Category: Department of Texas, Confederate Army, United States Civil War

Categories: Confederate Army Military Departments, United States Civil War

Department of Texas was established April 21, 1861. Embraced the State of Texas. Divided into two districts February 10, 1862, called the Eastern and Western. Merged into the Trans-Mississippi Department May 26, 1862.

Commanded by: Colonel Earl Van Dorn, assumed April 21, 1861. Brigadier-General P O Hebert, assigned August 14, 1861; assumed September 18, 1861. Colonel H E McCulloch, temporarily from September 4 to 18, 1861.

See:

• The Confederate Soldier in the Civil War, 1861-1865, Benjamin La Bree, 1897, page 341.

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