This battalion became the 1st Cavalry Regiment in the fall of 1861.

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Crute Units of the Confederate States Army
Rivers, William J. Col. Rivers Account of the Raising of the Troops for State and Confederate Service.
Sifakis, Stewart Compendium of the Cofederate Armies

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