1st Texas Volunteer Infantry

1st Texas Volunteer Infantry (1898-1899) - Organized and mustered into the service of the United States at Austin, Tex., May 1O and 12, 1898, with 46 officers and 956 enlisted men.

• Assignments:
  • Assigned to Third Brigade, First Division, Fourth Army Corps, May 21
  • Transferred to First Brigade, First Division, Seventh Army Corps, June 25

• Movements:
  • Left Austin May 20; arrived at Mobile, Ala., May 21
  • Left Mobile, Ala., June 22; arrived at Miami, Fla., June 24
  • Left Miami August 8; arrived at Jacksonville, Fla., August 9
  • Left Jacksonville October 22; arrived at Savannah, Ga., October 23
  • Two battalions sailed from Savannah on steamship "Mobile" December 24; arrived at Habana, Cuba, December 27
  • One battalion sailed on steamship "Michigan" December 23; arrived at Habana, Cuba, December 26
  • Two battalions sailed from Habana on steamship "Kilpatrick" March 25, 1899; arrived at Galveston, Tex., April 2
  • One battalion sailed from Habana on steamship "Florida" March 25; arrived at Galveston, Tex., April 2

Mustered out of the service of the United States at Galveston, Tex., April 18, 1899, with 46 officers and 822 enlisted men. Casualties while in service: Officers-died of disease, 1. Enlisted men-died of disease, 14; killed by accident, 1; deserted, 15.

From:

• Correspondence Relating to the War with Spain, Center for Military History, U.S. Army, Vol 1
  • The Organization of the Army during the Spanish-American War, page 509
  • Organization of Volunteers, page 581

See Also:

• Spanish American War
• Spanish American War Regiments
• Spanish American War Camps