Organized OCTOBER 23, 1862 in Mississippi with 3rd, 6th, 9th, and 27th Texas Cavalry Regiments. Temporary commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Griffith while Colonel Whitfield and Lieutenant Colonel Ross were on convalescence leave.
State service, March 4, 1861 - mid-April 1861.
Confederate service, mid-April 1861 - mid-April 1862 as the First Regiment, Texas Mounted Riflemen, also known as the First Texas Mounted Rifles (mustered out at the expiration of the enlistment period). Some of the men returned to frontier service, but most enlisted in the Eighth Texas Cavalry Battalion, which later became part of the First Texas Cavalry Regiment (Buchel's).[1][2]
35th (Likens') Texas Cavalry Regiment (Likens' and Burns' Cavalry Battalions and three companies transferred from Terrell's Regiment; Likens's Regiment)
Began to be organized in October 1862, by B. Warren Stone, Jr.; operational in March 1863. Disbanded after the surrender of the Trans-Mississippi Department on May 26, 1865.[6]
Company K
5th Cavalry (Partisan Rangers)
Organized February 6, 1863, through the merger of 10th Cavalry Battalion (see below) with two independent companies and Randolph's First Battalion Texas Partisan Rangers. Disbanded on May 15, 1865.[7]
Organized October 23, 1862 by Leonidas M. Martin to act as "Police Guards" in Cooke County. Merged with other units to form the Fifth Texas Partisan Rangers (see above), February 6, 1863.[7]
Company F (Jeff Davis Guards; Houston's Rough & Ready Company)
Company H (Catching's Company)
State Troops
Infantry
1st State Troops
1st State Troops, Infantry (6 months)
2nd State Troops, Infantry (6 months)
3rd State Troops, Infantry (6 months)
4th Infantry, State Troops (6 months)
5th Infantry, State Troops (6 months)
1st Battalion, State Troops, Infantry
20th Battalion, State Troops
24th Battalion, Infantry, State Troops
30th State Troops (The Medina Guards)
Arnold's Company, Infantry Riflemen, Militia
Atkins's Company, State Troops (The Galveston Coast Guards)
Edgar's Company, State Troops (Alamo City Guards)
Gould's Company, State Troops (Clarksville Light Infantry)
Hampton's Company, State Troops (Victoria Blues)
Teel's Company, State Troops (6 months)
Cavalry
1st Cavalry, State Troops (6 months)
2nd Cavalry, State Troops (6 months)
3rd Cavalry, State Troops (6 months)
4th Cavalry, State Troops (6 months)
1st Battalion, Cavalry, State Troops (6 months)
2nd Battalion, Cavalry, State Troops (6 months)
3rd Battalion, Cavalry, State Troops (6 months)
Doughty's Company, Cavalry, State Troops (Refugio Spies)
Graham's Company, Mounted Coast Guards, State Troops
Terry's Mounted Company (State Troops)
Artillery
Good's Company, State Troops, Artillery (Dallas Light Artillery)
Frontier
Frontier Organization, Texas State Troops
Organized March 1, 1864, as a replacement for the Frontier Regiment (McCord's) (see below), transferred to Confederate service. The Frontier Organization contained all men liable for military service living in the 59 frontier counties. They were formed into three districts of together 4,000 men (one-fourth of the men, on a rotation basis, in service at any one time). The organization was in operation several months after the end of the war.[8]
A temporary field organization under William Saufley; formed in January 1864, for the defense of Galveston. Disbanded in March 1864; the companies returning to duty with their regiments.[9]
Mustered into service for three years in February 1863 as a replacement for the disbanded Frontier Regiment (Norris'). The new regiment was officially called the Mounted Regiment of Texas State Troops, later Mounted Regiment, Texas State Troops. The regiment was transferred to Confederate service on March 1, 1864 as the 46th Texas Cavalry (see above).[10][3]
Frontier Regiment (Norris')
Authorized by the Legislature on December 21, 1861 as a replacement for 1st (McCulloch's) Mounted Riflemen in frontier defense. Mustered into State service for one year in March and April 1862. Disbanded at the end of January 1863, by order of Governor Lubbock. It was replaced by a reorganized Frontier Regiment (McCord's).[10]