35th (Likens') Texas Cavalry Regiment

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35th (Likens') Texas Cavalry Regiment
ActiveOctober 1863 – June 1865
CountryFlag of the Confederate States of America (1865).svg  Confederate States of America
AllegianceFlag of the Confederate States of America (1865).svg  Confederate States of America, Flag of Texas.svg  Texas
BranchBattle flag of the Confederate States of America.svg  Confederate States Army
Type Cavalry
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James B. Likens
Texas Cavalry Regiments (Confederate)
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The 35th (Likens') Texas Cavalry Regiment was a unit of mounted volunteers from Texas that fought in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. The regiment was formed by consolidating Likens' Texas Cavalry Battalion and Burns' Texas Cavalry Battalion [1] in October 1863. James B. Likens was appointed to lead the new unit, which was in a brigade first led by Hamilton P. Bee and later by Arthur P. Bagby Jr.. It fought at Mansfield and Pleasant Hill in 1864. The regiment moved to Beaumont, Texas, in early 1865, and surrendered there in June 1865. [2]

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  1. Oates 1994, p. 177.
  2. NPS 2022.

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