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    The Texan brig Archer was a two-masted brig of the Second Texas Navy from 1842-1846. She was the sister ship of the Wharton. Transferred to the United...
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  • America commerce raider Texan brig Archer, a Republic of Texas brig USS Archer (BAVG-1), a United States Navy escort carrier Daisy Archer, a Maryland Fisheries...
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    A brig is a type of sailing vessel defined by its rig: two masts which are both square-rigged. Brigs originated in the second half of the 18th century...
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    The Texan brig Wharton was a two-masted brig of the Second Texas Navy from 1839 to 1846. She was the sister ship of the Archer. Accompanying the Texas flagship...
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    The Texan brig Potomac was a ship of the Second Texas Navy that never sailed as a warship. For a while, in 1838, she was the only ship in the Texas Navy...
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    Branch Tanner Archer (December 13, 1790 – September 22, 1856) was a Texan who served as Commissioner to the United States and Speaker of the House of...
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    brigade instead. Three days later at the Battle of Shepherdstown, Archer and Brig. Gen. William Dorsey Pender led an attack that drove a Union pursuit...
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    for the rebels in Yucatan. Other ships of the Texas Navy at the time included the brigs Potomac and Archer, the schooners San Jacinto, San Antonio and the...
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    The Texan sloop-of-war Austin was the flagship of the Second Texas Navy from 1840 to 1846. Commanded by Commodore Edwin Ward Moore, she led a flotilla...
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  • The Texan schooner Independence was one of the four schooners of the First Texas Navy (1836–1838). At the direction of Texas Governor Henry Smith, in 1836...
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    (brigades of Brig Gen. Lawrence O. Branch, Brig Gen. William D. Pender, Col. Edward L. Thomas, Brig Gen. Maxcy Gregg, Brig Gen. James J. Archer, Brig Gen. Charles...
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    The Texan schooner San Bernard was a two-masted schooner of the Second Texas Navy from 1839-1840. She was the sister ship of the San Jacinto and the San...
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    Brig. Gen. Jefferson C. Davis, with the divisions of Brig. Gens. William P. Carlin, James D. Morgan, and Absalom Baird. XX Corps, commanded by Brig....
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    for only about 6 months, capturing the Mexican brig Pelicano loaded with weapons for their army in Texas. Later that year, she sailed to New Orleans accompanying...
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    Albert Sidney Johnston (category Burials at Texas State Cemetery)
    led by Brig. Gen. John B. Floyd, considered incompetent. He took command at Fort Donelson as the senior general present just before U.S. Brig. Gen. Ulysses...
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    consisted of the brigades of Brig. Gens. Charles W. Field, Maxcy Gregg, Joseph R. Anderson, Lawrence O'Bryan Branch, James J. Archer, and William Dorsey Pender...
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    The Texan steamship Zavala was a Texas Navy ship in Texas' second Navy after the Texas Revolution. She was the first steamship-of-war in the Texas Navy...
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    old division, under Col. Birkett D. Fry (Archer's Brigade), Col. James K. Marshall (Pettigrew's Brigade), Brig. Gen. Joseph R. Davis, and Col. John M....
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    The Texan schooner San Jacinto was a two-masted schooner of the Second Texas Navy from 1839 to 1840. She was the sister ship of the San Antonio and the...
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    John Bell Hood (category People of Texas in the American Civil War)
    Texan was promoted to be colonel of the 4th Texas Infantry Regiment. On February 20, 1862, Hood was assigned to command a new brigade of mainly Texas...
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  • American-owned brig Pocket. This merchant vessel, captained by Elijah Howe, was carrying food and weapons to Santa Anna's army in Texas. It also carried...
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  • establishments of that name USS Mercury, seven vessels of that name Russian brig Mercury, an 1820 warship Mercury (pigeon), honored for bravery during World...
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    Republic of Texas empresario Peters Colony land grant. The Young County portion of the grant remained unsettled until the 1850s. In 1851, Bvt. Brig. Gen. William...
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    total collapse, however, reinforcements arrived at 6 a.m., Brig. Gen. John Gregg's 800-man Texas Brigade, the vanguard of Longstreet's column. General Lee...
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    three small brigades under Cleburne—about 4,000 men—and only the Texas brigade of Brig. Gen. James A. Smith was actually positioned on Tunnel Hill. But...
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    1841—October 1842 Texan schooner Invincible Texan schooner Independence Texan schooner Brutus "The Texian Navy" (PDF). Sons of the Republic of Texas. Retrieved...
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    commanders, and operational control of their divisions went to Brig. Gen William H.C. Whiting and Brig. Gen Richard H. Anderson. Maj. Gen. Gustavus Woodson Smith...
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  • 2001, p. 113 Eicher, 2001, p. 702. Eicher, 2001, p. 719. But listed as Brig. Gen. by Eicher and Warner. Ranked April 15, 1861; Eicher 2001, p. 763. Boatner...
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  • Thumbnail for Texan schooner Brutus
    The Texan schooner Brutus was one of the four ships of the First Texas Navy (1836–1838) that during the Texas Revolution wreaked havoc on towns along...
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    was appointed captain in the 2nd Cavalry and served as an aide-de-camp to Brig. Gen. Philip St. George Cooke, who commanded the Cavalry Department of the...
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