Colonel Elkanah Greer's Third Texas Cavalry Regiment, recruited from twenty-six counties of northeastern Texas, was one of the most famous Confederate units from the Lone Star State. The original regiment - lawyers, students, politicians, businessmen, and farmers - who volunteered to go to war with Greer went on to serve in Missouri and Arkansas under Ben McCulloch in 1861 and 1862 and eventually became part of General "Sul" Ross's brigade in the...