2nd Texas Infantry Regiment

Colonel William P. Rogers, a Mexican–American War comrade of President Jefferson Davis, was among those killed in the charge.

[3] Rogers seized his colors to keep them from falling again and jumped a five-foot ditch, leaving his dying horse and assaulted the ramparts of the battery.

[4] The regiment was distinguished for its defense of a crescent-shaped fortification, which came to be known as the Second Texas Lunette.

The fortification was located in the center of the Vicksburg line of defense constructed to guard the Baldwin Ferry Road.

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Confederate dead outside the parapet of Battery Robinett on October 5. Col. William P. Rogers of the 2nd Texas lies in the left background-his dead horse is to the right
Confederate dead lay gathered at the bottom of the parapet of Battery Robinett on October 5. Col. William P. Rogers of the 2nd Texas lies in the left foreground