Hardeman's Regiment, Texas Cavalry (31st Cavalry) (1st Regiment, Arizona Brigade)

Notes from Karen Ley - "All I know about P.H. Hall and Priscilla Hall came from my Uncle Felix Gilbert, my dad's brother, and son to John and Magnolia Gilbert. Uncle Felix said he was named for PH and we were all very confused with the spelling. Someone said Priscilla was part Cherokee Indian and abandoned as a child and later was taken in and raised by a family in Arkansas. I have no verification of this story."724

...contnuing - "The reference to P.H. Hall is from his confederate war pension. Texas paid all of its Civil War veterans a pension and P.H. applied in 1913. They had to fill out an application and have someone verify that they were actually enlisted since the records were not very accurate. I have a copy of his pension application which I will try to scan and send you. In addition, his tombstone in Cotulla, TX says P.H. Hall. It seems as if he went by the name 'PH'."725

Birth Location for Fielding "P.H." Henry Hall
On his Civil War Pension Application P.H. put Danville, Boyle County, Kentucky. Personally, I'm not so sure that his is the actual "place that he was born" or the closest place to where he was born. All other indications show that the Hall families of this area lived in Mercer, Boyle, Lincoln. It was only Matthew who has been found living in Garrard. However, due to the location of these four counties, it is very possible that the Hall family always lived in the same area and that the borders kept changing around them over the years. And with all of the other information I have found on this Hall family, I have had no indication that they lived in a town. So I think it would be safe to say that P.H. used Danville as the "biggest town" closest to where he was born.

1850 - Matthew and his family can be found in District 1, Garrard County, Kentucky in the 1850 Federal Census. They are listed as:
Matthew age 26 b. VA Turnpiker
Eliza age 24 b. KY
Fielding age 4 b. KY
Eliza age 6/12 b. KY

1854 to 1858 - His parents can be found in the Warrensburg, Johnson County, Missouri area. Legal transactions can be found between his parents and relatives back in Kentucky.

1860 - Fielding's family moved to Bates Township, Sebastian County, Arkansas sometime between June 1858 and _________ when the 1860 census was taken.
Mathew Hall age 37 b. 1822 VA
Eliza wife age 36 b. 1823 KY
Henry son age 14 b. 1845 KY
Betsy dau age 10 b. 1849 KY
George son age 6 b. 1853 KY
Lucy age 5 b. 1854 MO
Charles age 3 b. 1856 MO

1862 - Civil War Years
On Fielding's Civil Wary Pension Application he states that he first served in Arkansas and enlisted in the fall of 1862. He said that he served with Co. D, Calvary, Wells Regiments of Gono's Brigade and that his Captain was Jack Edwards. He also states that he was a Private all the time. He states that he was with this this Regiment until the end of the war. He also states that he was sometimes conscripted for a week or two to drive teams when regular drivers were sick. There is also a line mentioning that while in Gano's Brigade, he was at some point assigned to Coopers Division, which I believe came over from Arkansas for a time to fight Indians. P.H.'s movement in the Civil War is rather complex. I'm not sure that I fully understand the changing of the company names. Also, I can't not seem to find his name in the main Civil War database.

A letter of reference from J. D. Speegle states that he was in the same Co. D., Well's Batalion, Ganos Brigade, Coopers Division, in the Indian / Texas conflict. Speegle was an Orderly Sargent and P.H. Hall was a Private.

He also says that there was another man by the same name as the said P H Hall in said Company, and that he was absolutely sure that the person whose name is signed to the forgoing application is the same P H Hall who served with him, in the Confederate army as above stated. He also said in his statement, that the company was disbanded at Hempstead, Texas, at the close of the war. But somewhere along the way, that the company moved from Gano's Brigade to Walker's Brigade.

