11th Battalion, Texas Volunteers (Cavalry and Infantry) (Spaight's)
Overview:
11th (Spaight's) Cavalry and Infantry Battalion, formerly the 6th Texas Infantry Battalion, was a
mixed command organized with 400 men in April, 1862. The unit served in the Department of
Texas, then was assigned to Hebert's Brigade in the Trans-Mississippi Department. During the
spring of 1864 it merged into the 21st Texas Infantry Regiment. Lieutenant Colonel Ashley W.
Spaight and Major J.S. Irvine were its officers.
