THIRTEENTH TEXAS CAVALRY THIRTEENTH TEXAS CAVALRY. The
Thirteenth Texas Cavalry Regiment was organized in the winter of
1861 at Crockett, Texas, and mustered into service at Camp
Burnett in Houston County near Crockett, Texas, on February 22,
1862. The original field officers included: Col. John H.
Burnett, Maj. Charles R. Beatty, Lt. Col. Anderson F. Crawford,
and Maj. Elias T. Seale. The unit was composed of ten companies
that included men who came primarily from Anderson, Angelina,
Cherokee, Leon, Henderson, Houston, Hunt, Jasper, Kaufman,
Madison, McLennan, Newton, Polk, Trinity, Tyler, and Orange
counties. There were originally 1,125 men, however, due to the
Confederate Conscription Act of April 16, 1862, the number was
reduced to 842. The unit was known by several alternate names
including: Burnett's Cavalry, Beatty's Cavalry, Seale's Cavalry,
Crawford's Cavalry, Young's Cavalry, Bean's Cavalry, and Smith's
Cavalry. The Thirteenth Texas Cavalry primarily served west of
the Mississippi River and was orde