Mortimer, was born abt 1843 in Alabama and lived in Alto, TX Cherokee County. He father was Jerimiah Murphy. He joined the 1st Texas Infantry - Company I - Crockett Southrons (Confederate) June 24, 1861 and was killed on July 2, 1863 at the Battle of Gettysburg.
Alternate Name: Mortimer/Murphy Film Number: M227 roll 26
M. Murphy Side: Confederate Regiment State/Origin: Texas Regiment Name: 1 Texas Infantry Regiment Name Expanded: 1st Regiment, Texas Infantry Company: I
Rank In: Private
Died: Advancing toward Little Round Top with Hood's Brigade on the
Evening of July 2, 1863.
The 1st Texas Infantry Regiment, nicknamed the "Ragged Old First," was an infantry regiment raised in Texas for service in theConfederate States Army during the American Civil War. It fought mostly with the Army of Northern Virginia.
The 1st Texas Infantry Regiment was assembled at Richmond, Virginia, in August, 1861, with ten companies from Marion, Cass, Polk,Houston, Harrison, Tyler, Anderson, Cherokee, Sabine, San Augustine, Newton, and Nacogdoches counties. Later two companies fromGalveston and Trinity County were added to the command. Part of Hood's Texas Brigade, it served under Generals Hood, J.B. Robertson, and John Gregg. The regiment fought with the Army of Northern Virginia from Seven Pines to Cold Harbor except when it was detached with Longstreet at Suffolk, Chickamauga, and Knoxville. It was involved in the Petersburg siege north and south of the James River and later the Appomattox Campaign. This unit had 477 effectives in April, 1862 and lost 186 of the 226 engaged at Sharpsburg, a casualty rate of 82.3% percent. This staggering casualty rate was the highest suffered by any regiment, North or South,on a single day, during the entire war.[1] In incurring these losses during ferocious fighting in Miller's cornfield the regiment lost a battle flag which was picked up by federal troops when they re-occupied the cornfield (the First Texas having previously withdrawn without noticing the loss of their flag).
The highest number of caualties, on the other hand, was suffered by the 26th North Carolina Infantry at the battle of Gettysburg. They suffered 72% casualties out of the 820 engaged. The 1st Texas suffered more than twenty percent of the 426 during the same engagement. It surrendered with 16 officers and 133 men. The field officers were Colonels Frederick S. Bass, Hugh McLeod, Alexis T. Rainey, and Louis T. Wigfall; Lieutenant Colonels Harvey H. Black, Albert G. Clopton, R.J. Harding, and P.A. Work; and Majors Matt. Dale and John R. Woodward.
He married Elizabeth H. Mallory October 11, 1860* Texas Marriage Collection, 1814-1909 and 1966-2002. They had only one child, William Henry Murphy born in Alto, TX on January 1, 1861.
Elizabeth Mallory Murphy remarried J.M. McGill. Mortimer's parents were Jeremiah Murphy and Adaline Black Murphy. Census records show them in Cherokee County, Alabama in 1850 and in Cherokee County, Texas in 1860.
Alternate Name: Mortimer/Murphy Film Number: M227 roll 26
M. Murphy Side: Confederate Regiment State/Origin: Texas Regiment Name: 1 Texas Infantry Regiment Name Expanded: 1st Regiment, Texas Infantry Company: I
Rank In: Private
Died: Advancing toward Little Round Top with Hood's Brigade on the
Evening of July 2, 1863.
The 1st Texas Infantry Regiment, nicknamed the "Ragged Old First," was an infantry regiment raised in Texas for service in theConfederate States Army during the American Civil War. It fought mostly with the Army of Northern Virginia.
The 1st Texas Infantry Regiment was assembled at Richmond, Virginia, in August, 1861, with ten companies from Marion, Cass, Polk,Houston, Harrison, Tyler, Anderson, Cherokee, Sabine, San Augustine, Newton, and Nacogdoches counties. Later two companies fromGalveston and Trinity County were added to the command. Part of Hood's Texas Brigade, it served under Generals Hood, J.B. Robertson, and John Gregg. The regiment fought with the Army of Northern Virginia from Seven Pines to Cold Harbor except when it was detached with Longstreet at Suffolk, Chickamauga, and Knoxville. It was involved in the Petersburg siege north and south of the James River and later the Appomattox Campaign. This unit had 477 effectives in April, 1862 and lost 186 of the 226 engaged at Sharpsburg, a casualty rate of 82.3% percent. This staggering casualty rate was the highest suffered by any regiment, North or South,on a single day, during the entire war.[1] In incurring these losses during ferocious fighting in Miller's cornfield the regiment lost a battle flag which was picked up by federal troops when they re-occupied the cornfield (the First Texas having previously withdrawn without noticing the loss of their flag).
The highest number of caualties, on the other hand, was suffered by the 26th North Carolina Infantry at the battle of Gettysburg. They suffered 72% casualties out of the 820 engaged. The 1st Texas suffered more than twenty percent of the 426 during the same engagement. It surrendered with 16 officers and 133 men. The field officers were Colonels Frederick S. Bass, Hugh McLeod, Alexis T. Rainey, and Louis T. Wigfall; Lieutenant Colonels Harvey H. Black, Albert G. Clopton, R.J. Harding, and P.A. Work; and Majors Matt. Dale and John R. Woodward.
He married Elizabeth H. Mallory October 11, 1860* Texas Marriage Collection, 1814-1909 and 1966-2002. They had only one child, William Henry Murphy born in Alto, TX on January 1, 1861.
Elizabeth Mallory Murphy remarried J.M. McGill. Mortimer's parents were Jeremiah Murphy and Adaline Black Murphy. Census records show them in Cherokee County, Alabama in 1850 and in Cherokee County, Texas in 1860.
