In 1864, the other two Texas regiments were detached and the consolidated 24th and 25th fought as a separate infantry unit in the Atlanta campaign, at Franklin, and at Nashville.

In the spring of 1862, George Washington Carter received permission from the Confederate States Army to form a regiment of Texas lancer cavalry.

Confederate cavalrymen were supposed to provide their own horses and the order to dismount was very unpopular, with many soldiers threatening to desert or writing home about how they were mistreated.

The Confederates repulsed a Union attempt to capture Vicksburg, Mississippi at the Battle of Chickasaw Bayou in late December 1862.

Major General John Alexander McClernand soon assumed command of the Union army and determined to capture Arkansas Post.

With 13 gunboats and 50 transports, Rear Admiral David Dixon Porter's flotilla steamed up the Arkansas River and landed McClernand's 30,000 troops on January 9, 1863.

As the Federal forces began surrounding Arkansas Post and Fort Hindman on January 10, Churchill received orders to hold at all costs.

On January 11, a combined assault by the Union fleet and army forced the Confederate defenders to surrender in the Battle of Arkansas Post.

Like the previous brigade that attacked, when they reached the crest of a rise, Deshler's men were stopped by murderous fire that inflicted severe casualties and the soldiers went to ground.

[3] On November 24, 1863, Major General William Tecumseh Sherman's Union forces crossed the Tennessee River east of Chattanooga and threatened the Confederate defenses on Missionary Ridge.

The Confederate high command only belatedly responded by ordering Cleburne's division to hold the north end of the ridge.

This time, the Federals killed or wounded all the officers and sergeants in a supporting Confederate battery and the fighting was desperate.

The Texans counterattacked, sending the Union troops fleeing downhill, but Foster was hit in the leg and carried to the rear.

[20] A third Federal attack was made, but at 4 pm, a Confederate counterattack cleared the Union soldiers from the slopes of Tunnel Hill.

[21] At the Battle of Ringgold Gap on November 27, 1863, Cleburne's division was the Confederate rearguard, trying to cover the withdrawal of the army's wagon train.

Granbury's brigade was assigned to defend 350 ft (107 m) high White Oak Mountain, to the north of the gap.

[26] On May 8, Granbury's brigade was sent back to Dug Gap where it repulsed a Union attack during the Battle of Rocky Face Ridge.

[27] The next major action of Granbury's brigade was at the Battle of Pickett's Mill where it repulsed the attack of a Union division.

Captain Foster, recovered from his wound, was on picket duty the next morning when he found himself surrounded by dead Federals, many of whom were shot in the head.

Though he had seen many dead and wounded soldiers in the war, the gruesome sight made Foster feel faint and he had to leave.

[24] At the Battle of Gilgal Church on June 15, 1864, Foster and the 24th Texas Cavalry and Captain Richard Goldthwaite's Alabama battery repulsed a Union attack.

Govan's brigade lost too many men to go on, but Smith's Texans continued the charge against Bald Hill, a key position.

[30] The Confederates, including elements of the Texas brigade, made a final effort to seize Bald Hill late in the day, but failed to take it.

[31] On August 31, 1864, at the Battle of Jonesborough, the Texas brigade under Granbury was ordered to attack an entrenched Federal position.

Instead of continuing their planned assault, the brigade veered to the left and drove the Union cavalry across the shallow Flint River.

At the Battle of Spring Hill on November 29, 1864, Granbury's brigade drove off a Union regiment supported by a pair of cannons.

[34] At the Battle of Franklin on November 30, by an astonishing blunder, two brigades of Union troops were left in an advanced position to face the assault of 20,000 Confederates.

[42] The 24th-25th Texas Cavalry (dismounted) fought in the Carolinas campaign from February to April 1865, and at the Battle of Bentonville on March 19–21, 1865.