18th TEXAS INFANTRY - CIVIL WAR
18th Texas Infantry
Company B, men from Rusk and Marion Counties
Captain R.Z.Buckner
1st Lieut. W.T.Davenport
2nd Lieut. R.Beaty
2nd Lieut H.F. O'Neil
Company D, men from Jefferson and Marion Counties
Captain John K.Cocke
1st Lieut. G.W.Martin
2nd Lieut. J.W.Gillian
2nd Lieut. J.H.Bonner
The 18th Tx Infantry spent its entire career within the Trans-Mississippi Department. During late 1862 a detachment of the unit was temporarily mounted. This detachment was ordered south of the Rio Grande, into Texas, where a large herd of cattle had been purchased for the Confederacy. The detachment brought these cattle back across the Rio Grande to central Texas.
The 18th Infantry participated in more than twenty various
type engagemants during its career . June 7,
1863-- Actions, Milliken's Bend and Youngs Point, Louisiana --Our loss in this engagement
was 44 killed, 130 wounded and 10 missing. Total casualties, 184, including 2 officers
killed and 10 wounded. The loss of the enemy numbered about 800, including the number of
negros that were drowned in the Mississippi River, in undertaking to swim a transport that
was lying at the apposite bank of the river.
Source: Confederate Research Center, Hillsboro, Texas.
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