Department_of_Texas Knowpia

The Department of Texas was a military department of the United States Army that existed from 1850 to 1861, and again from 1865 to 1866, from 1870 to 1913 and during the First World War. It was subordinate to the Military Division of the Missouri.

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Brevet Major General Persifor Frazer Smith, 1850 to 1856
Colonel Albert Sidney Johnston, April 1, 1856, to May 18, 1857
Brevet Major General David E. Twiggs, May 18, 1857, to February 19, 1861
Lt. Colonel Washington Seawell, December 10, 1859, to February 6, 1860. (temporary or acting)
Colonel Robert E. Lee, February 6, 1860, to December 12, 1860. (temporary or acting)
Colonel Carlos A. Waite, February 19, 1861. to April 23, 1861, when the officers of the U.S. Army's Department of Texas are all taken as prisoners of war at the department's headquarters in San Antonio, Texas.

Colonel Joseph J. Reynolds, April 16, 1870, to January 29, 1872
Brigadier General Christopher C. Augur, November 1871 to March 1875
Brigadier General Edward Ord, April 11, 1875, to December 6, 1880
Colonel David S. Stanley, December 7, 1880, to January 3, 1881
Brigadier General Christopher Columbus Augur, January 2, 1881, to October 31, 1883
Brigadier General Ranald S. Mackenzie, November 1 to December 19, 1883
Brigadier General David S. Stanley, May 8, 1884 to June 1, 1892
Brigadier General Zenas Bliss, April 25, 1895? to May 22, 1897
Brigadier General Frederick Dent Grant, October 1902 to January 15, 1904
Brigadier General Jesse M. Lee, February 1904 to January 1907