Wallace Thompson King was mustered as a private into the Confederate Texas 19th Cavalry Company E March 31, 1862 in Dallas, Texas. He was listed as being 6 feet 1 1/2 inches tall with gray eyes and light colored hair. His horse was valued at $150.00 and his equipment $20.00. The 19th Texas Cavalry served in the Trans-Mississippi Department as part of Parson's Brigade throughout the Civil War. The colonel, Nathaniel Macon Burford, had been a law partner of Confederate postmaster general John H. Reagan and served as a district judge in Dallas and surrounding counties. Cavalry companies came primarily form the following locations: Company A from Ellis County; Company B from Dallas County; Company C from Ellis County; Company D from Hill County; Company E from Parker County; Company F from Dallas County; Company G from Kaufman County, Company H from McLennan County; Company I from Dallas and Navarro counties: and Company K from Dallas County. Colonel Burford took the regiment to Arkansas in the autumn of 1862. The 19th operated as scouts and raiders in Arkansas, frequently skirmishing with Union cavalry, until selected to take part in the invasion of Missouri in the spring of 1863. Brig. General John S Marmaduke took the majority of Parson's Brigade on the Cape Girardeau raid between April 17 and May 2, 1863, serving under the direct command of Colonel George W Carter. Soon after returning to Arkansas the Texas 19th was ordered to northern Louisiana to help in the defense of Vicksburg. In Louisiana the Texas 19th raided Federally -run plantations that used freed blacks as labor. They raided in the region of Lake Providence and Milliken's Bend.
Wallace Thompson King was mustered as a private into the Confederate Texas 19th Cavalry Company E March 31, 1862 in Dallas, Texas. He was listed as being 6 feet 1 1/2 inches tall with gray eyes and light colored hair. His horse was valued at $150.00 and his equipment $20.00. The 19th Texas Cavalry served in the Trans-Mississippi Department as part of Parson's Brigade throughout the Civil War. The colonel, Nathaniel Macon Burford, had been a law partner of Confederate postmaster general John H. Reagan and served as a district judge in Dallas and surrounding counties. Cavalry companies came primarily form the following locations: Company A from Ellis County; Company B from Dallas County; Company C from Ellis County; Company D from Hill County; Company E from Parker County; Company F from Dallas County; Company G from Kaufman County, Company H from McLennan County; Company I from Dallas and Navarro counties: and Company K from Dallas County. Colonel Burford took the regiment to Arkansas in the autumn of 1862. The 19th operated as scouts and raiders in Arkansas, frequently skirmishing with Union cavalry, until selected to take part in the invasion of Missouri in the spring of 1863. Brig. General John S Marmaduke took the majority of Parson's Brigade on the Cape Girardeau raid between April 17 and May 2, 1863, serving under the direct command of Colonel George W Carter. Soon after returning to Arkansas the Texas 19th was ordered to northern Louisiana to help in the defense of Vicksburg. In Louisiana the Texas 19th raided Federally -run plantations that used freed blacks as labor. They raided in the region of Lake Providence and Milliken's Bend.
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