When I looked up on the Internet in the Civil War databases I got Hardeman's Regiment, Texas Cavalry (31st Cavalry) (1st Regiment, Arizona Brigade)

HARDEMAN, PETER (1831-1882).- After the Secession Convention, Hardeman was commissioned by Governor Edward Clark to raise a company of mounted volunteers. He and his ninety-man Company A, Second Regiment of Texas Mounted Rifles, served under Col. John Robert Baylor in the New Mexico campaign. Hardeman's was the only outfit "engaged with the enemy" in the rout and capture of Union major Isaac Lynde's force of 700 men at Mesilla and near Fort Fillmore in July 1861. After taking part in other New Mexico expeditions, Hardeman was transferred to the command of the Arizona Brigade and, later, Hardeman's Texas Battalion, in the western border region near the Missouri and Arkansas boundaries. On Rocky Creek, Choctaw Nation, he stealthily surrounded William C. Quantrill, some of whose men had been seen with what turned out to be captured Union regalia. A battle was forestalled when, at the last moment, the units recognised that they were allies.

1865 - 1870 - Fielding moved to Texas sometime between the end of the war in 1865 and 1866 -that is, according to the 1880 census. On that census all of his children were identified as being born in Texas. Also, Fielding served in the CSA in Hardeman's Texas Calvary. I have also found it listed as Hardeman's Regiment Cavalry "31st Cavalry" "1st Regiment, Arizona Brigade."
Hall, P. H.
Application Number: 25214
County: La Salle

1865, March 10 - Married to Priscilla Stewart - location unknown - but all of their children were born in Texas starting in 1866. The date of March the 10th 1865 came from some of the descendants of this line who are still living in Texas, but they could not document the date and did not know where they had married. They also stated that Priscilla's last name was Stewart.

1870 - haven't been able to find any of this family line (parents, children, etc...) If they were living in Arkansas or on the boarders of Oklahoma, they possibly could have been missed in the census. In 1860 part of the Oklahoma census was taken and added to Arkansas. So it is very possible that this family was actually living in the Oklahoma Territory, where in 1870, there was no census taken. It would also account for the missing marriage information for Fielding and Priscilla.

1880 - Census for Atascosa County, Texas. He is listed as Fielden H. Hall ED #8 page 291C
HALL, Fielden H. - 34 Farmer KY KY KY
HALL, Pricilla 28 Keeping House AR MS MS
HALL, William 14 Works on farm TX TX TX
HALL, Malinda 11 TX
HALL, George 8 TX
HALL, Annie 5 TX
HALL, Charles 3 TX

1900 - Found in La Salle County, Texas ED # 138 page 1B
[http://www.historicaldistrict.com/Genealogy/lasalle'lsc1900d.asp}Page 284
16 17 Hall, Field Head W M Sept 1846 53 M 34 Kentucky Kentucky Kentucky Stock drover
16 17 Hall, Priscilla Wife W F Dec 1851 48 M 34 10 9 Arkansas Arkansas Arkansas
16 17 Hall, Betty Daughter W F June 1883 16 S Texas Kentucky Arkansas
16 17 Hall, John S. Son W M Aug 1888 11 S Texas Kentucky Arkansas
16 17 Hall, Tennie Daughter W F Oct 1891 8 S Texas Kentucky Arkansas

1910, 21 Apr ; TEXAS, LASALLE, 1 J-PCT
Series: T624 Roll: 1571 Page: 41 ED: 77 Sheet 3B
HALL, Phield H 68, married 43 yrs, KY MO KY, night watchman
HALL, Phesila 60, 10 children born, 9 surviving, AR MS AR
HALL, John son, 21, TX, no occupation
HALL, Tennie dtr, 18, TX
HALL, William 45, widower, TX, KY, AR, freighter
HALL, Edward C 21, TX, barber
HALL, Alfred 15, TX
HALL, Tomas P 12, TX
HALL, Daisy 10, TX

1920 - Census for La Salle County, Texas. He is listed as Feld Hall.
HALL, Feld 75 TEXAS TX TX
HALL, Tennie dau 38 TEXAS TX TX

I found one source that said here name was Stewart, but I can not document this finding. Also, I have found a family named Sneed who lived in Crawford Co, which is located north of Sebastian.