The 6th Texas Cavalry Regiment was a unit of mounted volunteers that fought in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.

[1] In November 1861, the Ladies' Aid Society of Lancaster, Texas provided $1,676.50 worth of clothing, footwear, and blankets for soldiers of the regiment.

Cooper's force failed to stop Opothleyahola's band after skirmishes at Round Mountain on 19 November 1861 and Chusto-Talasah (Bird Creek) on 9 December.

[3] Cooper asked for help and Brigadier General James M. McIntosh led 1,380 Texas horsemen to attack the pro-Union Indians at Chustenahlah.

Ross led his horsemen well to the west of Samuel Ryan Curtis's Federal army and struck the Union supply line at Keetsville, Missouri.

On 25 February 1862, the Texans overpowered the Federal outpost, killing two and capturing one while losing two men wounded and one or two missing.

The raiders' return route went east of Curtis's army and south across the Boston Mountains; they arrived in camp on 1 March.

[5] At the Battle of Pea Ridge on 7–8 March 1862, the 6th Texas Cavalry was part of McIntosh's Brigade in McCulloch's Division.

[6] As McIntosh's troopers advanced east along the Ford Road on the morning of 7 March, they were in five parallel columns of four, with the 6th Texas second from the right.

The 6th Texas participated in the grand charge that captured the guns and routed Colonel Cyrus Bussey's Federal horsemen.

But as he and the 6th Texas Cavalry burst into the open they were confronted with a long line of Federal infantry and artillery from Colonel Peter J. Osterhaus's division.

[10] While these events occurred, the third-in-command Colonel Louis Hebert led half of his infantry brigade into the woods farther east.

[19] At mid-morning on the first day, Phifer's brigade easily overran the breastworks manned by only five Union infantry companies.

[21] On the second day, Maury's division attacked a Federal strongpoint known as Battery Robinett, armed with three 20-pounder Parrott rifles and Colonel John W. Fuller's Union brigade.

The first Union volley stopped the attack with heavy losses, but the Texans pulled back about 30 yd (27 m) and some took cover behind stumps and fallen trees.

The color bearer of the 6th Texas was shot down and Ohio Private Orrin Gould seized the flag, but was badly wounded by a bullet in his chest.

A numerically superior Union division led by Edward Ord suddenly attacked at 9:00 am and overwhelmed Moore's troops, capturing a few hundred men.

Phifer's brigade, temporarily led by Ross, took up positions on a bluff overlooking the east bank of the Hatchie River.

Moore's and Ross's men were soon joined by William Lewis Cabell's brigade and they easily repulsed the Federal attack, inflicting more than 500 casualties.

Lieutenant Colonel Griffith of the 6th Texas Cavalry first proposed a raid on Ulysses S. Grant's supply base at Holly Springs, Mississippi.

[29] The day before, a Union infantry brigade under the command of John Coburn advanced south from Franklin, Tennessee on a reconnaissance.

The Federals brushed aside elements of William Hicks Jackson's Confederate cavalry division, but continued to march forward even though Coburn feared a trap.

[30] Van Dorn ordered Jackson's troopers to dismount and attack Coburn's troops from the south, while Nathan Bedford Forrest's division circled around and hit them from the north.

[27] W. H. Jackson's report of 4 June 1863 stated that Whitfield's cavalry brigade numbered 123 officers and 1,354 men present for duty in the 3rd, 6th, 9th, and 27th Texas.

At the time of the surrender, Colonel Jack Wharton commanded the 6th Texas Cavalry and only 160 men remained in the entire brigade.