Mexican Confederates
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Mexican Confederates
This is a tribute to our brave Mexican heros who honorably served the Confederacy. It has been estimated that about 13000 Hispanics served in the ranks of the Confederacy. There were at least 3000 Mexicans in Texas alone that joined the Confederate Army. Mexicans who fought for the Confederacy outnumbered the amount of Mexicans fighting for the Union by a ratio of 3:1. There were many motivating forces for Mexicans to join the Confederate army. The increasing hostilities between the Federals and Confederacy in Virginia, and the threat of Union occupation of the Texas coast forces people all across Texas to join the Confederacy, and Mexicans were no exception. Mexican soldiers entered Confederate service imbued with the same patriotism as their Anglo comrades did. Many Mexicans who enlisted in the Confederate Army saw combat far from home. A few who joined Hood's Texas Brigade marched off to Virginia and fought in the battles of Gaines' Mill, Second Bull Run, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, and Appomattox Court House. Thirty Tejanos who enlisted from San Antonio, Eagle Pass, and the Fort Clark joined Trevanion T. Teel's artillery company, and thirty-one more joined Charles L. Pyron's company, both in John R. Baylor's Second Texas Mounted Rifles, which marched across the deserts of West Texas to secure the Mesilla valley. These units were later incorporated into Gen. Henry Hopkins Sibley's Confederate Army of New Mexico and fought bravely at the battle <b>...</b> |
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