3 June 1861: Enlisted CSA at Shelbyville, TX, age 33
13 June 1861: Mustered into service at Dallas TX, with Horse ($140.00) and Equipment ($20.00), Travel 180 miles. Assigned 3rd TX Cavalry, Co. E, Kansas Texas Cavalry Regiment, Rank Private
3rd TX Cav. - Unit movements: Indian Territory and Ozarks July 1861 - March 1862*
Battle of Wilson’s Creek, 10 August 1861.*
Nov to Dec 1861: Pvt. Capt. D. M. Short’s Co., Kansas Texas Cavalry Regiment
Battle of Pea Ridge, 7-8 March 1862.*
May to June 1862: Pvt. Co. E, 3rd Regiment Texas Cavalry. Marked as “AWOL West of Mississippi River”. (Possibly due to flooding along Mississippi River) (See line 13)
31 Aug 1862, Pvt. Co E, 3 Regiment Texas Cavalry. Marked as “Deserted 7 July” (See line 13)
3rd TX Cav. - Unit movements: Northern Mississippi and Southwest Tennessee*
July to August 1862: Pvt. R. B. Hooper Appears as a Pvt in Robert H Cumby’s Regiment; and on a muster Roll or detachment of Co. H 11 Reg, Tx Inf. “Remarks: attached to this Co. Aug. 31 1862 from Cumby’s Reg’t of Cavalry, now East of Miss.”
Battle of Iuka. 19 Sept 1862.*
Battle of Corinth, 3-4 Oct 1862*
Sept to Oct 1862: Pvt. Co E, 3 Reg. TX Cavalry. “Remarks: *Entire entry cancelled”
3rd TX Cav. - Unit movements: Middle Tennessee and Northern Alabama.*
Jan to Feb 1863: Pvt. Co. E, 3 Reg’t TX Cavalry. “Present”
March to April 1863: Pvt. Co. E, 3 Reg’t TX Cavalry. “Present”
May to June 1863: Pvt. Co. E, 3 Reg’t TX Cavalry. “Present”
July to Aug 1863: Pvt. Co. E, 3 Reg’t TX Cavalry. “Present”
3rd TX Cav. - Unit movements: Atlanta Campaign. 14 May - 2 Sept 1864
May to June 1864: Pvt. Co. E, 3 Reg’t TX Cavalry. “Present”
June 1865: Pvt. Co. E, 3 Reg’t TX Cavalry. “Appears on a Roll of Prisoners of War… surrendered at New Orleans, La., by General E. K. Smith, CSA, to Maj. Gen. E R S Canby, USA, May 26, 1865, and patrolled at (blank) June (blank) 1865.”

BIRTH 11 AUG 1829 • St Clair County, Alabama

DEATH 19 AUG 1912 • Timpson, Shelby, Texas

Sources:

CSA Confederate Muster Rolls. Fold3 https://www.fold3.com/image/7696779
* ‘The Third Texas Cavalry in the Civil War’; by Douglas Hale, 1993 Univ. of Ok Press, ISBN 0-8061-2462-8

News clipping; source unknown, Shelby County Texas

R. B. Hooper