9th BRIGADE TEXAS MILITIA
& TEXAS STATE TROOPS
A great deal of confusion arises over the 9th Brigade. Many people confuse it
with the 9th Texas Infantry organized by Sam Bell Maxey. In the service
records of these men the letters TM and TST indicates Texas Militia and
Texas State Troops. Records with these indicators are what confuse most
beginners into believing these men were a part of the 9th Texas Infantry
Confederate States Army. They were not. The two units were entirely
different.
Texas was divided into
Military Districts to provide for local defense. Hopkins
and Lamar counties were the 9th Military District. Each district was ordered
by law to form a Brigade of volunteers within its borders. These volunteers
were not allowed to leave the state as a Military fighting unit. Thus they were
home guards only. I have yet to find an occasion were this Brigade was
brought together for a battle with Indians or any other threat to the two
counties. As a matter of fact it is highly unlikely that the Brigade was ever in
one single location in its full compliment. Mostly, each voting Precinct (or
beat) enlisted the men of their area, got together to elect officers, drilled for a
few hours and then went home. There is very little documentation of the
activities of the Brigade, all of which is in the Brigade Correspondence section
below. The commanding General of the Brigade was hard pressed to keep his
rolls updated because many of the men enlisted in regular army and cavalry
units at different times. In the beginning there were over 2000 men on the
muster rolls of the 9th Brigade. It took only a few weeks before this was
reduced to 500 or less when most of the men joined regular troops and went off
to the war in the east. The Brigade was left with men mostly too old to fight or
enlist in the regular army.
Biographies
Brigade Correspondence
All Enlistments in the 9th Brigade Texas Militia
Company for Hopkins Co. Beat No. 1 (no records survive or are available)
Company for Hopkins Co. Beat No. 2
Company for Hopkins Co. Beat No. 3
Company for Hopkins Co. Beat No. 4
Company for Hopkins Co. Beat No. 5
Company for Hopkins Co. Beat No. 6
Company for Hopkins Co. Beat No. 7
Company for Hopkins Co. Beat No. 8
Company for Hopkins Co. Beat No. 9
Company for Hopkins Co. Beat No. 10
Company for Lamar Co. Beat No. 1
Company for Lamar Co. Beat No. 2
Company for Lamar Co. Beat No. 3
Company for Lamar Co. Beat No. 4
Company for Lamar Co. Beat No. 5 (no records survive or are available)
Company for Lamar Co. Beat No. 6
Company for Lamar Co. Beat No. 7
Company for Lamar Co. Beat No. 8
Company for Lamar Co. Beat No. 9
Company for Lamar Co. Beat No. 10
Daniel's Lamar Artillery
Hill's Lamar Cavalry No. 2
Maxey's Lamar Rifles
Milton Webb's Mounted Volunteers Lamar County
Milton Webb's Lamar Cavalry
Pee Dee Company Lamar County
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