TENTH TEXAS CAVALRY TENTH TEXAS CAVALRY. The Tenth Texas Cavalry
Regiment was organized from the late summer to the early fall of
1861. Many of its members were recruited from the Texas counties
of Cherokee, Wood, Upshur, Smith, Rusk, Shelby, Panola, and Van
Zandt and the towns of Quitman and Tyler. The unit was organized
into ten companies and mustered into service in the Confederate
Army in October 1861. The Tenth Texas' first commander was
Matthew F. Locke. Its field commanders included James M. Barton
(lieutenant colonel), Washington de la F. Craig (major,
lieutenant colonel), Cullen R. Earp (lieutenant colonel,
colonel), Wiley B. Ector (major), and Hullum D. E. Redwine
(major). For the first few months of the war the Tenth Texas
served west of the Mississippi River in Texas, Arkansas, and
Louisiana as part of the Department of Texas. In April 1862 the
unit was dismounted and sent east of the Mississippi River where
it served for the remainder of the war. At this time, the unit
totaled 565 effectives in t