judy Watson McClure. (Quanah, TX : Nortex Press, 1976)
4th Texas Cavalry
- Alexander, William Lee. "An appraisal of the 1862 New Mexico Campaign : a Confederate officer's letter to Nacogdoches," by Martin Hardwick Hall, in New Mexico Historical Review, LI (October 1976), 329-335
- Giesecke, Julius. "The Diary of Julius Giesecke, 1861-1862", Texas Military History, III (1963), 228-242; IV (1964), 27-54 [translated from "Tagebuch des Capt. Julius Giesecke wahrend des Burgerkrieges", Jahrbuch der Neu-Braunfelser Zeitung. New Braunfels, TX, 1934: pp. 27-60; 1935: pp. 18-34]
- Hall, Martin Hardwick. Sibley's New Mexico Campaign. (Austin : University of Texas Press, 1960)
- Hanna, Ebenezer. "The journal of Ebenezer Hanna," by Martin H. Hall, in Password, III (January 1959), 14-29
- Noel, Theophilus. Autobiography and reminiscences of Theophilus Noel. (Chicago : Theophilus Noel, 1904)
- Noel, Theophilus. A Campaign from Santa Fe to the Mississippi : being a history of the old Sibley Brigade, from its first organization to the present time, its campaigns in New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, Louisiana and Arkansas, in the years of 1861-2-3-4. (Shreveport, LA : Shreveport News, 1865. [reprinted and ed. by Martin Hardwick Hall, Edwin Adams Davis. Houston : Stagecoach Press, 1961])
- Peticolas, Alfred Brown. Rebels on the Rio Grande : The Civil War journal of A. B. Peticolas. Ed. by Don E. Alberts. (Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 1984)
- Starr, Frank. "New Mexico campaign letters of Frank Starr, 1861-1862. Ed. by David B. Gracy", Texas Military History, IV (fall 1964), 169-188
5th Texas Cavalry
- Collins, Thomas Benton. "A Texan's account of the battle of Valverde," in Panhandle-Plains Historical Review, XXXVII (1964), 33-35
- Hall, Martin Hardwick. Sibley's New Mexico Campaign. (Austin : University of Texas Press, 1960)
6th Texas Cavalry
- Garrett, David R. The Civil War letters of David R. Garrett, detailing the adventures of the 6th Texas Cavalry, 1861-1865, ed. by Max Layle. (Marshall, TX : Port Caddo Press, 1964)
- Keen, Newton Asbury. Living and fighting with the Texas 6th cavalry. (Gaithersburg, MD : Butternut Press, 1986)
- Keen, Newton Asbury. "'Such is war' : the Confederate memoirs of Newton Asbury Keen," ed. by William Clyde Billingsley, in Texas Military History, pt. 1, VI (winter 1967), 239-52; pt. 2, VII (spring 1968), 44-70; pt. 3, VII (summer 1968), 103-119; and pt. 4, VII (fall 1968), 176-194
7th Texas Cavalry
- Hall, Martin Hardwick. Sibley's New Mexico Campaign. (Austin : University of Texas Press, 1960)
8th Texas Cavalry
- Affleck, Isaac Dunbar. "A cadet at Bastrop Military Institute : the letters of Isaac Dunbar Affleck," ed. by Robert W. Williams, and Ralph A. Wooster, in Military History of Texas and the Southwest, VI (July 1967), 89-106
- -----. "Camp life in Civil War Louisiana : the Civil War letters of Private Isaac Dunbar Affleck," ed. by Robert W. Williams and Ralph A. Wooster, in Louisiana History, V (spring 1964), 187-201
- -----. "A Texas war clerk : Civil War letters of Isaac Dunbar Affleck," ed. by Robert W. Williams and Ralph A. Wooster, in Texas Military History, II (November 1962), 279-294
- -----. "With Terry's Texas Rangers : the letters of Isaac Dunbar Affleck," ed. by Robert W. Williams and Ralph A. Wooster, Civil War History, IX (September 1963), 299-319
- -----. "With the Confederate cavalry in East Texas : the Civil War diary of Pvt. Isaac Dunbar Affleck," ed. by Robert W. Williams and Ralph A. Wooster, in East Texas Historical Journal, I (July 1963), 17-28
- -----. "With the Confederate cavalry in the West : the Civil War experiences of Isaac Dunbar Affleck," ed. by Ralph A. Wooster, in Southwestern Historical Quarterly, LXXXIII (July 1979), 1-28
- -----. "With Wharton's Cavalry in Arkansas : the Civil War letters of Private Isaac Dunbar Affleck," ed. by Robert W. Williams and Ralph A. Wooster, in Arkansas Historical Quarterly, XXI (autumn 1962), 247-268.
