Calcasieu Greys, April 2022 [Monthly Newsletter of Captain James W. Byran Camp 1390, Sons of Confederate Veterans

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Lt. Col. Sebron Miles Noble

17th Texas Consolidated Texas Dismounted Cavalry

Killed in Action, Battle of Mansfield, La. April 8, 1864

(Ancestry.com/family trees)

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.

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Confederate monument previously in

Minden, Louisiana and now located on

the Battle of Pleasant Hill battleground

at Pelican, Louisiana.

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Major Heros Von Borcke

Chief of Staff for Maj. Gen. J.E.B. Stuart

He was a Prussian soldier who came to

the Confederacy to help the South win its independence.

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General Robert Edward Lee

Born January 19, 1807

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Battle of Murfreesboro, Tenn.

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See battle Details in newsletter, page 4.

(Stone's River NMP, National Park Service)

Click on map to enlarge. (U.S. Army)

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Felix Grundy Winder who served

both in Co. E. 1st Special Bn. La. Inf.

and as captain in Co. K, 26th La. Inf.

Killed May 19, 1863 in the Siege of

Vicksburg, Miss. at age 23. 

Requiescecat in pace

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Lt. Col. William J. Hardee

Biography of Lt. Gen. William Joseph Hardee

[From The Confederate Military History]

Lieutenant-General William J. Hardee was born in Camden County, Georgia, on October 12, 1815. After receiving a military education at West Point, he entered the army with the class of 1838, as a second lieutenant of the Second cavalry, and was promoted first-lieutenant in 1839, and served in the Florida war of 1840. He was then sent to Europe by the government as a member of a military commission to study the organization of foreign armies, and in that capacity visited the military school at St. Maur, France.
       In 1844 he was promoted captain, and in 1846 crossed the Rio Grande with General Taylor. He behaved with gallantry in the Mexican war, was taken prisoner at Curricito, but exchanged, and for his valor at La Hoya was brevetted major. In 1853 his professional accomplishments caused his selection by the secretary of war, for the compilation of a system of infantry tactics, which was adopted in March 1855. In the following year "Hardee's Tactics" was introduced at West Point, where he was appointed commandant with the rank of lieutenant-colonel. In 1861 he resigned from this commission and entered the Confederate service as colonel of cavalry on March 16th, being assigned to command at Fort Morgan, Ala. On June 17th, he was promoted to brigadier-general, in which rank he organized a brigade of Arkansas regiments, and operated in that State until called with his men across the Mississippi when he was commissioned major-general and put in command of a division of the army in Kentucky and Tennessee under Albert Sidney Johnston. He led the advance from Corinth in command of the Third army corps, and commanded the first line of attack at Shiloh, where he was wounded, but managed his command with such energy that he was promoted, major-general.
       In the following summer he was put in immediate command of the army of the Mississippi, afterward called the army of Tennessee, and during the Kentucky campaign, he commanded the left wing of Bragg's army. In the battle of Perryville, he bore a conspicuous part, and he was immediately afterward promoted to the rank of lieutenant-general. At the battle of Murfreesboro, the left-wing under his masterly leadership was successful in the fight, and he was specially commended by General Bragg "for skill, valor, and ability."
       General Hardee had now well earned the exalted rank which he held and a military reputation which was tersely expressed by his soldiers in the cognomen "Old Reliable." In 1863 he was detailed to defend Mississippi and Alabama, but returned to the command of his corps at Chattanooga, and commanded the right-wing at Missionary Ridge, where General Thomas declared he was "the most efficient general the Confederacy had on the field." The subsequent maneuver of his troops at Cassville and his masterly retreat in the echelon of divisions won the renewed admiration of his opponents. On December 2, 1863, he succeeded General Bragg in command of the army but soon turned this over to General Polk, who in turn gave place to Gen. J. E. Johnston. Under the latter and his successor, J. B. Hood, he commanded a corps of the army of Tennessee through the Atlanta campaign, taking a prominent part in the fighting at Resaca, Kenesaw Mountain, and other points, and particularly at Peach Tree Creek and the battle of July 22d, where he commanded the flank movement against the Federal left wing. His corps was again engaged at Jonesboro and the last fighting of the campaign.
       In October 1864, he was assigned to command the Department of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, with the task of collecting at Savannah forces to operate against Sherman's advance. The troops he required were no longer to be found in the South, and by one of the most masterly retreats of the war, he evaded Sherman's overwhelming force before Savannah, and withdrew to Charleston and thence to Columbia. At Averysboro, in March 1865, he punished the enemy effectively, and a few days later he led in the battle of Bentonville the last charge that was made by the Confederacy's war-worn soldiers, and his only son, sixteen years of age, was among the last to fall. In this last battle of the four years, with undiminished spirit, the general, as Johnston has described it, "with his knightly gallantry dashed over the enemy's breastworks on horseback in front of his men." It is told of General Hardee, illustrating his thoroughness as a soldier, that he was the only lieutenant-general who personally inspected the arms and accouterments of each soldier of his corps. General J. E. Johnston said of him that "he was more capable of commanding twenty thousand men in battle than any other Confederate general." General Hardee died at Wytheville, Va., on November 6, 1873, and his remains were interred at Selma, Ala., where he had resided after the war.