3rd Infantry Regiment completed its organization during the fall of 1861. Some of its members
were recruited at Austin and San Antonio. It served along the Texas coast at various points and
in October, 1862, totalled 648 effectives. Because the regiment never saw any action, during the
latter part of the war morale deteriorated. It disbanded before the Trans-Mississippi Department
surrendered in June, 1865. The field officers were Colonel Philip N. Luckett, Lieutenant Colonels
Augustus Buchel and Edward F. Gray, and Major John H. Kampmann.
