The Yankee Invasion of Texas

Index

index 1st Texas Artillery Regiment, 14 1st Texas Cavalry (Confederate), 36, 39, 51, 61–62, 70–71, 73, 119 1st Texas U.S. Cavalry (Union), 17, 31, 34, 41, 82–83, 91, 98, 101, 107, 111, 115 1st Engineers of the Corps d’ Afrique, 26, 40 1st Missouri Light, 30 2nd Engineers of the Corps d’ Afrique, 40 2nd Texas Infantry, 61, 70, 72, 74–75 2nd Texas Mounted Rifles, 74 2nd Texas Cavalry (Confederate), 95, 98 2nd Texas Cavalry (Union), 34, 41, 82, 84, 91, 98, 105, 125, 127–28, 130–31 2nd Wisconsin, 28 3rd Texas Infantry, 27, 61 IV Army Corps, 138–39 4th Arizona Cavalry. See 4th Texas Cavalry, Arizona Brigade. 4th Texas Cavalry (Arizona Brigade), 95–96, 99–101 4th Texas Infantry, 71 7th Michigan, 30 8th Indiana, 26, 30 8th Texas Infantry, 26–28, 78 XIII Army Corps, 16, 26, 28, 40–41, 44, 73, 81, 85, 87, 92, 145 13th Maine, 26–27, 36, 72 14th Rhode Island of the Corps d’ Afrique, 82 15th Maine, 26–27, 29, 69, 73 16th Infantry of the Corps d’ Afrique, 40 18th Indiana, 30 XIX Army Corps, 14, 31, 92 19th Iowa Infantry, 17, 23, 44, 83, 88, 103 20th Iowa Infantry, 26, 63, 66, 74, 87 20th Wisconsin, 17, 83, 86 21st Iowa Infantry, 44, 76 22nd Iowa Infantry, 76, 80, 82 23rd Iowa Infantry, 84 XXV Army Corps, 138 25th Corps, 134 26th Iowa, 26 32nd Texas Cavalry, 51–52, 59–60, 62, 75, 97 33rd Texas Calvary, 16, 20–21, 35, 46, 49, 76–77, 84 33rd Illinois Infantry, 30, 44, 87 34th Indiana, 107, 115, 125, 128–30, 132 34th Iowa Volunteer Infantry, 17, 26, 29, 39, 86 Note: Photographs, maps and illustrations are noted in the index as italicized and bolded. Newspapers are noted in italics. Union and Confederate regiments are listed at the start of the index, in numerical order. 35th Texas Cavalry, 62 37th Illinois (The Fremont Rifles), 19, 31–33 38th Iowa Infantry, 83 48th Ohio, 87 62nd Colored Infantry, 105, 107, 113, 115, 125–26, 128–31 67th Indiana, 39, 87 77th Illinois Infantry, 87 81st Colored Infantry, 107, 113, 115 91st Illinois Infantry, 107, 111, 113 94th Illinois Volunteers, 19, 89 96th Ohio, 39 99th Illinois, 80 108th U.S. Colored Infantry, 140 Adams, Charles Francis, 9 amnesty. See general order #14. Antietam, 16 Appomattox, 123–25 Aransas Bay, 48 Aransas Pass, 16, 54 Army of northern Virginia, 125 Austin State Gazette, 53, 93 Bagdad, Mexico: as port of entry, 3, 5– 6, 109, 111, 125, 140–41 Baird, S.B., 95–96 Banks, Nathaniel P.: as commander of the Department of the Gulf, 10, 12, 13, 17, 23, 25–28, 33, 40–44, 53– 54, 61, 66, 69–70, 75–77, 80, 85, 92, 105, 132–33, 143–44, 146–47; 1st Texas invasion, 14; 2nd Texas invasion, 14–16; 3rd Texas invasion (Rio Grande expedition), 15–16, 148; intentions of Texas invasion, 11; relations with Henry Halleck, 12–14, 18, 38–39, 69, 148 Barre’s Landing (Port Barre), 15 Barrett, Theodore H., 125–29, 131–32 battles: of the Civil War in the Rio Grande Valley, 133 Bayou Bourbeau, 15 Bee, Hamilton P.: as commander in Brownsville, 9, 16, 22–23, 27, 53, 55, 83–84, 104, 114, 138, 147; as commander of Fort Brown, 19–20, 46–49; in Laredo and Eagle Pass, 51–52, 58–61, 70 Benavides, Cristobal, 49, 98, 102 Benavides, Refugio, 49, 98–100, 105 Benavides, Santos, 49–51, 93, 95, 97–99 Black, Charles, 19 Black, John, 31–33 Blair, Francis P., 117–18 Blucher, Felix, 64, 97–98 Boca Chica, Texas, 18–19, 40, 113, 115, 126–27, 130 Bradfute, W.R., 28, 30, 55, 59 Branson, David, 126–27 Brazos Santiago: as depot for lower Texas coast, 40, 107; French involvement , 112; as location for the Rio Grande expedition, 16–18, 20– 21, 23, 26, 118–19; regarding looting during Rio Grande expedition, 65–66; as military post, 114–15, 125–32, 134, 138–39, 148; as retreat center after evacuation of Brownsville, 103, 105, 116 Broadwell, W.A., 46 Brown, E.B., 125, 132–34, 138 Brown, Jacob, 19 Brown, S.S., 117 Brownsville, Texas: capture of; 22–23, 34, 42; as center of commercial activity , 3, 19–20; Confederate evacuation of, 19–22; fall of, 21–22, 44, 47–50, 53; Federal occupation of, 19–20, 22–23, 25, 38...