2nd Texas Infantry

[1stMS-Arty]

Checked *wiki order of battle for Chickasaw and there was a 2nd Texas Cavalry listed in Gen. S.D. Lee's provisional division....but 2nd Texas Cav and Inf are not the same so I looked on fold3 under unit information for the company Atchison was in (G, 2nd Texas Inf.) and found this......(He is apparently considering the fight with gunboats on the Yazoo as part of the battle)

*note- appaarently Atchison is correct and wiki is wrong...2nd Texas Infantry not Cavalry was part of S.D. Lee's command.

 

[1stMS-Arty]

and found this in OR vol 17 part 1 pages 684 and 685....

 

[CMWinkler]

Colonel Winkler's brother, Thomas Lewis Winkler, was a Private in Co. E of the 2nd.

 

[Vicksburger]

Anyone know about this? (Is it authentic?)

 

[AUG]

View attachment 156234 Anyone know about this? (Is it authentic?)

@TomP posted about it in this thread not long ago:

https://civilwartalk.com/threads/the-key-to-corinth-by-keith-rocco.136803/#post-1597916

 

[TomP]

@Vicksburger,
yes, this has been verified as the real deal.

 

[Vicksburger]

@Vicksburger,
yes, this has been verified as the real deal.

Wow that is like finding the Ark of the Covenant! I do recognize that name, William Christian, so unless some one has gone to the trouble of forging his signature, which I doubt, that lends a lot of credence to it. That (discovery) is one of the best things I have heard in the past month, otherwise full of bad news.

 

[J. D. Stevens]

Winfree saw a crowd of soldiers at one of the buildings used as a headquarters, and learned that discharges were being freely handed out to all who requested them. The clerks soon ran out of printed discharge forms

My family still has the Honorable Discharge my great grandfather, J. A. Stevens of Likens' 35th Tx Cav (Dismtd) received on May 25,1865.

Thanks for posting the information clearing up the statement about the mutiny. In my book, Ashbel Smith is overlooked by most historians. He was a bit of an eccentric, never married, studied medicine in France, and a Texas patriot. One of my favorite pieces in Joseph Chance's biography of Ashbel Smith was about being bitten on the foot by a rattlesnake. He treated it himself using a theory he had developed. He wrote specific orders for his attendant to follow once he lost consciousness from high fever and insisted there would be no deviation. After he recovered, Ashbel wrote and published a paper about treating snake bites which was highly acclaimed in medical circles across the nation.

 

[AndyHall]

My family still has the Honorable Discharge my great grandfather, J. A. Stevens of Likens' 35th Tx Cav (Dismtd) received on May 25,1865.

I would love to see a picture of that document.

Ashbel Smith also wrote a treatise on yellow fever. While he didn't understand that it was spread by mosquitoes, he was dead on target about ways to reduce its spread, including by general cleanup of the town and draining standing water.

 

[J. D. Stevens]

I would love to see a picture of that document.

I'm bringing a copy to the symposium tomorrow.

 

[Vicksburger]

What do you think is this authentic? (From an Ebay offering)

 

[Vicksburger]

@Vicksburger,
yes, this has been verified as the real deal.

Tom P: I came across this website which is offering the Second Texas Infantry flag for sale(?) I thought it was safe in a museum in Fort Worth. do you know anything about this? Here is a link to the website, scroll down the Confederate flags:https://palmbeachrarities.com/2020collections/

 

[James N.]

Tom P: I came across this website which is offering the Second Texas Infantry flag for sale(?) I thought it was safe in a museum in Fort Worth. do you know anything about this? Here is a link to the website, scroll down the Confederate flags:https://palmbeachrarities.com/2020collections/

From what I understand nothing in the Fort Worth museum is safe! It's actually in a suburb called White Settlement and they have knuckled under to racist calls for it to be closed. The collection's creator may well also have died, leaving the whole in limbo. The flags, ladies dresses, and some other items belong to the Texas chapter of the UDC but without the museum building they will no doubt return to storage somewhere.

 

[bdtex]

The collection's creator may well also have died, leaving the whole in limbo.

I hadn't heard that. I would think I would have if it were so.

 

[bdtex]

I thought it was safe in a museum in Fort Worth. do you know anything about this?

It was there in November 2019:

 

[James N.]

I hadn't heard that. I would think I would have if it were so.

Unfortunately I don't remember where I heard it - I wish you would check it out through your connections with the SCV and Hood's Brigade Association. I'd prefer it if I were wrong, but these days I doubt I am!

 

[Vicksburger]

It was there in November 2019:

View attachment 431772

Do you think that auction listing is legit? It seems like a historical artifact like that would go for much more than that. Maybe I'm biased of course. Seriously if you know someone with some bucks we ought to see if they can buy the darn thing. I hope I am wrong somehow. Do you know any civil war buff in Fort Worth we could check with?

 

[bdtex]

Do you know any civil war buff in Fort Worth we could check with?

Yes I do. Checking into it later.

 

[Vicksburger]

Yes I do. Checking into it later.

My contact in Texas said the owner of the museum had a serious car wreck a year ago but was still living. She didn't seem to think that they were having a fire sale so to speak. She was going to check with the higher ups at the organization she is a member of to see if they have any ability to consider buying it, but generally didn't think it likely. I just shake my head.

 

[bdtex]

My contact in Texas said the owner of the museum had a serious car wreck a year ago but was still living. She didn't seem to think that they were having a fire sale so to speak. She was going to check with the higher ups at the organization she is a member of to see if they have any ability to consider buying it, but generally didn't think it likely. I just shake my head.

My contact in Fort Worth told me earlier today that the museum owner had been seriously injured in a traffic accident in January 2020. That was news to me. The pandemic caused some loss of revenue in other business ventures too. The sale of that flag appears to be legit.