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Brief History of Texas Confederate 6th Cavalry (Wharton, Stone's): The 6th Texas Cavalry Regiment was a unit of mounted volunteers that fought in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. The regiment fought at Chustenahlah in 1861. The following year the unit fought at Pea Ridge, First Corinth, Second Corinth, Hatchie's Bridge, and Holly Springs. The 6th Texas Cavalry participated in the fighting at Thompson's Station in 1863, the Atlanta campaign, and the Franklin-Nashville Campaign in 1864. The regiment formally surrendered to Union forces in May 1865 and its remaining soldiers were paroled. Called Ross', Stone's, Wharton's and Griffith's Regiment, this collection of Texas Horsemen earned a place in history. The regiment was organized in north Dallas at the fair grounds and trained in an area south of Dallas, Texas called Camp Bartow. Many of the companies came already organized from Ranger or County Militia, and others were filled out by enlistments. One of the most illustrious members enlisted as a private and rose to brigadier general. He was Lawrence Sullivan "Sul" Ross a future governor of Texas and President of Texas AM University. Two of the members made brigadier general and two became governors. When the unit was surrendered on May 4th, 1865, at Jackson, Mississippi it only had about 200 men remaining. The Muster rolls of the unit showed over 1150 soldiers in ten companies and a Field Staff (headquarters) in 1861. Records also show the unit was also called the 2nd Texas Cavalry but this error is probably related to Colonel B. Warren Stone who came back to Texas in the summer of 1862 and raised a second unit which also bore his name. When B. Warren Stone led the regiment into Indian Territory during the move to Arkansas in October 1861, and the units trained as they marched. Lt. Col. Griffith was given command of a detachment which fought Indians at ChustoTalasah. Stone commanded at Pea Ridge and Corinth I, but by May, Sul Ross had been elected Colonel and Stone was on the way back to Texas. Ross commanded the regiment at Corinth II and Hatchie Bridge, Griffith was in command for Holly Springs, and by the time the unit moved into Tennessee in the spring of 1862, Jack Wharton was commanding and Ross was acting as brigade commander. After the unit went back to Mississippi in 1863, Wharton had morale problems and almost a mutiny. Finally he resigned command and Peter Ross commanded the regiment for the rest of the war. Lt. Col. John Griffith engineered a brilliant raid to Holly Springs, Mississippi, in December 1862, and captured several million dollars of material and along with a raid General Nathan Bedford Forest in Tennessee cause General Grant to regroup at Memphis and added almost a year to the war. Following the raid Griffith's health failed and he returned to Texas. Almost a year later he was promoted to brigadier general over a district in Texas by the governor. Under Colonel Peter F. Ross the unit was in continuous contact for more than 100 days on the flank of General Joseph Johnston's Army in Sul Ross' Brigade and Walker's Division. Their opponents were cavalries of General Sherman's Army. They fought in the Battles of Rome, Dallas, New Hope Church, Kenasaw Mountain, and went with Hood's Army into Tennessee. During 1862. 1863 they went from 1000 to 600 men with disease causing more losses than wounds or desertions. In the next two year's more were lost to battle and desertion. Battle took the larger number. The unit fought bravely and on many occasions victoriously in a delaying action toward Atlanta. They were said to have been one of the most dependable regiments in the Army, but then lacked discipline and were extremely rough. This comment could have described any Ranger unit of that time frame.
William B.