Mortimer, was born abt 1843 in Alabama and lived in Alto, TX Cherokee County. He father was Jerimiah Murphy. He joined the 1st Texas Infantry - Company I - Crockett Southrons (Confederate) June 24, 1861 and was killed on July 2, 1863 at the Battle of Gettysburg.
Alternate Name: Mortimer/Murphy Film Number: M227 roll 26
M. Murphy Side: Confederate Regiment State/Origin: Texas Regiment Name: 1 Texas Infantry Regiment Name Expanded: 1st Regiment, Texas Infantry Company: I
Rank In: Private
Died: Advancing toward Little Round Top with Hood's Brigade on the
Evening of July 2, 1863.
The 1st Texas Infantry Regiment, nicknamed the "Ragged Old First," was an infantry regiment raised in Texas for service in theConfederate States Army during the American Civil War. It fought mostly with the Army of Northern Virginia.
The 1st Texas Infantry Regiment was assembled at Richmond, Virginia, in August, 1861, with ten companies from Marion, Cass, Polk,Houston, Harrison, Tyler, Anderson, Cherokee, Sabine, San Augustine, Newton, and Nacogdoches counties. Later two companies fromGalveston and Trinity County were added to the command. Part of Hood's Texas Brigade, it served under Generals Hood, J.B. Robertson, and John Gregg. The regiment fought with the Army of Northern Virginia from Seven Pines to Cold Harbor except when it was detached with Longstreet at Suffolk, Chickamauga, and Knoxville. It was involved in the Petersburg siege north and south of the James River and later the Appomattox Campaign. This unit had 477 effectives in April, 1862 and lost 186 of the 226 engaged at Sharpsburg, a casualty rate of 82.3% percent. This staggering casualty rate was the highest suffered by any regiment, North or South,on a single day, during the entire war.[1] In incurring these losses during ferocious fighting in Miller's cornfield the regiment lost a battle flag which was picked up by federal troops when they re-occupied the cornfield (the First Texas having previously withdrawn without noticing the loss of their flag).
The highest number of caualties, on the other hand, was suffered by the 26th North Carolina Infantry at the battle of Gettysburg. They suffered 72% casualties out of the 820 engaged. The 1st Texas suffered more than twenty percent of the 426 during the same engagement. It surrendered with 16 officers and 133 men. The field officers were Colonels Frederick S. Bass, Hugh McLeod, Alexis T. Rainey, and Louis T. Wigfall; Lieutenant Colonels Harvey H. Black, Albert G. Clopton, R.J. Harding, and P.A. Work; and Majors Matt. Dale and John R. Woodward.
He married Elizabeth H. Mallory October 11, 1860* Texas Marriage Collection, 1814-1909 and 1966-2002. They had only one child, William Henry Murphy born in Alto, TX on January 1, 1861.
Elizabeth Mallory Murphy remarried J.M. McGill. Mortimer's parents were Jeremiah Murphy and Adaline Black Murphy. Census records show them in Cherokee County, Alabama in 1850 and in Cherokee County, Texas in 1860.
Alternate Name: Mortimer/Murphy Film Number: M227 roll 26
M. Murphy Side: Confederate Regiment State/Origin: Texas Regiment Name: 1 Texas Infantry Regiment Name Expanded: 1st Regiment, Texas Infantry Company: I
Rank In: Private
Died: Advancing toward Little Round Top with Hood's Brigade on the
Evening of July 2, 1863.
The 1st Texas Infantry Regiment, nicknamed the "Ragged Old First," was an infantry regiment raised in Texas for service in theConfederate States Army during the American Civil War. It fought mostly with the Army of Northern Virginia.
The 1st Texas Infantry Regiment was assembled at Richmond, Virginia, in August, 1861, with ten companies from Marion, Cass, Polk,Houston, Harrison, Tyler, Anderson, Cherokee, Sabine, San Augustine, Newton, and Nacogdoches counties. Later two companies fromGalveston and Trinity County were added to the command. Part of Hood's Texas Brigade, it served under Generals Hood, J.B. Robertson, and John Gregg. The regiment fought with the Army of Northern Virginia from Seven Pines to Cold Harbor except when it was detached with Longstreet at Suffolk, Chickamauga, and Knoxville. It was involved in the Petersburg siege north and south of the James River and later the Appomattox Campaign. This unit had 477 effectives in April, 1862 and lost 186 of the 226 engaged at Sharpsburg, a casualty rate of 82.3% percent. This staggering casualty rate was the highest suffered by any regiment, North or South,on a single day, during the entire war.[1] In incurring these losses during ferocious fighting in Miller's cornfield the regiment lost a battle flag which was picked up by federal troops when they re-occupied the cornfield (the First Texas having previously withdrawn without noticing the loss of their flag).
The highest number of caualties, on the other hand, was suffered by the 26th North Carolina Infantry at the battle of Gettysburg. They suffered 72% casualties out of the 820 engaged. The 1st Texas suffered more than twenty percent of the 426 during the same engagement. It surrendered with 16 officers and 133 men. The field officers were Colonels Frederick S. Bass, Hugh McLeod, Alexis T. Rainey, and Louis T. Wigfall; Lieutenant Colonels Harvey H. Black, Albert G. Clopton, R.J. Harding, and P.A. Work; and Majors Matt. Dale and John R. Woodward.
He married Elizabeth H. Mallory October 11, 1860* Texas Marriage Collection, 1814-1909 and 1966-2002. They had only one child, William Henry Murphy born in Alto, TX on January 1, 1861.
Elizabeth Mallory Murphy remarried J.M. McGill. Mortimer's parents were Jeremiah Murphy and Adaline Black Murphy. Census records show them in Cherokee County, Alabama in 1850 and in Cherokee County, Texas in 1860.
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