| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 87.3

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Horse Sweat and Powder Smoke: The First Texas Cavalry in the Civil War. By Stanley S. McGowen. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1999. xvi, 299 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-89096-903-5.)

In recent years Civil War historians have turned increasing attention to the role played by Union and Confederate regiments. Several of the most valuable histories of Texas regiments have been written by students of Grady McWhiney at Texas Christian University. In this well-researched volume, Stanley S. McGowen, a recent doctoral graduate of Texas Christian, has focused upon the first Confederate regiment organized in the Lone Star state, the First Texas Cavalry. Originally known as the Texas Mounted Rifles, the regiment was officially redesignated the First Texas Cavalry in December 1861. After service on the Texas frontier under Henry E. McCulloch, the regiment was disbanded in April 1862 when one-year enlistments expired. Many of the men remained on active duty in the Third Cavalry Battalion and the Eighth Cavalry Battalion. In May 1863 these two battalions were combined with a Partisan Ranger company to reform the First Texas Cavalry Regiment. . . .

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