3rd Texas Cavalry

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1835-1896

1843-1912

John Ratcliff and his brother Christopher A Watkins enlisted on the same day 3 Jun 1861 at Rusk, Cherokee Co Texas. It is 160 miles to rendezvous at Dallas where they are mustered into Co B 3rd Regiment Tex Cav. aka South Kansas & Tex Vols. & 14th Texas Calvary. Co. Commander was Lieut. Robert H Cumby. Also served in the 14th Tex Calvary under Col. Matthew Duncan Ector. Both served the entire war. Christopher served in Co C. They were my 5th cousins 4 x removed. God Bless our Southland.

Enlisted 7-1861. Died Oxford, Mississippi, 1862.

Enlisted 6/3/1861 at Rusk, Texas into Co.'C', served until 1864.

Christopher was about 19 when he joined with his brother John on 3 June 1861. See bio of his brother.

Born January 8, 1842, enlisted at Shelbyville in Captain Daniel Short's Company E, 3rd Texas Cavalry together with his brothers, James Lockert Johnson (1829-1862) and Benjamin Milam Johnson (1838-1915), sons of the Hon. Alvey R. Johnson Sr. (1803-1862), pioneer Congressman in the Republic of Texas (1838-39). Also enlisting in the same company included two brother-in-laws, (Dr) Jacob Smith (1833-1882) and his half-brother (Dr) William Robert Burns (1843-1900), also of Shelby County, Texas, and ward, Mortimer W. Bradley (only son of Captain John M. Bradley, former leader of the Moderators in the Regulator-Moderator War). Alvey R. Johnson Jr died June 7, 1862 at Corinth, Mississippi. Cause of death unknown but suspected that he died of disease.

Born March 20, 1838, Milam enlisted on January 26, 1862, in Captain Daniel Short’s Company E of the 3rd Texas Cavalry, which formed in April 1861, and had campaigned for a year in Arkansas, Missouri, and the Indian Territory. Milam joined while the regiment was in winter quarters at Camp Wigfall, Arkansas, and within two months experienced his first battle, at Elk Horn Tavern, in March 1862. Subsequently, the regiment was dismounted and some men were detached to take the horses back to Texas, before traveling to Memphis, Tennessee, where the regiment was encamped for a month. In early May, after receiving tainted rations, the regimental surgeon reported that 'fully half of the men were prostrated by camp dysentery', and by the start of the battle of Corinth, on 28 May, only 246 of the 1200 men who left Arkansas a month earlier, could stand to horse. Whether Milam was among the men who fought at Corinth is unknown. He was discharged at Princeville (Tupelo), Mississippi on July 25, 1862, and his discharge states that he had been sick for over 60 days. Had he stayed with his regiment, it is likely he would have died in September, when his regiment was virtually annihilated at Iuka. Married in 1865, Milam had three children by his first wife, and eight more children by his second marriage in 1886. Milam died April 12, 1915.

Nathaniel was a Private in Madison's Reg't Texas Cavalry (Phillips) (3rd Regt, Arizona Bde) Co E, Film number M227 roll 30, Civil War Soldier & Sailors System (http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/). It and it's three other sister Regiments were raised by Texas in an attempt to help bring the State of Arizona back to Confederate control. The Regiment was organized in February 1863. Rather than surrender, the unit was disbanded in May 1864. His Regiment fought at Donaldsonville, June 28, 1863; Cox's plantation, July 12 - 13, 1863; Stirling's Plantation, September 29, 1863; Bayou Bourbeau, November 3, 1863; and those in the Red River Campaign, which included Wilson's Farm, April 7, 1864; Sabine Crossroads, or Mansfield, April 8, 1864; and Pleasant Hill, April 9, 1864. Growing up in Shreveport and Many, Louisiana as a school child, I was taught about the local Civil War history. Nathaniel's units last major battles were fought just South of Shreveport, LA at Pleasant Hill and Mansfield in 1864. The Southern forces used a ruse to help them in their strategy. They cut and painted a considerable number of tree trunks and used wagonwheels to help make them resemble field artillery pieces. The Union forces under Gen Banks could not believe all the opposition and artillery they had facing them. Considering this along, with their failed river gunboat strategy (another story), they turned and headed South, abandoning their Red River Campaign. Nathaniel was born 1820 in Tennessee, and lived in Mississippi, Arkansas, Texas, and Arizona. Susan Henry of Mayer, AZ said: I was told by family members that Nathaniel Reed is buried somewhere along the Red River. They also referred to him as Captain Nathaniel Reed and believed he led wagon trains west. Where my family got this information I don't know. Nathaniel was one of my cousins. He was the brother to my GGrandfather - Leroy Reed (my father's maternal side).

James M. Barnett was in the 3rd cavalry Company F. His father George Barnett was also 13th Brigade of Texas State Troops at the onset of the civil war - his age kept him from enlisting in the CSA with three of his sons. - Older brother Alfred, & younger brother William were also enlisted in the Confederacy.

Robert Jones Haywood enter CSA Cavalry as a Private and was promoted to Commissary Sergeant during his service.

Married to Sarah Abigail Haywood. Brigadier General Mabry enlisted as a Captain in the CSA.

Served 1861-1865 3rd Texas Cavalry, Ross Brigade (CSA) Private Co. G http://gen.1starnet.com/civilwar/3cvrost.htm Brigade History: http://www.3rdtexascavalry.com/third_texas_cavalry.htm

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Born 1830 in Missouri. Served in the Mexican War 1847-48. Enlisted as a Private on 7 July 1861 in Dallas. Commissioned as a 2nd Lt. on 2 Nov 1863. Captured at Jonesboro, Georgia on 20 Aug 1864. Sheriff of Dallas County 1876-80. Died in Dallas 16 Mar 1895. Buried in the Pioneer Cemetery.

Williamson Campbell Glenn was born 1824 in Tennessee, the eldest child of William and Elizabeth Glenn of North Carolina. Williamson moved with his family from Missouri to Texas about 1845 where they first settled near Briley in Nacogdoches County, Texas. Williamson married Eliza Jane Wilder in May 1846 in Nacogdoches County, Texas. By 1860 Williamson had moved with the rest of the Glenn clan to Freestone County, Texas where they all lived when the Civil War erupted. Williamson had two brothers, Jacob and William that enlisted in the 10th Texas Infantry Regiment with two of their brothers in law, Robert and Levi Lee. Williamson joined the 3rd Texas Calvary Battalion in 1862, he was assigned to Company I. The Battalion was then commanded by Lt Col. Madison. Some what later the Batallion was designated the 3rd Bn, 3rd Texas Cavalry Regiment, Arizona Brigade. The Regiment was commanded by a Col. Phillips, with Madison as second in command.

Mustered in 1861; in the battles of Oak Hills, Mo.; Elk Horn Tavern, Ark.; Farmington, Tenn.; and in the battle of Iuka, Miss.; wounded at Iuka on 19 Sep 1862; died from those wounds on 9 Oct 1862. He was one of 7 brothers who fought for the CSA. In addition to him, one other brother died from wounds and a 2nd died from illness contracted during the war in 1864.