- Batchelor, Benjamin Franklin. Batchelor-Turner letters, 1861-1864, ed. by H. J. H. Rugeley. (Austin : Steck, 1961)
- Blackburn, James Knox. "Reminiscences of the Terry Rangers", Southwestern Historical Quarterly, XXII (1918/19), 38-77, 143-179 [reprinted, Austin : University of Texas, 1919; Austin : Ranger Press, 1979.]
- (p) Bunting, Robert F. The Hanging of Ephraim Shelby Dodd. (Luray, VA: Treasures Beyond Measure, [2001])
- (x) Dodd, Ephraim Shelby. Diary of Ephraim Shelby Dodd, member of Company D, Terry's Texas Rangers : December 4, 1862--January 1, 1864. (Austin : Steck, 1914 [(p) reprinted, Luray, VA: K.P. Stiles, 2001])
- (p) Fitzhugh, Lester Newton. Terry's Texas Rangers: 8th Texas Cavalry, CSA. An address by Lester N. Fitzhugh before the Houston Civil War Round Table March 21, 1958. (Houston : Civil War Round Table, [preface, 1958])
- (p) Fletcher, William Andrew. Rebel private front and rear : experiences and observtions from the early fifties and through the Civil War. (Beaumont : Greer, 1908 [reprinted, Austin : University of Texas Press, 1954])
- Giles, Leonidas Blanton. Terry's Texas Rangers. (Austin : Von Boeckmann-Jones, 1911 [reprinted, Austin : Pemberton Press, 1967])
- Graber, Henry William. The Life record of H. W. Graber, a Terry Texas Ranger, 1861-1865 : sixty-two years in. Texas (1916)
- Hodges, Robert. "Robert Hodges, jr., Confederate soldier," ed. by Maury Darst, in East Texas Historical Journal, IX (March 1971), 20-49
- Jeffries, Charlie C. Terry's Rangers. (New York : Vantage Press, 1961)
- John, Enoch D. "'With tears in their eyes' : on the road to the sea, Shannon's Scouts," ed. by Paul Scott, in Civil War Times Illustrated, XXI (January 1983), 26-29
- Larter, Harry. "Terry's Texas Rangers (8th Texas Cavalry) C.S.A.", Military Collector and Historian, V (1954), 15-16.
- "Letters by Terry Rangers", Bastrop : a compilation of material ... by Margaret Belle Jones. (Bastrop, TX : 1936)
- Rabb, John Wesley. "'We are stern and resolved' : the Civil War letters of John Wesley Rabb, Terry's Texas Rangers," ed. by Thomas W. Cutrer, in Southwestern Historical Quarterly, XCI, no. 2 (Oct 1987), 185-226
- (x) Scott, Paul R. "Shannon's Scouts; Combat Reconnaissance Detachment of Terry's Texas Rangers", in Military History of Texas and the Southwest, XV, No. III, 4-23
- Terry Texas Ranger trilogy, ed. by Thomas W. Cutrer. (Austin, TX : State House Press, 1996) [Includes: Terry Texas Rangers, by L.B. Giles; Reminiscences of the Terry Rangers, by J.K.P. Blackburn; and The diary of Ephraim Shelby Dodd]
9th Texas Cavalry
- Bates, James C., and Richard G. Lowe. A Texas Cavalry Officer's Civil War : The Diary and Letters of James C. Bates. (Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 1999)
- Griscom, George L. Fighting with Ross' Texas Cavalry Brigade, C.S.A. : the diary of George L. Griscom, adjutant, 9th Texas Cavalry Regiment, ed. by Homer L. Kerr. (Hillsboro, TX : Hill Jr. College Press, 1976)
- Hodgson, Matthew. "Bampson of Bampson's Legion : an informal study of Confederate command", Civil War History, I (1960), 157-169.
