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Lieutenant Colonel Sebron Miles Noble was born in 1832 in Mississippi to Levi Noble and Jane Steen Noble. His father founded Kemp, Texas in Kaufman County. In 1860 he was living in Nacogdoches Texas working as a land agent and boarding with William Clark, Jr., who was a signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence from Mexico in 1836. Noble had real estate valued at $4,000 and a personal estate of $1,500, according to the 1860 census of Nacogdoches County. He joined the Confederate Army February 1, 1862 as the captain of Company A, 17th Texas Cavalry Regiment, which became part of Brigadier General James Deshler's Brigade at the Confederate fortification at Arkansas Post, Arkansas. On April 24, 1862, his regiment was reorganized and Noble was elected major of the regiment. The original commander, Colonel George F. Moore, was replaced by Colonel James R. Taylor. The regiment was dismounted by August 1862 and sent to Arkansas Post where it took part in the battle there Jan. 9-11 1863. Noble was mentioned in Deshler's battle report as leading the Confederate skirmish line against the Yankee's attack on the post. The Confederates were surrendered on January 11 and most of the men sent to the P.O.W. camps at Camp Chase, Ohio, and then Fort Delaware, Del. However, Noble and his Company A (according to Company A's unite records) on detached duty and did not surrender and were reorganized with other fragments or cavalry and infantry regiments from Arkansas July 1, 1863 in the Trans-Mississippi Department as the 17th Texas Dismounted Confederate Cavalry Regiment under the command of Colonel James Taylor. Noble was promoted to lieutenant colonel and second in command. The regiment was assigned to the infantry brigade of Brigadier General Prince Camille Polignac. There is some confusion in Noble's record because the part of the original 17th Texas that was exchanged from P.O.W. camp in the east also reorganized as the 17th Texas Dismounted and joined Granbury's Brigade in the Army of Tennessee. Noble is listed in that regiment as a major in Granbury's Brigade on a roster dated May 5, 1864. But by that time Noble was dead, having been killed in action at the Battle of Mansfield, April 8, 1864, with the other 17th Texas. The 17th Texas Dismounted took part in the Battle of Fort Beauregard, Harrisonburg, La. on Jan. 24, 1864. They next engaged the enemy at Vidalia, La. on Feb. 4, 1864 and returned to Fort Beauregard. At the Battle of Mansfield, Louisiana on April 8, 1864, the 17th Texas Dismounted was part of Polignac's Brigade in Mouton's Infantry Division. They took part in Mouton's Charge there in which General Mouton was killed, as well as many regimental officers. Among those killed in action there were Colonel Taylor and Lieutenant Colonel Noble. But the battle was a great Confederate victory that defeated the much large Northern invasion and saved Texas from invasion and secured most of Louisiana, Texas and Arkansas for the Confederacy until the end of the war.
