Confederate Regiment

1st Texas Infantry

Commanding Officer on the Sharpsburg Campaign:
LCol. Philip A. Work

This Regiment's Chain of Command:
  Army - Army of Northern Virginia
  Corps - Longstreet's Command
  Division - Hood's Division
  Brigade - Hood's Brigade

Unit history

The men of the 1st Texas came from East Texas and Harris & Galveston Counties. Arriving piecemeal, all the men of the 1st TX arrived in Richmond, VA, by June 1, 1861, and were commanded by Colonel L. T. Wigfall.
Upon Wigfall's promotion [to Brigade command], Captain A. T. Rainey was voted as Colonel on January 2nd, 1862, P. A. Work as Lt. Colonel. Colonel Rainey was wounded at the Battle of Gaines' Mill [June 1862] and then Lt. Colonel Phillip A. Work was in command of the 1st TX.

On the Sharpsburg Campaign

Early on the 17th "the Texas Brigade counterattacked Hooker's 1st Corps as they pushed Jackson's men out of the Cornfield and down the Hagerstown Pike toward the Dunker Church. The Texans pressed the Yankees through the cornfield and to the northern edge of it where Anderson's Brigade of Meade's Union division was posted. After several volleys by Anderson's yankees, the 1st Texas fell back through the Cornfield to the West Woods. The 1st Texas left their flag, 8 color-bearers and 186 of their 226 men in the Cornfield. Their 82.6% casualties was the most of any regiment of either side during the War."
(quoted from the 1st Texas site)

See Lt Colonel Work's Sharpsburg casualty list of 22 September as published in the Galveston News of 1 November 1862.

Statistics

Initial Strength: 226; Total Casualties: 186;
Losses, % of Initial Strength: 82.7%

Maps Showing this Unit

Detail Map #1: Hookers First Corps Sweeps Down the Hagerstown Pike (5-7 am)
Detail Map #2: Hood's Division Retakes Miller's Cornfield (7-8 am)
Detail Map #15: The Charge of the 7th Maine at Piper's Farm (5-5:30 pm)

Battlefield Tablets for this Unit

Tablet #303: Longstreet's Command - 14 Sep, 9 PM to 15 Sep, 12 PM
Tablet #309: Hood's Division, Longstreet's Command - 14 Sep, 9 PM to 16 Sep, 11 PM
Tablet #327: Hood's Division, Longstreet's Command - 16 Sep, 2 PM to 16 Sep, 10 PM
Tablet #331: Wofford's Brigade, Hood's Division - 16 Sep, 6 PM to 16 Sep, 10 PM
Tablet #324: Wofford's Brigade, Hood's Division - 17 Sep, 7 AM to 17 Sep, 10 AM
Tablet #304: Longstreet's Command - 17 Sep, 7 AM to 17 Sep, 3 PM
Tablet #310: Hood's Division, Longstreet's Command - 17 Sep, 7 AM to 17 Sep, 9 AM

We have 228 individuals in the AotW database who were on the Maryland Campaign with this unit:

Co.	Rank	Name	Casualty?
A	Pvt	Armstrong, George W.	WIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Baker, Green	WIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Blackburn, Frank E.	WIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Brewer, T. E.	WIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Derrick, E. P.	WIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Epperson, Henry J.	WIA/POW 09/17
A	Pvt	Hempstead, Stephen	POW 09/17
A	Sgt	Hill, James C.	KIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Joiner, James	KIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Jones, C. D.	KIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Jones, Tom	KIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Lane, Benjamin R.	WIA 09/17
A	Corp	Malone, James K.	WIA 09/17
A	Pvt	McClendon, W. F.	WIA 09/17
A	Capt	Todd, George T.	WIA 09/17
A	Pvt	Whitaker, III, Willis Loundes	WIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Anderson, Milledge B.	WIA/POW 09/17
B	Sgt	Barfield, Gabriel Washington	WIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Bowling, Booker L.	WIA 09/17
B	Sgt	Butler, Charles W.	WIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Choate, Rufus Randolph	WIA 09/17
B	Corp	Dunham, C. R.	POW 09/17
B	Pvt	Johnson, George H.	WIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Pankey, W. O.	WIA 09/17
B	Lt	Shotwell, John I.	WIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Trenckmann, Adolph	KIA 09/17
B	Sgt	Victory, John	WIA 09/17
B	Pvt	Woodward, Samuel J.	WIA 09/17
C	Pvt	Gage, Granville L.	MWIA 09/17
C	Lt	Hoffman, F. L.	KIA 09/17
C	Pvt	McGee, Samuel Houston	WIA/POW 09/17
C	Pvt	McManus, G. W.	WIA/POW 09/17
C	Lt	Nadle, William B.	AWOL 09/16
C	Capt	Rice, David K.
C	Pvt	Stamper, William T.	WIA 09/17
C	Pvt	Watson, Charles	MWIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Bartlett, Daniel W.	WIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Brown, Edward B.	KIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Connally, J. R.	KIA 09/17
D	Capt	Connally, U. S.
D	Corp	Dickson, J. T.	WIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Dunklin, James P.	WIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Jackson, Walter C.	KIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Jackson, William R.	KIA 09/17
D	Pvt	McCoy, H. C.	WIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Miles, J. Foster	WIA 09/17
D	Sgt	Oliver, William Alexander Thompson	WIA 09/17
D	Sgt	Powell, E. C.	WIA 09/17
D	Sgt	Shropshire, J. Winkfield	WIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Therrell, Abe S.	KIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Thomas, Lucian W.	WIA 09/17
D	Sgt	Wood, A. J.	WIA 09/17
D	Pvt	Wood, Jack P.	WIA 09/17
E	Pvt	Brazeal, W. Samuel	WIA/POW 09/17
E	Pvt	Campbell, J. D.	WIA 09/17
E	Pvt	Campbell, WIlliam M.	KIA 09/17
E	Pvt	Clark, Robert L.	MWIA 09/17
E	Pvt	Ewing, E. M.	POW 09/15
E	Pvt	Fields, C. H.	WIA 09/17
E	Pvt	Gillett, Marcus	WIA 09/17
E	Pvt	Heard, George F.	WIA 09/17
E	Pvt	Hendrick, James H.	WIA 09/17
E	Pvt	Marks, Joseph
E	Pvt	Marshall, Robert J.	WIA 09/17
E	Lt	Perry, Clinton E.	KIA 09/17
E	Pvt	Perry, Eugene Osceola	WIA 09/17
E	Corp	Perry, Howard Earle	KIA 09/17
E	Pvt	Perry, Sidney Franklin	WIA 09/17
E	Pvt	Rudder, Joseph F.	WIA/POW 09/17
E	Sgt	Smith, John W.	WIA 09/17
E	Pvt	Watson, Samuel T.	WIA 09/17
E	Lt	Webb, Berry W.	WIA 09/17
E	Pvt	Willingham, T. W.	WIA 09/17
E	Lt	Woodson, Charles	WIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Engelking, Sigismund	WIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Felps, Oscar	MWIA 09/17
F	Sgt	Hanks, Amos Gates	WIA/POW 09/17
F	Pvt	Holmes, William Franklin	WIA 09/17
F	Sgt	Perryman, James E.	WIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Rountree, W. A.	WIA 09/17
F	Lt	Runnels, Perry	KIA 09/17
F	Pvt	Scott, William F.	MWIA 09/17
F	Capt	Willson, Samuel Andrew	WIA 09/17
G	Sgt	Aspley, Matthew James	KIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Blackshear, Seaborn Quincy	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Bottoms, Smith	KIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Butler, Richard	KIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Cantley, Z. W.	MWIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Cone, John	KIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Corder, James M.	MWIA 09/17
G	Sgt	Files, Manly M.	KIA 09/17
G	Corp	Hallum, Basil Alexander	KIA 09/17
G	Lt	Jemison, Elbert Sevier	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Knox, Marion Anderson	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Mathews, James W.	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	McFarland, Calvin R.	KIA 09/17
G	Corp	Mynatt, W. Park	POW 09/17
G	Pvt	Posey, A. J.	KIA 09/17
G	Lt	Rose, Thomas Jefferson	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Ward, James	WIA 09/17
G	Pvt	Watts, Frederick Julius	WIA 09/17
G	Capt	Woodward, John R.
H	Pvt	Anderson, Anton	KIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Bolton, Canada Sevier	WIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Counts, John A.	WIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Culpepper, George Washington	WIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Derrough, William Gary	WIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Embry, Felix M.	WIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Evans, Leander Lusk	WIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Ezell, Eldridge Franklin	WIA 09/17