- (h) Crabb, Martha L. All Afire to Fight: The Untold Tale of the Civil War's Ninth Texas Cavalry. (Avon Books, 2000)
- Sparks, A. W. The War between the states as I saw it : reminiscent, historical and personal. (Tyler, TX : Lee & Burnett, 1901)
10th Texas Cavalry
- (x) Watson, James Monroe. Confederate from east Texas : the Civil War letters of James Monroe Watson. Ed. by Judy Watson McClure.
(Quanah, TX : Nortex Press, c1976)
12th Texas Cavalry
- Anderson, John Q., comp. Campaigning with Parsons' Texas Cavalry Brigade, CSA; the war journals and letters of the four Orr brothers, 12th Texas Cavalry Regiment. ([Hillsboro, TX] : Hill Junior College Press, 1967)
- (h) Bailey, Anne J. Between the Enemy & Texas : Parsons's Texas Cavalry in the Civil War. (Ft. Worth : Texas Christian University Press, 1989) [revision of PhD Dissertation, Texas Christian University, 1987]
- -------. In the saddle with the Texans : day-by-day with Parsons's Cavalry Brigade, 1862-1865. (Abilene, TX : McWhiney Foundation Press, McMurry University, 2004)
- Gallaway, B. P. The ragged rebel : a common soldier in W.H.
Parsons' Texas Cavalry, 1861-1865. (Austin : University of Texas Press, 1988)
13th Texas Cavalry Battalion
- (x) Spurlin, Charles D. West of the Mississippi with Waller's 13th Texas Cavalry Battalion, CSA. (Hillsboro, TX, 1971)
13th Texas Cavalry
- Reid, Thomas. The Spartan Band: Burnett's 13th Texas
Cavalry in the Civil War (Denton, TX: University of North Texas Press, 2005; revision of his MA thesis, Lamar University, 2002)
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15th Texas Cavalry
- Collins, R. M. Chapters from the unwritten history of the War Between the States : or, the incidents in the life of a Confederate soldiers, in camp, on the march, in the great battles, and in prison. (St. Louis : Nixon-Jones, 1893)
19th Texas Cavalry
- (h) Bailey, Anne J. Between the Enemy and Texas : Parson's Texas Cavalry in the Civil War. (Ft. Worth : Texas Christian University Press, 1989) [revision of PhD Dissertation, Texas Christian University, 1987]
21st Texas Cavalry
- Bailey, Anne J. Between the Enemy and Texas : Parson's Texas Cavalry in the Civil War. (Ft. Worth : Texas Christian University Press, 1989) [revision of PhD Dissertation, Texas Christian University, 1987]
24th Texas Cavalry
- Foster, Samuel T. One of Cleburne's Command : the Civil War reminiscences and diary of Capt. Samuel T. Foster, Granbury's Texas Brigade, CSA. Ed. by Norman D. Brown. (Austin, TX : University of Texas Press, c1980)
25th Texas Cavalry
- Walton, William Martin. An Epitome of my life : Civil War reminiscences. (Austin : Waterloo Press, 1965)
26th Texas Cavalry
- Debray, Xavier Blanchard. A Sketch of the history of Debray's (26th) Regiment of Texas Cavalry. (Austin : Eugene von Boeckmann, 1884; [reprinted, Waco : Village Press, 1961; also printed as "A Sketch of Debray's Twenty-sixth regiment of Texas cavalry, " Southern Historical Society Papers, XII (1884), pp.547-554])
- Graves, Harrison A. Andrew Jackson Potter : the fighting Parson of the Texas frontier. Six years of Indian warfare in New Mexico and Arizona. (Nashville : Southern Methodist, 1881)
- Henderson, Harry McCorry. "26th Texas Cavalry (De Bray's Regiment)", Texas in the Confederacy, 1955. pp. 106-112.
