2nd Texas Infantry Regiment

2nd Texas Infantry Regiment
Active 1861 – 1865
Country  Confederate States of America
Branch  Confederate States Army
Type Regiment
Role Infantry
Nickname(s) 2nd Texas Sharpshooters
Engagements

American Civil War

Commanders
Notable
commanders		 John Creed Moore
Noble L. McGinnis
William P. Rogers
Ashbel Smith

The 2nd Regiment, Texas Infantry was an infantry regiment from Texas that served with Confederate States Army in the American Civil War. The regiment was organized by the then Captain John Creed Moore who would become the regiment's 1st Colonel. Many of the men were from Houston and Galveston.[1]

Notable battles that the regiment has been involved in include the Battle of Shiloh, the Second Battle of Corinth, and the Siege of Vicksburg.[2]

Second Battle of Corinth

Confederate dead lay gathered at the bottom of the parapet of Battery Robinett on the day after the Battle of Corinth. Colonel William P. Rogers of the 2nd Texas (on the very left).

The regiment assaulted Battery Robinett, a redan protected by a five-foot ditch, sporting three 20-pounder Parrott rifles commanded by Lt. Henry Robinett. Colonel William P. Rogers, a Mexican–American War comrade of President Jefferson Davis, was among those killed in the charge.[3] Roberts seized his colors to keep them from falling again and jumped a five-foot ditch, leaving his dying horse and assaulted the ramparts of the battery. When canister shot killed him, he was the fifth bearer of his colors to fall that day.[4]

Siege of Vicksburg

Union assault at Vicksburg on May 22, 1863

Union assault at Vicksburg on May 22, 1863

The regiment was distinguished for its defense of a crescent-shaped fortification, which came to be known as the Second Texas Lunette. The fortification was located in the center of the Vicksburg line of defense constructed to guard the Baldwin Ferry Road. The lunette was the subject of tremendous artillery bombardment and repeated Union assaults directed against the lunette on May 22, 1863.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "2nd Regiment, Texas Infantry". National Park Service. Retrieved 26 May 2016.
  2. ↑ "2nd Texas Infantry Regiment". Civil War Reference. Retrieved 24 June 2011.
  3. ↑ Welcher, pp. 556–57; Cozzens, pp. 253–63, 267; Woodworth, p. 233; Kennedy, p. 131; Korn, p. 41; Eicher, pp. 377–78; Lamers, pp. 151–54.
  4. ↑ Cozzens, p. 255. Eicher, p. 278, states that is one of only a very few Civil War photographs that show an important officer deceased on the field. It is sometimes erroneously reported that Rogers's second-in-command, Colonel Lawrence Sullivan Ross, lies beside him. In fact, Ross went on to become a general and later the governor of Texas. He died in 1898.
  5. ↑ "2nd Texas Lunette". National Park Service. Retrieved 26 May 2016.

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