The regiment was formed around companies from Richard Phillip Crump's 1st Texas Cavalry Battalion which fought in Indian Territory and at Pea Ridge.

[3] The deaths of McIntosh and his superior Benjamin McCulloch early in the battle led to a loss of command control.

[4] In mid-May, Earl Van Dorn moved 22,000 soldiers from Arkansas to the east side of the Mississippi River.

[5] Georgia native Julius A. Andrews first enlisted as a sergeant major in the 1st Louisiana Battalion at age 21.

[1] During its stay in disease-ridden camps during the Siege of Corinth, the 32nd Texas Cavalry suffered the deaths of more than 150 men from measles, pneumonia, chronic diarrhea, and other illnesses.

[7] The Battle of Richmond began when Cleburne encountered Mahlon Dickerson Manson's Union brigade near Mount Zion Church.

[8] Though Charles Cruft's Union brigade soon arrived, the Confederates practically annihilated the Federals, inflicting losses of 206 killed, 844 wounded, and 4,303 captured on a force that counted 6,500 soldiers.

McCown then ordered Rains to shift his brigade to the division's right flank attack to the northeast.

Colonel Andrews soon found his own regiment and the 14th Texas Cavalry in an unequal battle with Samuel Beatty's Federal brigade.

In summer 1863, Ector's brigade transferred to Mississippi in a futile attempt to relieve the Siege of Vicksburg.

[16] For the Battle of Chickamauga on 19–20 September 1863, Ector's brigade served in States Rights Gist's division in William H. T. Walker's corps.

Nathan Bedford Forrest was at hand and he rapidly sent infantry brigades under Claudius C. Wilson and Ector into the expanding conflict.

[1] After Chickamauga, Ector's brigade transferred to Mississippi where it joined the division of Samuel Gibbs French in Leonidas Polk's corps.

The brigade fought at Cassville, New Hope Church, Latimer's Farm, Peachtree Creek, Atlanta, and Lovejoy's Station.

At the Battle of Allatoona on 5 October 1864, the regiment was assigned to guard the artillery and missed this bloody action.

However, Captain Somerville of the regiment led a raid on a Union warehouse in which he was wounded in the stomach and left for dead.

[23] During John Bell Hood's invasion of Tennessee, Ector's brigade missed the Battle of Franklin since it was guarding the army's pontoon bridges.

Edward Canby commanded 45,000 Union troops while Dabney H. Maury led 10,000 Confederate soldiers and 300 cannons.

The fort was defended by the brigades of Ector, James T. Holtzclaw, and Randall L. Gibson, from left to right.

After Union troops seized a foothold, the fort was evacuated on the night of 8–9 April 1865 with the loss of about 50 guns and 500 prisoners.

[1] Nine officers and 49 rank and file of the 32nd Texas Cavalry under the command of Brevet Major Nathan Anderson marched to Meridian where they surrendered on 9 May 1865.