28th Texas Cavalry
- Anderson, John Q., ed. A Texas Surgeon in the C. S. A. Confederate Centennial Studies, No. 6 (Tuscaloosa, AL: Confederate Publishing, 1957) [Dr. Edward W. Cade served as a surgeon in the 28th Texas Cavalry and later as a brigade surgeon]
- Blessington, Joseph Palmer. The campaigns of Walker's Texas Division. (New York : Lange, Little & Co., 1875) [reprinted, (Austin : State House Press, 1994)]
- Johansson, Jane Harris and David H. Johansson. "Two 'Lost' Battle Reports: Horace Randal's and Joseph L. Brent's Report of the Battles of Mansfield and Pleasant Hill, 8 and 9 April 1864", in Military History of the West, 23 (Fall 1993): 169-180.
- Johansson, M. Jane. Peculiar honor : a history of the 28th Texas Cavalry, 1862-1865. (Fayetteville, AR : University of Arkansas Press, 1998) [revision of PhD Dissertation, University of North Texas, 1993]
- Perry, Theophilus, and Harriet Perry. Widows by the Thousand: The Civil War Letters of Theophilus and Harriet Perry, 1862-1864, ed. by M. Jane Johansson. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2000) [Theophilus Perry served in the 28th Texas Cavalry. He was mortally wounded at the battle of Pleasant Hill]
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29th Texas Cavalry
- Felmly, Bradford K., and John C. Grady. Suffering to silence : 29th Texas Cavalry, CSA, regimental history. (Quanah, TX : Nortex Press, 1975)
30th Texas Cavalry
- (h) Bailey, Anne J. Between the Enemy and Texas : Parson's Texas Cavalry in the Civil War. (Ft. Worth : Texas Christian University Press, 1989) [revision of PhD Dissertation, Texas Christian University, 1987]
32nd Cavalry
- Duaine, Carl L. The dead men wore boots; an account of the 32nd Texas Volunteer Cavalry, CSA, 1862-1865. (Austin : San Felipe Press, 1966)
- Smith, Thomas Crutcher. Here's yer mule : the diary of Thomas G. Smith, 3rd Sergeant, Company 'G' Wood's Regiment, 32nd Texas Cavalry C.S.A., March 30, 1862-December 31, 1862. (Waco : Little Texan Press, 1958)
33rd Cavalry
- D'Hamel, Enrique B. The adventures of a tenderfoot : history of 2nd Regt. Mounted Rifles and Co. G, 33 Regt. and Capt. Coopwood's Spy Co and 2nd Texas in Texas and New Mexico. (Waco : W.M. Morrison, 1965; [facsimile of original, published 1914])
- Williams, R. H. With the border ruffians : memories of the Far West, 1852-1868. (New York : Dutton, 1907)
34th Texas Cavalry (Alexander's)
- Weddle, Robert S. Plow-horse cavalry: the Caney Creek boys of the Thirty-fourth Texas. Ed. by Robert S. Weddle. (Austin : Madrona Press, 1974)
Frontier Texas Cavalry
- Manuscript Resources
- Thomasson, Michael Reagan. James E. McCord and the Texas Frontier Regiment. (MA Thesis, Stephen F. Austin State University, 1965)
Morgan's Texas Cavalry
- (h) Bailey, Anne J. Between the Enemy and Texas : Parson's Texas Cavalry in the Civil War. (Ft. Worth : Texas Christian University Press, 1989) [revision of PhD Dissertation, Texas Christian University, 1987]
Terrell's [34th, 37th] Texas Cavalry
- Spencer, John W. Terrell's Texas Cavalry. (Burnet, TX : Eakin Press, c1982)
Infantry Units:
1st Texas Infantry
