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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 12. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), A sketch of Debray's Twenty-Sixth regiment of Texas cavalry. (search)
ptain Owen's Company E, Montgomery and Washington counties. Captain Menard's Company F, from Galveston and Liberty counties. Captain Atchison's company, from Fort Bend county, composed of one-year men, was also accepted in the service and became Company G. These seven companies were organized into a battalion under the command of Major Samuel Boyer Davis, who, being at the same time Assistant Adjutant-General at District headquarters, soon resigned his lineal rank. On the 7th of December, 1861, Major X. B. Debray, of the Second regiment of Texas infantry, was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel Commanding, and Captain J. J. Myers, Major of the battalion. Then the work of disciplining and drilling was actively entered upon, and in a short time the battalion assumed the leading rank, in point of instruction and discipline, among the troops stationed on Galveston Island. In January, 1862, orders were received to raise three more companies for the purpose of completing a regiment.