page_title: 6th Texas Cavalry Regiment
section_title: Corinth and Holly Springs
hierarchical_section_title: 6th Texas Cavalry Regiment / History / Corinth and Holly Springs
caption_attribution_description: English: Photo of Confederate general Dabney H. MauryDeutsch: Der General der konföderierten Südstaaten Dabney Herndon Maury (1822-1900)
context_page_description: The 6th Texas Cavalry Regiment was a unit of mounted volunteers that fought in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. The regiment fought at Chustenahlah in 1861. The following year the unit fought at Pea Ridge, First Corinth, Second Corinth, Hatchie's Bridge, and Holly Springs. The 6th Texas Cavalry participated in the fighting at Thompson's Station in 1863, the Atlanta campaign, and the Franklin–Nashville Campaign in 1864. The regiment formally surrendered to Union forces in May 1865 and its remaining soldiers were paroled.
context_section_description: After Pea Ridge, the 6th Texas Cavalry numbered 935 officers and men. On 15 April 1862, the regiment was dismounted to fight as infantry and its horses were sent back to Texas. The unit was sent east to join General P. G. T. Beauregard's army. The 6th Texas suffered heavy losses from disease, with 41 men dying in Arkansas and 62 men dying in Mississippi. Corinth, Mississippi proved to be an unhealthy campsite because of its bad water supply and 18,000 of the 80,000 Confederate soldiers there were ill. Ross wrote that Corinth was a "sickly, malarial spot fit only for alligators and snakes." On 14 May 1862, the regiment chose new officers and "Sul" Ross was elected as the new colonel. Stone went back to Texas to recruit a new regiment. At the end of May, Beauregard's army ended the Siege of Corinth by evacuating the place. 
  During the Second Battle of Corinth on 3–4 October 1862, the 6th Texas Cavalry (dismounted) was assigned to Brigadier General Charles W. Phifer's brigade, Brigadier General Dabney H. Maury's division, Major General Sterling Price's corps. The brigade's other units were the 3rd Arkansas Cavalry and 9th Texas Cavalry Regiments, 1st Arkansas Cavalry Battalion (Stirman's), all fighting as infantry, and McNally's Arkansas Battery under Lieutenant Frank A. Moore. During the fighting, the brigade lost 94 killed, 273 wounded, and 200 missing. At mid-morning on the first day, Phifer's brigade easily overran the breastworks manned by only five Union infantry companies. Later in the afternoon, the brigade's advance was slowed by five Federal cannons of Spoor's 2nd Iowa Battery. Phifer's brigade attacked a 250-man outfit called the "Union Brigade" which defended itself weakly and then fled. On the second day, Maury's division attacked a Federal strongpoint known as Battery Robinett, armed with three 20-pounder Parrott rifles and Colonel John W. Fuller's Union brigade. To the east of Battery Robinett, the 6th and 9th Texas Cavalry attacked the 27th Ohio and 39th Ohio Infantry. The first Union volley stopped the attack with heavy losses, but the Texans pulled back about 30 yd (27 m) and some took cover behind stumps and fallen trees. The Texans fired with deadly accuracy, shooting down almost one-fourth of the 39th Ohio's soldiers. The 6th Texas got within 8 yd (7 m) of the 27th Ohio. In the confusion, Colonel Ross was thrown from his horse but not hurt. The color bearer of the 6th Texas was shot down and Ohio Private Orrin Gould seized the flag, but was badly wounded by a bullet in his chest. Finally, the Texans retreated, some of them on their hands and knees to escape the blistering rifle fire.  
  As the Confederate army retreated west from Corinth, its route led across the Hatchie River at Davis Bridge. This brought on the Battle of Hatchie's Bridge on 5 October 1862. Maury led John Creed Moore's brigade across the river in the early morning. A numerically superior Union division led by Edward Ord suddenly attacked at 9:00 am and overwhelmed Moore's troops, capturing a few hundred men. While Moore was being overrun, General Price foolishly waved the 6th and 9th Texas across the bridge. The Texans were soon caught up in the rout of Moore's hapless soldiers and lost 100 men as prisoners before they could retreat across the bridge. Now it was the Confederates' turn to punish their foes. Phifer's brigade, temporarily led by Ross, took up positions on a bluff overlooking the east bank of the Hatchie River. Stupidly, Ord commanded the Federals to cross to the east side of the bridge. Moore's and Ross's men were soon joined by William Lewis Cabell's brigade and they easily repulsed the Federal attack, inflicting more than 500 casualties. 
  Even before the October fighting at Corinth and Hatchie's Bridge, details were sent to Texas to bring the regiment's horses. The 6th Texas Cavalry was remounted and joined a cavalry brigade that included the 3rd Texas, 9th Texas, and 27th Texas Cavalry Regiments. John Wilkins Whitfield assumed command of the brigade on 23 October 1862. Lieutenant Colonel Griffith of the 6th Texas Cavalr
caption: Dabney H. Maury
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