9th Texas Cavalry

George Ayers was my great, gread grandfather. George A. Ayers is listed as Private, Co A, 9th Texas Calvary, Confederate State Roster, organized at Camp Reeves, Grayson Co., TX on Oct 2, 1861.

Henry was my GGrandfather. Served as a wagon teamster. His brother Amos was also in A/9th Tex Cav

James Polk Dodson Residence was not listed; Enlisted on 10/14/1861 as a Private.Son of Constant Dodson, grandson of Joel Dodson & Frances Land. On 10/14/1861 he mustered into 'A' Co. TX 9th Cavalry He died of disease on 8/29/1862 at Okolona, MS He was listed as: * Hospitalized 8/25/1862 Okolona, MS (Estimated date; sick) Other Information: Buried: Okolona Confederate Cemetery, Okolona, MS......James Polk Dodson, 17, enlisted at Reeves County Texas 14 Oct 1861 with a $130 horse and $20 worth of equipment. He had rode 150 miles to rendezvous which was the same as his brother, JN. He was present in Company A, 9th Texas Cavalry until his death on 29 August 1862.

Son of Constant Dodson, grandson of Joel Dodson & Frances Land. J N. Dodson Residence was not listed; Enlisted as a Captain (date unknown). Promotions: * Major * Lt Col Intra Regimental Company Transfers: * from company A to Field & Staff He also had service in: 'A' Co. TX 9th Cavalry....... J.N. Dodson 26 enlisted at the same time as his brother, Oct.14,1861.He was present till being wounded at the Battle of Elkhorn Tavern (Pea Ridge), Ark on 7 March 1862. He returned to duty in April 1862 and was elected to Major in May 1862. Present till Mar 1863 when he got sick. He was sick in hospitals and private homes till September. When he returned he found that the situation had deteriorated and the command was excess officers and that he was the Lieutenant Colonel. Due to his illness, the excess officers and a Colonel several years younger, he tendered his resignation, which was accepted in October of 1863. ( There is 55 records in his service file ! )

Henry was 25 years old from Red River County Texas. Enlisted on 14 Oct. 1861 for 12 months in Capt. Harts Co. Sims Regt Tx Vols' aka 4th Regiment Texas Cavalry. Enlisted by Capt. Hart at Camp Reeves Texas. His horse is valued at $140.00 and his equipment at $30.00. He was sick in the hospital in August 1862. In August 1863 he is given furlough by General Johnson. Henry is related to me thru both lines Thomas and Covington. He is my 2nd Cousin 4x removed. Deo Vindice.

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John enlisted Terent County Texas around Pecan Gap , Honey Grove area. Died and is buried in the Pecan Gap, Texas Cemetary.

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9th (Sims') TX Cav Rgt. Transferred to Co A, 9th (Maxey's) TX Inf Rgt at Corinth, MS, in Apr 1862. Died Aug 1865.

Hugh Lilly Watson was born 4 April 1838 in Hardin Co. TN. By 1860 he was on Titus Co., TX Tax Roll. He enlisted in Capt. Charles Stewart's Company of Texas State Troops and mustered into CSA service in Oct. 1861 at Camp Reeves. Stewart's Company became Company I, 9th Tx Cav.CSA. He served the duration of the war. He arrived back in Texas in April, 1865 on furlough. In June 1865 he married Lucinda Jane Koonce in Titus Co., TX. He is buried at Friendship Cemetery, Franklin Co, TX along with others who served in Company I. He is my gg-grandfather.

Alfred was born 16 Feb. 1843 in Platte Co. Missouri. He lived in Wise Co. Texas when he enlisted 14 Oct 1861 at Camp Reeves in Capt. James P Williams Co. 4th Regt Texas Vols. [ Sim's]. His horse is valued at $85 and equipment at $12. He is 18 Years old. He has 14 cards in his archival file. Dec 1862 he is sick and is left behind near Grenada, Miss. Oct 1863 he is on special assignment with Col Ross. His archival CMR's give the name as B.B. Cogdell but during the pension application the name was acknowledged as A. B Cogdell. He served until the end of the invasion and died 15 Dec 1913 and is buried beside his wife in the Covington Cem. in Covington, Hill Co. Texas. His wife Carolina "Carrie" Virginia Gathings is my distant cousin.

Born March 10, 1825, Lawrence Co., TN. Enlisted Oct. 14, 1861 at Camp Reeves, TX by Col. W.L. Young, into Co. D, which would ultimately become Co. K. One such notation from book, All Afire to Fight, describes these Texas boys as, ''a thousand or so fearless, hell-raising western boys who endured unspeakable hardships, yet didn''t lose their devil-may care spirit or raw determination to win.'' After their organization, the 9th fought in what is now eastern Oklahoma fighting skirmishes with little rest and no furloughs during numerous Indian attacks, participated in the battle of Chustenalah, and persued Chief Hopoiethleyo to the Kansas line. Sgt. DeLay and the 9th were active on March 7, 1862 at Elkhorn Tavern (Pea Ridge) Arkansas, assigned to McIntosh''s Calvary in Ben McCulloch''s wing of the Confederate Army. At some point he transferred to the 25th Texas Calvary and was eventually killed at Chickamauga Sept. 20, 1863. He was my great-great-great grandfather. The Chickamauga battlefield has a Texas monument to honor all the Texas boys.

Jesse C. Garrett was born 1840 in Tennessee. Son of Presley Garrett and Katherine E. Littlejohn Garrett. Jesse Garrett served in the Texas Cavalry, 9th Brigade, Company K, Hopkins County Beat No. 5, Confederate States Army, under Colonel Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Ross's Texas Brigade. Mustered in August 17, 1861, at Bright Star (Sulphur Springs), Hopkins County, Texas, along with his brother Silas L. Garrett. He fought hostile Indians on the Indian Territory frontier and participated in the Corinth and Hatchie Bridge Battles in Mississippi, and in the Atlanta Campaign serving under General John Bell Hood against Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman's Union forces. He did not marry until 1865 after the war ended, his first child, born in 1866, was named Silas Layfayette Garrett in memory of his brother who was killed by his side in the Atlanta Campaign. Jesse's last child, born in 1885, was named Lawrence Sullivan Ross Garrett in honor of Colonel Ross, leader of Ross's Texas Brigade.

KIA 1864. Silas L. Garrett was born 1839 in Tennessee. Son of Presley Garrett and Katherine E. Littlejohn Garrett. Silas Garrett served in the Texas Cavalry, 9th Brigade, Company K, Hopkins County Beat No. 5, Confederate States Army, under Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Ross's Texas Brigade. Mustered in August 17, 1861, at Bright Star (Sulphur Springs), Hopkins County, Texas, along with his brother Jesse C. Garrett. He fought hostile Indians on the Indian Territory frontier and participated in the Corinth and Hatchie Bridge Battles in Mississippi. KIA July 22, 1864, in the Atlanta Campaign while serving under General John Bell Hood against Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman's Union forces. He left behind a wife Julia Ann Garrett, married in December 1860, no children.

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Dr. Robert L. Sayle was an Assist Surgeon (Sgt) in the 9th Texas Cavalry (CSA). He was born on Jan 14, 1831 in Bloomfield, Stoddard Co, MO. Died Jul 28, 1914 in Greenville, Hunt Co. TX. He was my Great-Great Grandfather.