Person:Micajah Bankston (1)

Mounted Private, Company E, 9th Texas Cavalry during the Civil War.

The Ninth Texas Cavalry consisted of about 1,000 mounted volunteers from Grayson, Tarrant, Hunt, Hopkins, Cass, Red River, Titus, and Lamar counties. they gathered about 15 miles northwest of here at Brogdon Springs on October 2, 1861, and were mustered into Confederate service under Colonel William B. Sims. Under Colonel Sims the Ninth Cavalry saw considerable action in the Indian Territory of present-day Oklahoma before joining General Ben McCulloch's army in Arkansas in late January 1862. Colonel Sims was wounded during the battle of Pea Ridge in March 1862 and Lt. Col. William Quayle took command. The Ninth Cavalry numbered 657 men in late spring 1862 when they marched to Mississippi to join the Third, Sixth, and Twenty-Seventh Texas cavalry units and formed a cavalry brigade under the command of Lawrence S. Ross. For 15 months Ross' brigade saw almost continual action in Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, and Georgia. They participated in the assault that captured and burned the federal gunboat "Petrel" in 1864. By November 1864 the Ninth Cavalry consisted of only 110 men. Ross' brigade surrendered to federal troops at Jackson, Mississippi, on May 4, 1865. Veterans of Ross' brigade formed an association in 1878.

file card showing details of Micaja's enlistment in 9th Texas Cavalry

Courthouse Square, Sherman, Grayson County, Texas

1.   Texas. General Land Office. Abstracts of All Original Texas Land Titles Comprising Grants and Locations. (Austin, Texas: Texas General Land Office)
   Patent #315 (Abstract # 95).

   On 13 Oct 1860, he received 3rd Class headright certificate #[no number] for 160 acres, which he located northeast of Bogata & southeast of Peters Prairie.

2. ↑ Register of Deaths, in Register of Deaths - Overton Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee
   14 October 1863.
   Record entry - right hand page towards middle - giving name and showing date, place and cause of death
3.   Age of 28 at the time of his enlistment in the 9th Texas Cavalry CSA on 12 September 1861 - does not agree with age of 20 in the 1850 census but does agree with age of 27 in 1860 census.