9th (Maxey's) Infantry Regiment [also called 8th Regiment] was organized during September,
1861. The men were recruited in Galveston and Paris, and Titus, Llano, Collin, and Lamar
counties. It moved east of the Mississippi River and saw action at Shiloh and Perryville. Later it was assigned to
General P. Smith's and Extor's Brigade. It fought at Murfreesboro, served in Mississippi,
then participated in the campaigns of the Army of Tennessee from Chickamauga to Nashville. Ordered to Alabama, it
ended the war at Mobile. This regiment lost thirty percent of the 226 engaged at Shiloh and
thirty-eight percent of the 323 at Murfreesboro. Few surrendered in May, 1865. Its commanders
were Colonels Samuel B. Maxey, Wright A. Stanley, and William H. Young; Lieutenant Colonels
William E. Beeson and Miles A. Dillard; and Majors James Burnet, W.M. Harrison, and James H.
McReynolds.