H	Lt	Gaston, Robert Hugh	KIA 09/17
H	Capt	Gaston, William Henry
H	Pvt	Goble, B. W.	AWOL 09/16
H	Pvt	Herrington, John Marion	WIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Hickman, Haywood G.	WIA 09/17
H	Sgt	Hollingsworth, Joseph Coleman	MWIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Hollingsworth, Nathan
H	Pvt	Hollingsworth, William	KIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Jones, James Ralphed	WIA 09/17
H	Pvt	King, J. C.	WIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Marshall, James H.	KIA 09/17
H	Pvt	McBride, Caleb	WIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Nichols, John B.
H	Lt	Stevenson, John
H	Pvt	Strother, A. C.	MWIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Tippen, James G.	KIA 09/17
H	Pvt	Williams, William L.	WIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Aldrich, Albert Augustus	WIA 09/17
I	Sgt	Bayrue, W. M.	KIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Berryman, Newton M.	WIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Boone, Thomas A.	WIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Box, Felix M.	KIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Congleton, Allen A.	KIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Cook, Thomas J.	KIA 09/17
I	Capt	Cotton, Richard W.	MWIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Fitts, Levi J.	KIA 09/17
I	Corp	Hale, Drury H.	KIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Harris, John	POW 09/15
I	Pvt	Harwell, John S.	MWIA 09/17
I	Pvt	House, Wiley A.	MWIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Jones, Henry N.	WIA 09/17
I	Sgt	Mitchell, Russell Crawford	WIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Patrick, H. C.	WIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Payne, William M.	KIA 09/17
I	Corp	Pritchard, William D.	WIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Reeves, Malichiah	WIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Rudicil, Joseph	WIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Sheridan, John Henry	WIA 09/17
I	Lt	Wooters, John H.	WIA 09/17
I	Pvt	Youngblood, Michael	WIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Bryan, William M.	POW 09/14
K	Pvt	Day, Jr., Stephen Mings	WIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Gray, William W.	WIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Hail, Jesse M.	KIA 09/17
K	Corp	Hanks, Orlando Thacker	WIA 09/17
K	Capt	Massey, John Harmon	WIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Miller, Edward G.	WIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Mosely, Henry E.	WIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Noble, J. O.	WIA 09/17
K	Lt	Patton, Samuel F.	KIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Quinn, William O.	WIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Ruddell, Isaac Newton	WIA 09/17
K	Lt	Waterhouse, James	MWIA 09/17
K	Pvt	Wilson, Andrew J.	POW 09/17
L	Pvt	Alsbrook, Joseph	WIA 09/17
L	Pvt	Barbee, Wilson J.
L	Pvt	Bass, George	KIA 09/17
L	Capt	Bedell, William A.	WIA 09/17
L	Pvt	Blessing, Solomon Thomas	WIA/POW 09/17
L	Sgt	Branard, George Albert
L	Sgt	Carpenter, Stephen A.	KIA 09/17
L	Pvt	Coffee, John	POW 09/17
L	Pvt	Cohen, Henry	WIA 09/17
L	Pvt	Frank, Jacob	KIA 09/17
L	Pvt	Garrity, Michael	POW 09/17
L	Pvt	Gillis, John P.	WIA 09/17
L	Pvt	Halleck, Charles B.	WIA 09/17
L	Corp	Hanson, John M.	WIA 09/17
L	Pvt	Hoskins, William	WIA 09/17
L	Corp	Jacoblef, Robert	KIA 09/17
L	Pvt	Jones, Austin W.	WIA/POW 09/17
L	Pvt	Kingsley, Charles H.	WIA 09/17
L	Pvt	Lake, Thomas W.C.
L	Pvt	Leach, William	WIA 09/17
L	Pvt	Lovelock, William H.	AWOL 09/15
L	Sgt	Mahoney, John P.
L	Pvt	McGar, Henry Bates	WIA 09/17
L	Pvt	Nagle, James	WIA 09/17
L	Pvt	Rourke, John O.	WIA 09/17
L	Pvt	Schultz, Henry	WIA 09/17
L	Pvt	Schwarting, Frederick	WIA 09/17
L	Pvt	Smith, John M.	WIA 09/17
L	Lt	Thompson, James C. S.	KIA 09/17
L	Pvt	Welch, James	WIA 09/17
L	Pvt	Young, William	WIA 09/17
L	Corp	Zimmer, William	KIA 09/17
M	Capt	Ballenger, Howard	WIA/POW 09/17
M	Pvt	Bass, James	WIA/POW 09/17
M	Corp	Bennett, Richmond Oliver	WIA 09/17
M	Pvt	Boon, Joshua	KIA 09/17
M	Pvt	Bowman, T. J.	KIA 09/17
M	Pvt	Capps, Boleware J.	POW 09/15
M	Pvt	Carlton, John R.	WIA 09/17
M	Pvt	Day, James	WIA 09/17
M	Pvt	Dunham, M. A.	WIA 09/17
M	Pvt	Eaves, E. B.	WIA 09/17
M	Pvt	Evans, Jesse Turner	WIA 09/17
M	Sgt	Evans, W. C.	WIA 09/17
M	Pvt	Goodson, William J.	WIA 09/17
M	Pvt	Hamilton, David Henry
M	Pvt	Jones, James Allen	POW 09/12
M	Pvt	Lancaster, John	MWIA 09/17
M	Pvt	McBride, Oliver	WIA 09/17
M	Pvt	Motes, J. M.	WIA 09/17
M	Pvt	Murray, C.	WIA 09/17
M	Pvt	Pinson, Harvey H.	POW 09/16
M	Pvt	Pope, Edmund	WIA 09/17
M	Sgt	Roach, Shadrack D.	KIA 09/17
M	Lt	Sanford, William Thomas P.	MWIA 09/17
M	Pvt	Stewart, H. Charles	MWIA 09/17
M	Pvt	Story, James W.	KIA 09/17
M	Pvt	Sweat, J. Henry	WIA 09/17
M	Pvt	Townes, William J.	WIA 09/17
M	Pvt	Walter, Aaron	WIA 09/17
M	Pvt	Wisby, Vondra J.	KIA 09/17
F&S	Sgt	Bronaugh, D. B.
F&S	Maj	Dale, Matthew	KIA 09/17
F&S	LCol	Work, Philip Alexander

* If there's a symbol in the Details column ...

- We have a picture for this person
- We have details beyond name and rank
Click on their last name to see more