35th_(Likens')_Texas_Cavalry_Regiment

35th (Likens') Texas Cavalry Regiment

35th (Likens') Texas Cavalry Regiment

Military unit

The 35th (Likens') Texas Cavalry Regiment was a unit of mounted volunteers from Texas that fought in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. The regiment was formed by consolidating Likens' Texas Cavalry Battalion and Burns' Texas Cavalry Battalion[1] in October 1863. James B. Likens was appointed to lead the new unit, which was in a brigade first led by Hamilton P. Bee and later by Arthur P. Bagby Jr.. It fought at Mansfield and Pleasant Hill in 1864. The regiment moved to Beaumont, Texas, in early 1865, and surrendered there in June 1865.[2]

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  1. [1]
    Oates 1994, p. 177.
  2. [2]
    NPS 2022.

References

  • NPS (2022). "35th Regiment, Texas Cavalry (Likens'): Battle Unit Details, The Civil War". National Park Service. Retrieved November 22, 2022.
  • Oates, Stephen B. (1994) [1961]. Confederate Cavalry West of the River. Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press. ISBN 0-292-71152-2.


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