- (x) Gaston, Robert H. "Tyler to Sharpsburg" : Robert H. and William H. Gaston (their war letters 1861-62). Ed by Robert W. Glover. (Waco : W.M. Morrison, 1960 [includes muster roll])
- Hamilton, D. H. History of Company M, First Texas Volunteer Infantry, Hood's Brigade, Longstreet's Corps, Army of the Confederate States of America. (Groveton, TX, 1925; [reprinted, Waco : M.M. Morrison, 1962])
- (p) Hanks, O. T. History of Captain B.F. Benton's company, Hood's Texas Brigade, 1861-1865. (Austin : Morrison Books, 1984)
- Henderson, Harry McCory. History of the 141st Infantry, 36th Infantry Division, Texas National Guard. (San Antonio : Naylor, 1950)
- Polley, Joseph Benjamin. Hood's Texas Brigade, its marches, its battles, its achievements. (Dayton, OH : Morningside Bookshop, 1976 [reprint of: New York : Neale Pub. Co., 1910])
- Ragan, Cooper K. "Tyler County goes to war, 1861 : Company F, First Texas Regiment, C.S.A.", Texas Military History, I, no.3 (Nov 1961), pp.1-11 [includes unit muster roll.]
- (h) Simpson, Harold B. Hood's Texas Brigade: Lee's Grenadier Guard. (Waco, TX : Texian Press, 1970)
- (x) Smyth, D. Port. "Some Civil War Letters of D. Port Smythe," ed. by John Thomas Duncan, in West Texas Historical Association Yearbook, pp.142-176.
- Todd, George T. Sketch of history the First Texas Regiment, Hood's Brigade, A.N.Va. (Jefferson, TX : Jefferson Jimplecute, 1909)
- -------. First Texas Regiment. Notes and introd. by Harold B. Simpson. (Waco : Texian Press, 1963)
2nd Texas Infantry
- Chance, Joseph E. The Second Texas Infantry : from Shiloh to Vicksburg. (Austin, TX : Eakin Press, c1984)
- Fisher, S. "The Amenities of War", Blue and Gray, I (1893), pp. 321-323.
- Houston, Samuel. "Shiloh Shadows", Southwestern Historical Quarterly, XXXIV (1930/31), pp. 329-333.
- Rogers, William P. "The Diary and letters of William P. Rogers, 1846-1862", Southwestern Historical Quarterly, XXII (1928/29) pp. 259-299.
- (x) Smith, Ralph J. Reminisences [sic] of the Civil War and other sketches. (San Marcos, TX, 1911 [reprinted, Waco : Morrison, 1962])
4th Texas Infantry
- Barziza, Decimus et Ultimus. The Adventures of a prisoner of war : and the life and scenes in Federal prisons: Johnson's Island, Fort Delaware and Point Lookout. (Houston : Richardson & Owen, 1865)
- -------. The Adventures of a prisoner of war, 1863-1864. Ed. by R. Henderson Shuffler. (Austin : University of Texas Press, 1964)
- (h) Davis, Nicholas A. The Campaign from Texas to Maryland. Richmond : Presbyterian Committee of Publication of the Confederate States, 1863; [2nd ed., (Houston : E.H. Cushing, 1863); reprinted in facsimile, (Austin : Steck, 1961)]
- (p) -------. Chaplain Davis and Hood's Texas Brigade : being an expanded edition of the Reverend Nicholas A. Davis' The campaign from Texas to Maryland, with the Battle of Fredericksburg. Ed. by Donald E. Everett. (San Antonio : Principia Press, 1962 [includes muster roll])
- Giles, Valerius Cincinnatus. Rags and hope : the recollections of Val. C. Giles, four years with Hood's Brigade, Fourth Texas Infantry, 1861-1865. Compiled and ed. by Mary Lasswell (New York : Coward-McCann, 1961.
