The Department of Texas was a military department of the United States Army that existed from 1853 to 1860, and again from 1865 to 1866, from 1870 to 1913 and during the First World War. It was subordinate to the Military Division of the Missouri.
Commanders[]
- First creation
- Colonel Albert Sidney Johnston, April 1, 1856, to May, 1857
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- Lt. Colonel Washington Seawall, December 10, 1859, to February 6, 1860
- Colonel Robert E. Lee, February 6 to December 12, 1860
- Second creation
- Bvt. Major General Gordon Granger, June 19, 1865, to August 2, 1865
- Bvt. Major General Horatio G. Wright, July 20, 1865, to Aug. 18, 1866
- Third creation
- Colonel Joseph J. Reynolds, April 16, 1870, to January 29, 1872
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- Brigadier General Edward Ord, April 11, 1875 to December 6, 1880
- Colonel David S. Stanley, December 7, 1880, to January 3, 1881
- Brigadier General Christopher Columbus Augur, January 2, 1881 to October 31, 1883
- Brigidier General Ranald S. Mackenzie, November 1 to Dec. 19, 1883
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- Brigadier General David S. Stanley, May 8, 1884 to June 1, 1892
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- Brigadier General Zenas Bliss ?April 25, 1895? to May 22, 1897.
- Brigadier General Frederick Dent Grant, October 1902 to January 15, 1904
- Fourth creation
- Brigadier General James Parker, May to August, 1917
References[]
- "Records of United States Army Continental Commands, 1821-1920". http://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/393.html#393.4.
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