Category: 6th Regiment, Texas Cavalry (Wharton, Stone's), United States Civil War

Categories: Texas, United States Civil War | Confederate Army Regiments, United States Civil War

6th Regiment, Texas Cavalry (Wharton, Stone's) [also called 2nd Regiment] was organized with 1,150 men at Dallas, Texas, in September, 1861. Many of the men were from Dallas, McKinney, Waco, Austin, and Lancaster, and Bell County.

Officers: Colonels Lawrence S Ross, B Warren Stone, and Jack Wharton; Lieutenant Colonels John S Griffith and Peter F Ross; and Robert M White and Stephen B Wilson.


Stephen S. Kirk, Sul Ross' Sixth Texas Cavalry: Six-Shooters and Bowie Knives (Independence , Missouri: Two Trails Publishing, 2008). John F. Walter, "Histories of Texas Units in the Civil War," Ms., Historical Research Center, Texas Heritage Museum, Hill College, Hillsboro, Texas, 1981. See

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