- (x) Polk, J. M. The Confederate soldier and ten years in South America. (Austin : Von Boeckmann-Jones, 1910 [contains muster roll, Co. "I"])
- -------. Memories of the lost cause : stories and adventures of a Confederate soldiers in General R. E. Lee's army, 1861 to 1865, and ten years in South America, its resources, trade and commerce, and business and social intercourse with other countries. (Austin, 1905) [other variants exist: Memories of the lost cause and ten years in South America. (Austin : Sam T. Hill, 1907); "Memories of a lost cause," Texas Military History, II (1962), pp. 23-43; The North and South American Review (Austin : Von Boeckmann-Jones, 1912)]
- Polley, Joseph Benjamin. A Soldier's letters to charming Nellie. (New York : Neale, 1908)
- Simpson, Harold Brown. Gaines' Mill to Appomattox : Waco and McLennan County in Hood's Texas Brigade. (Waco : Texian Press, 1963)
- (h) -------. Hood's Texas Brigade: Lee's Grenadier Guard. (Waco, TX : Texian Press, 1970)
- -------. "The Recruiting, training, and camp life of a company [Co. "E"] of Hood's Brigade in Texas, 1861," Texas Military History, II (1962), pp. 171-192.
- Spencer, John W. The Confederate Guns of Navarro County.
(Corsicana, TX : Texas Press, 1986)
- -------. From Corsicana to Appomattox : the story of the Corsicana Invincibles and the Navarro Rifles. (Corsicana, TX : Texas Press, 1984)
- (x) West, John Camden. A Texan in search of a fight : being the diaries and letters of a private soldier in Hood's Texas Brigade. (Waco : J.S. Hill, 1901)
5th Texas Infantry
- Archer, James Jay. The James J. Archer letters : a Marylander in the Civil War. Ed. by C. A. Porter Hopkins. Maryland Historical Magazine, LVI (1961) pp. 72-93, pp. 125-149.
- Campbell, Robert. Lone Star Confederate : a gallant and good soldier of the 5th Texas Infantry. (College Station : Texas A & M University Press, 2003)
- Fletcher, William Andrew. Rebel private, front and rear : experiences and observations from the early fifties and through the Civil War. (Washington, DC : Zenger, 1983)
- -------. Rebel private, front and rear : memoirs of a Confederate soldier. Ed. by Richard Wheeler. (New York : Dutton, c1995)
- "Pickett's and Hood's charges at Gettysburg", Southern Bivouac, III (1884) p. 748.
- Simpson, Harold B. Hood's Texas Brigade: Lee's Grenadier Guard. (Waco, TX : Texian Press, 1970)
- (h) Skoch, George, and Mark W. Perkins. Lone Star Confederate: a Gallant and Good Soldier of the 5th Texas Infantry. (College Station, TX: A&M Press, 2003)
- Stevens, John W. Reminiscences of the Civil War. (Hillsboro, TX : Hillsboro Mirror, 1902)
- Thomason, John W. Lone Star Preacher : Being a Chronicle of the Acts of Praxiteles Swan, M. E. Church South, Sometime Captain, 5th Texas Regiment, Confederate States Provisional Army. (Mattituck, NY : Amereon, Limited, 1985 [reprinted, -------. Lone Star Preacher. Ed. by Max Lale. Ft. Worth, TX : Texas Christian University Press, 1992])
- (x) Wilson, Robert T. "Some Hard Fighting : Letters of Private Robert T. Wilson, 5th Texas Infantry, Hood's Brigade, 1862-1864", ed. by Elvis E. Fleming. Military History of Texas and the Southwest, IX, no. 4 (1972), 299-302.
- Manuscript Resources
- Moore, James Orville. The Men of the Bayou City Guards (Company A, 5th Texas Infantry, Hood's Brigade). (MA Thesis, University of Houston, 1988)
6th Texas Infantry
- (x) Cuthbertson, Gilbert. "Coller of the Sixth Texas: Correspondence of a Texas Infantry Man, 1861-1864", Military History of Texas and the Southwest, IX, no. 2 (1972), 129-136.
