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Regiments (Game Clans) / 4th Texas Infantry Regiment - Companies A, B, C, D, F, I, and Rowans Battery

« on: March 25, 2019, 06:31:26 am »

Welcome to the 4th Texas Infantry Regiment

The 4th Texas Infantry Regiment is a full member of Hood's Brigade together with the 1st Texas, 5th Texas, and 3rd Arkansas

The Fourth Texas Infantry was one of the three Texas Civil War regiments in the Texas Brigade of Gen. Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. In 1861 Governor Edward Clark established a camp of instruction on the San Marcos River in Hays County. The first units that later formed the Fourth Texas Infantry enlisted there in April 1861. Originally the Texans planned to enlist for a period of one year, but after the outbreak of war at Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, the Confederate government announced that it would accept only regiments enlisted for the duration of the war. In July 1861 twenty companies of Texas infantry were transferred to a camp near Harrisburg and promptly shipped to Virginia. Soon after their arrival in Richmond the Texas units were officially organized into regiments, on September 30, 1861. The ten companies that made up the Fourth Texas were Company A, the Hardeman Rifles, recruited in Gonzales County; Company B, the Tom Green Rifles, Travis County; Company C, the Robertson Five Shooters, Robertson County; Company D, the Guadalupe Rangers, Guadalupe County; Company E, the Lone Star Guards, McLennan County; Company F, the Mustang Greys, Bexar County; Company G, the Grimes County Greys; Company H, the Porter Guards, Walker County; Company I, the Navarro Rifles, Navarro County; and Company K, the Sandy Point Mounted Rifles, Henderson County.

Throughout its existence 1,343 men were assigned to the Fourth Texas Infantry. Of that number 256 (19 percent) were killed or mortally wounded in battle. Another 486 men (35.9 percent) were wounded, many more than once, for the total number of wounds suffered by the regiment in four years of fighting amounted to 606. The total number of battle casualties suffered by the Fourth Texas Infantry was 909 (67.7 percent). The number of prisoners lost by the regiment was 162 (12 percent). Of the regiment, 161 died of diseases (11.9 percent), 251 (18 percent) were discharged due to sickness, wounds, etc., and 51 deserted (3 percent). At the time of its surrender the Fourth Texas mustered only fifteen officers and 143 men. Despite such heavy losses, or perhaps because of them, the Fourth Texas Infantry and its parent Texas Brigade won a reputation as one of the hardest fighting and most reliable units in the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia.

Regimental Organization

Commanding Officer: Lieutenant Colonel Drax
Executive Officer: Major Broos
Sergeant Major: Sergeant Major Khan Solaris

A Company Commander:        Captain Anderson
B Company Commander:        Captain William Montgomery
C Company Commander:        Captain Snipe
D Company Commander:        Major Broos
F Company Commander:         Captain Turansky
H Company Commander:        Captain Severus
I  Company (HQ) Commander: Lieutenant Colonel Drax
D Battery Commander:             1st Lieutenant Dab201

Hood's Brigade Organization

          Hood's Brigade: Brigadier General Phillip Work
               18th Georgia Regiment (not formed)
               1st Texas Regiment: LTC Labelle
               4th Texas Regiment: LTC Drax
               5th Texas Regiment: (organizing)
               3rd Arkansas Regiment: CPT Wilson
               Hampton's Legion (South Carolina): (currently not affiliated)
               German Artillery (South Carolina): (currently not affiliated)
               Palmetto Artillery (South Carolina): (organizing)
               Rowans Artillery (North Carolina): (1stLt Dab201)