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<\/span><\/h2>\nColonel Alfred M. Hobby<\/span><\/h2>\n
\nThe 8th Infantry Regiment was organized during the summer of 1862 The field officers were Colonel A. M. Hobby, Lieutenant Colonels John Ireland and Daniel D. Shea, and Major John A. Vernon.<\/span><\/p>\nThe 8th Texas Infantry Battalion of the Confederate States Army was organized by Alfred Marmaduke Hobby<\/a><\/span> in Refugio County on May 14, 1862 by consolidating the 8th Texas Infantry Battalion and Shea’s Texas Artillery Battalion<\/a><\/span><\/span>. The unit contained one cavalry, four infantry, and five artillery companies, and served in the Trans-Mississippi Department.\u00a0 It confronted the Federals primarily in Texas but saw action at Mansfield and Pleasant Hill in Louisiana.<\/span><\/p>\nIt later became known as Hobby’s Eighth Texas Infantry regiment. It consisted of three companies under captains Robert E. Jones, William E. McCampbell, and P. H. Breeden.\u00a0 A fourth company under Edwin E. Hobby<\/a><\/span> was added on June 20, 1862, and a fifth, under Jos\u00e9 M. Pe\u00f1aloza, completed the battalion. <\/span><\/p>\nThe battalion trained at Camp Charles Russell near Banquete until July 19, 1862, when it was ordered to defend Corpus Christi as a part of the Twenty-ninth Brigade. There it was joined by various other units of light artillery and mounted rifles and in February 1863 became the Eighth Texas Infantry Regiment, with a staff including John Ireland<\/a><\/span>, J. A. Throckmorton, Daniel D. Shea, and others.\u00a0 As a battalion, the force prevented a federal invasion at Corpus Christi in August 1862 and in September captured J. W. Kittridge of the federal fleet. <\/span><\/p>\nIn 1863, after organization of the regiment, the Eighth guarded Fort Esperanza<\/a><\/span><\/span> on Matagorda Island, kept a battery on Mustang Island, and in May drove Union troops off St. Joseph’s Island. In the fall of 1863 superior Union forces under Nathaniel P. Banks<\/a><\/span> were able to force Hobby’s troops back to the San Antonio River.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\nAfter December 1863 they were ordered transferred to East Texas, but many entered Waul’s Texas Legion<\/span> instead.\u00a0 Part of the Eighth regiment was stationed on Galveston Island in the winter of 1863; other units in the area of Indianola and Lavaca engaged in skirmishes with the federals as late as February 1864.\u00a0 Most of the units fought under Thomas N. Waul<\/a><\/span> in the battles of Mansfield<\/a><\/span><\/span> and Pleasant Hill<\/a><\/span><\/span> (see<\/em> Red River Campaign<\/a><\/span>) in April 1864 and from then to the end of the war were employed in coastal defense in Texas.<\/span><\/p>\nIn July, 1864, the regiment had 368 effectives and in April 1865, there were 294 present. However, only a handful surrendered on June 2.<\/span><\/p>\nThe regiment was mustered out of service on May 22, 1865.<\/span><\/p>\nBIBLIOGRAPHY:<\/span><\/p>\n\n- Coleman McCampbell, Saga of a Frontier Seaport<\/em> (Dallas: South-West, 1934). Mary A. Sutherland, The Story of Corpus Christi<\/em> (Corpus Christi Chapter, Daughters of the Confederacy, 1916).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\n- Dudley Goodall Wooten, ed., A Comprehensive History of Texas<\/em> (2 vols., Dallas: Scarff, 1898; rpt., Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1986).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
The 8th Texas Infantry Battalion of the Confederate States Army was organized by Alfred Marmaduke Hobby<\/a><\/span> in Refugio County on May 14, 1862 by consolidating the 8th Texas Infantry Battalion and Shea’s Texas Artillery Battalion<\/a><\/span><\/span>. The unit contained one cavalry, four infantry, and five artillery companies, and served in the Trans-Mississippi Department.\u00a0 It confronted the Federals primarily in Texas but saw action at Mansfield and Pleasant Hill in Louisiana.<\/span><\/p>\n It later became known as Hobby’s Eighth Texas Infantry regiment. It consisted of three companies under captains Robert E. Jones, William E. McCampbell, and P. H. Breeden.\u00a0 A fourth company under Edwin E. Hobby<\/a><\/span> was added on June 20, 1862, and a fifth, under Jos\u00e9 M. Pe\u00f1aloza, completed the battalion. <\/span><\/p>\n The battalion trained at Camp Charles Russell near Banquete until July 19, 1862, when it was ordered to defend Corpus Christi as a part of the Twenty-ninth Brigade. There it was joined by various other units of light artillery and mounted rifles and in February 1863 became the Eighth Texas Infantry Regiment, with a staff including John Ireland<\/a><\/span>, J. A. Throckmorton, Daniel D. Shea, and others.\u00a0 As a battalion, the force prevented a federal invasion at Corpus Christi in August 1862 and in September captured J. W. Kittridge of the federal fleet. <\/span><\/p>\n In 1863, after organization of the regiment, the Eighth guarded Fort Esperanza<\/a><\/span><\/span> on Matagorda Island, kept a battery on Mustang Island, and in May drove Union troops off St. Joseph’s Island. In the fall of 1863 superior Union forces under Nathaniel P. Banks<\/a><\/span> were able to force Hobby’s troops back to the San Antonio River.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n After December 1863 they were ordered transferred to East Texas, but many entered Waul’s Texas Legion<\/span> instead.\u00a0 Part of the Eighth regiment was stationed on Galveston Island in the winter of 1863; other units in the area of Indianola and Lavaca engaged in skirmishes with the federals as late as February 1864.\u00a0 Most of the units fought under Thomas N. Waul<\/a><\/span> in the battles of Mansfield<\/a><\/span><\/span> and Pleasant Hill<\/a><\/span><\/span> (see<\/em> Red River Campaign<\/a><\/span>) in April 1864 and from then to the end of the war were employed in coastal defense in Texas.<\/span><\/p>\n In July, 1864, the regiment had 368 effectives and in April 1865, there were 294 present. However, only a handful surrendered on June 2.<\/span><\/p>\n The regiment was mustered out of service on May 22, 1865.<\/span><\/p>\n BIBLIOGRAPHY:<\/span><\/p>\n\n
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