- Leuschner, Charles A. The Civil War Diary of Charles A. Leuschner. (Austin : Eakin Press, 1992)
7th Texas Infantry
- Dwight, Henry Otis . "A Soldier's Story 1886," New York Daily Tribune [Dwight's account of the battle on the road to Raymond, Mississippi, 12 May 1863, between the 7th Texas Infantry and the 20th Ohio Infantry] (copy available, Ohio Historical Society, Columbus, call #VFM 4826)
- McCaffrey, James M. This Band of Heroes: Granbury's Texas Brigade, C.S.A. (Austin: Eakin Press, 1985)
- Newsom, James Lynn. Intrepid gray warriors: the 7th Texas Infantry, 1861-1865. (PhD Dissertation, Texas Christian University, 1995)
- Van Zandt, Khleber M. Civil War Letters of Khleber Miller Van Zandt, Major, Seventh Texas Infantry, C.S.A. Ed. by Bill Sloan (N.P.: Bill Sloan, 1988)
- -------. Force without fanfare. Ed. by Sandra L. Myres. (Fort Worth, TX: Texas Christian University Press, 1968)
- Manuscript Resources
- 7th Texas Infantry. Vertical file, The Carter House Museum, Franklin, TN
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9th Texas Infantry
- Davis, James Henry. The Cypress Rangers in the Civil War : the experiences of 85 Confederate cavalrymen from Texas. (Texarkana : Heritage Oak Press, 1991)
- Long, J. M. "A seventeen year old Texas boy at Shiloh", Blue and Gray, I (1893), pp. 278-279.
10th Texas Infantry
- Seaton, Benjamin M. The Bugle softly blows : the Confederate diary of Benjamin M. Seaton. Ed. by Harold B. Simpson. (Waco : Texian Press, 1965)
- Wynn, William O. Biographical sketch of the life of an old Confederate soldiers : also, three years as a cowboy on the frontier of Texas. (Greenville, TX : Greenville Printing Co., 1916)
- -------. A brief sketch of the life and ups and downs of an ex-Confederate soldier : also, three years a cowboy on the frontier of Texas before the Civil War and a sketch of my pioneer days in the early settling of Texas. (Sulphur Springs, TX, 1931)
11th Texas Infantry Battalion
14th Texas Infantry
- Manuscript Resources
- Parker, Scott Dennis. "The Best stuff which the state affords": a portrait of the Fourteenth Texas Infantry in the Civil War, 1862-1865 (Confederate). (MA Thesis, University of North Texas, 1998)
15th Texas Infantry
- Manuscript Resources
- Hamaker, Blake Richard. Making a good soldier: a historical and quantitative study of the 15th Texas Infantry, Confederate States of America. (MA Thesis, University of North Texas, 1998)
17th Texas Infantry
- Petty, Elijah P. Journey to Pleasant Hill : the Civil War letters of Captain Elijah P. Petty, Walker's Texas Division, CSA. (San Antonio : Institute of Texan Cultures, 1982)
- (x) Smyth, D. Port. "Some Civil War Letters of D. Port Smythe," ed. by John Thomas Duncan, in West Texas Historical Association Yearbook, pp.142-176.
18th Texas Infantry
- The Autobiography of Wilburn Hill King : with the 18th Texas Infantry.Ed. by L. David Norris. (Hillsboro, TX : Hill College Press, 1996)
- Bonner, T. R. "Sketches of the campaign of 1864", Land We Love, V (1868) pp. 459-466; VI (1868/69) pp. 7-12.
