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- Name: A. L. Brigance
Side: Confederate
Regiment State/Origin: Texas
Regiment Name: 12 Texas Infantry
Regiment Name Expanded: 12th Regiment, Texas Infantry (Young's)
Company: C
Rank In: Second Lieutenant
Rank In Expanded: Second Lieutenant
Rank Out: Private
Rank Out Expanded: Private
Alternate Name: James/Blatt
Film Number: M227 roll 4
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CONFEDERATE TEXAS TROOPS
12th Regiment, Texas Infantry (Young's)
12th Infantry Regiment [also called 8th Regiment] was organized and mustered in Confederate service at Waco, Texas, during the spring of 1862. Its members were recruited in the towns and cities of Clarksville, Cameron, Hempstead, Nacogdoches, Fairfield, and Waco, and the counties of Comanche, Milam, and Grimes. The regiment was assigned to O. Young's and Waul's Brigade, Trans-Mississippi Department, and saw action in Louisiana and Arkansas. After fighting at Jenkins' Ferry, it moved to Hempstead and disbanded in the spring of 1865. The field officers were Colonel Overton Young; Lieutenant Colonels William Clark, B.A. Philpott, and James W. Raine; and Major Erastus Smith.
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Appointed delegate to attend Democratic State Convention for either Brazos or Robertson counties in 1853.
Texas Ranger & Lone Star. (Washington, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 48, Ed. 1, Thursday, June 9, 1853
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Member of the Gillespie Lodge, No. 55 in 1855.
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Clerk of Robertson County District Court in 1855
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