Waul's Texas Legion
| Monument located on Confederate Avenue south of the Texas Memorial (Park Tour Stop
#13). The monument for Waul's Texas Legion was constructed at a cost of $300 of which $200
was contributed by Pvt. Henry E. Losey, Company A, 77th Illinois Infantry
(Major, U.S.C.T.). The Legion, with the exception of the cavalry battalion listed above,
was attached to Maj. Gen. Carter L. Stevenson's Division, Lt. Gen. John C. Pemberton's
Army of Vicksburg, and was commanded by Col. Thomas N. Waul, who raised and equipped it
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1st Battalion Infantry Commanded by Maj. Eugene S.
Bolling.
2nd Battalion Infantry Commanded by Lt. Col. James Wrigley.
Artillery Company Commanded by Capt. J. Q. Wall.
Cavalry Detachment Commanded by Lt. Thomas L. Cleveland. [Refer to
Edwin Bearss' The Vicksburg Campaign, Volume I, page 594 and Volume III, pages
780, 782, 872 & 965.] |
Go to Texas State Memorial
 
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Last update: Friday, November 05, 1999
http://www.nps.gov/vick/tx/waul.htm
Editor: G. Zeman |
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