- Davis, James H. Texans in Gray : the Eighteenth Texas Infantry, Walker's Texas Division in the Civil War. (Hughes Springs, TX : Heritage Oak Press, 1994)
Brigades (or larger) Units:
Ector's Cavalry Brigade (Dismounted)
- Program for annual reunion of Ross, Ector and Granbury's Brigades, Garland, Texas, August 8 and 9, 1899. (Garland? TX : 1899)
Parson's Texas Cavalry Brigade
- (h) Bailey, Anne J. Between the enemy and Texas : Parsons's Texas Cavalry in the Civil War. (Ft. Worth : Texas Christian University Press, c1989. [revision of PhD Dissertation, Texas Christian University, 1987])
- -------. In the saddle with the Texans : day-by-day with Parsons's Cavalry Brigade, 1862-1865. (Abilene, TX : McWhiney Foundation Press, McMurry University, 2004)
- Morrison, W. M.. A brief and condensed history of Parson's Texas Cavalry Brigade : composed of the Twelfth, Nineteenth, Twenty-first, Morgan's Battalion, and Pratt's Battery of Artillery of the Confederate States : Together with roster of the several commands as far as obtainable ... some historical sketches.. general orders and a memoranda of Parson's Brigade Association (Waco, TX : W. M. Morrions, 1962, 1892).
Polignac's Texas Cavalry Brigade
- Barr, Alwyn. Polignac's Texas Brigade. (College Station : Texas A&M University Press, c1998 [a reprint of the original edition, Houston : Texas Gulf Coast Historical Association, 1964])
Ross' Texas Cavalry Brigade
- Griscom, George L. Fighting with Ross' Texas Cavalry Brigade, C.S.A. : the diary of George L. Griscom, adjutant, 9th Texas Cavalry Regiment. (Hillsboro, TX : Hill Jr. College Press, 1976)
- Program for annual reunion of Ross, Ector and Granbury's Brigades, Garland, Texas, August 8 and 9, 1899. (Garland? TX : 1899)
- Rose, Victor M. Ross' Texas Brigade; being a narrative of events connected with its service in the late war between the states. (Kennesaw, GA : Continental Book Co., 1960 [a reprint of the original edition, Louisville, KY : Courier-Journal Book and Job Rooms, 1881])
Sibley's Cavalry Brigade
- Howell, William Randolph. Westward the Texans : the Civil War journal of Private William Randolph Howell. (El Paso : Texas Western Press, University of Texas at El Paso, c1990)
- Noel, Theophilus.. A campaign from Santa Fe to the Mississippi; being a history of the old Sibley Brigade. (Raleign : C. R. Sanders, 1961 [a reprint of the original edition, 1865])
Granbury's Texas Brigade
- Foster, Samuel T. One of Cleburne's Command : the Civil War reminiscences and diary of Capt. Samuel T. Foster, Granbury's Texas Brigade, CSA. (Austin : University of Texas Press, c1980)
- McCaffrey, James M. This band of heroes : Granbury's Texas Bridade, C.S.A. (College Station : Texas A&M University Press, 1996 [a reprint of the original edition, Austin, TX : Eakin Press, 1985])
- Program for annual reunion of Ross, Ector and Granbury's Brigades, Garland, Texas, August 8 and 9, 1899. (Garland? TX : 1899)
Texas (Hood's, Robertson's Gregg's) Brigade
- (p) Davis, Nicholas A. Chaplain Davis and Hood's Texas Brigade : being an expanded edition of the Reverend Nicholas A. Davis's The campaign from Texas to Maryland, with The battle of Fredericksburg (Richmond, 1863). (Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 1999 [a reprint of the original edition, San Antonio : Principia Press of Trinity University, 1962])
- Henderson, Harry McCorry. Hood's Texas brigade : an address by Harry McCorry Henderson before the Houston Civil War Round Table, February 2, 1955. (1955)
- Kelley, Dayton. General Lee and Hood's Texas Brigade at the Battle of the Wilderness. (Hillsboro, TX : Hill Junior College Press, 1969)
- (h) Simpson, Harold B. Hood's Texas Brigade : Lee's Grenadier Guard. (Waco : Texian Press, 1970)
Walker's (Forney's, Walker's, McCulloch's) Texas Division
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