Texas Cavalry in the Civil War - Polignac's Texas Brigade - 1964 - Confederate

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POLIGNAC'S TEXAS BRIGADE
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By Alwyn Barr
Texas Gulf Coast Historical Soc. , 1964 - first edition
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Condition : Light soiling to covers,
inside very occasional foxing - mostly to first few pages.
Former owner bookplate in front.  Overall very good.
72 pages with 10 maps / portraits.
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French-born Camille Armand Jules Marie, Prince de Polignac, served as a General
in the Confederate Army.  Known to his men as "Prince Pole-cat," Polignac was
part of Beauregard's and Bragg's staff prior to being given the rank of
Brigadier General in 1863.  He took command of Texas troops, mostly cavalry,
and served well.  In March of 1865 he was sent to Mexico to try and convince
Napoleon III to intervene on behalf of the Confederacy.  He arrived too late to do
so, and after the War ended he returned home to France.  When he died in 1913,
he was the last surviving Major General of the Confederacy.
For additional information on Major General Polignac -
please continue reading below my shipping details.
Polignac's Texas Brigade consisted primarily of Texas Cavalry,
and took part in the defeat of the Union "Red River Campaign" in 1864.
This is a first edition printing
- not the 1988 reprint !
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From The Texas State Historical Society Website :
POLIGNAC'S BRIGADE
. Col. Robert H. Taylor's Twenty-second, Col. Trezevant C. Hawpe's Thirty-first, and Col. Almerine M. Alexander's Thirty-fourth Texas Cavalry regiments were raised in the winter of 1861 and the spring of 1862 in North Texas. In the spring and summer of 1862 they were ordered into Indian Territory and Arkansas, where they were organized into a brigade with some Indian regiments under Col. Douglas H. Cooper. In the fall of 1862 the brigade fought at Shirley's Ford and at Newtonia, Missouri, before being driven back into Arkansas, where they were dismounted for service as infantry. The brigade was joined by Col. Thomas Coke Bass's Twentieth Texas Cavalry, served under several commanders, and fought at Prairie Grove, Arkansas, in the late fall and winter of 1862. In January 1863 the Fifteenth Texas Infantry under Col. Joseph Warren Speight joined the brigade, which marched through snow back to Texas under Speight's command, leaving the Twentieth Texas in Indian Territory.
In the spring of 1863 the brigade was sent to Louisiana, where the Twenty-second and Thirty-fourth were retrained as infantry, while the Fifteenth and the Thirty-first were joined by the Eleventh Texas Battalion in skirmishes and the battles of Stirling's Plantation and Bayou Bourbeau. In the fall of 1863 the brigade was reunited under Gen. Camille de Polignac, with the addition of the Seventeenth Texas Consolidated Dismounted Cavalry and the later loss of the Eleventh Texas Battalion. The brigade skirmished at Vidalia and Harrisonburg, Louisiana, in early 1864 before joining Gen. Richard Taylor's army to defeat federal forces in the Red River campaign in April and May. Polignac became division commander after the battle of Mansfield and was succeeded by several brigade commanders, including Robert Dillard Stone, who was killed at Yellow Bayou, Wilburn Hill King, and Richard E. Harrison. In the fall of 1864 the brigade moved into Arkansas and then back to Texas, where it disbanded in May 1865.
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Alwyn Barr,
Polignac's Texas Brigade
, Texas Gulf Coast Historical Association Publication Series 8.1 (November 1964). Robert S. Weddle,
Plow-Horse Cavalry: The Caney Creek Boys of the Thirty-Fourth Texas
(Austin: Madrona, 1974).
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