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Company D
- Corporal Ephraim P. Vardeman
- Private Jeremiah T. Vardeman
6th Regiment, Texas
Cavalry (Wharton, Stone's)
6th Cavalry Regiment
[also called 2nd Regiment] was organized with 1,150 men at Dallas,
Texas, in September, 1861. Many of the men were from Dallas, McKinney,
Waco, Austin, and Lancaster, and Bell County. The unit skirmished in the
Indian Territory, fought at Elkhorn Tavern, then moved wast of the
Mississippi River. It contained 803 effectives in the spring of 1862 and
was dismounted during the battles at
Corinth
and
Hatchie Bridge.
Here the regiment reported 148 killed, wounded, or missing. Assigned to
Ross' Brigade, it served with the Army of Tennessee during the Atlanta
Campaign, was active in Tennessee, and ended the war in Mississippi
attached to the Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and East Louisiana.
The field officers were Colonels Lawrence S. Ross, B. Warren Stone, and
Jack Wharton; Lieutenant Colonels John S. Griffith and Peter F. Ross;
and Robert M. White and Stephen B. Wilson.
Information compiled by David Vardiman
from the
National Park Service's
Sailors and Soldiers surname search database and
Jack Vardaman's narrative. |
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