Pvt.  Abner. Pipes

Co. A, 11th Texas Infantry ( Robert's Regiment)

Last Updated January 11, 2008

I have almost no information on this man. He was listed in the microfilm at the Fort Wayne Library as Abner Pipes. I ran across his pension application in the Texas Archives in 1996. There was another Abner Pipes who served in the 22nd Texas Infantry so we have to watch for conflicting records, or possibly it is the same man.

The Pension application, completed in 1899 in San Augustine County, Texas, tells us that he was born in 1833, that he joined the 11th Texas Infantry on July 13th, 1861 and that he served until the end of the war. He has two witnesses and a doctor's report that claims that he is a farmer, is indigent, in ill health and is suffering from hereditary Consumptive Diathesis. The pension is granted and the two witnesses are W. E. Williams and D. G. Laggnil ( sic?)

It is interesting that he signs his name as A. Pipes not Abner. His name is listed in several places on the application as A. and never as Abner. I am assuming here that his name is Abner because of the microfilm record using the name Abner and the units ( 11th Texas) being the same. My assumption may be wrong.

In early 2008 I found a POW record on ancestry.com for Abner Pipes. It shows that in 1864 during the Red River Campaign, Abner was captured when the Union Forces attacked Fort DeRussy. He was being held a POW in New Orleans and was later exchanged at Red River, Louisiana.

The 11th Texas Infantry

The 11th Infantry Regiment was assembled at Houston, Texas, during the winter of 1861—1862. Many of the men were recruited in the towns of Clarksville, Henderson, and Marshall, and the counties of Cherokee and Shelby. It was assigned to the Army of New Mexico, then served in H. Randal’s and Maclay’s Brigade, Trans-Mississippi Department. The unit skirmished in Louisiana and lost 4 killed, 15 wounded, and 32 missing at Bayou Bourdeau. During the Red River Campaign, Company A with 3 officers and 42 men was captured. It later moved to Arkansas, fought at Jenkins Ferry then was stationed at Shreveport, Louisiana, and later Hemstead, Texas where it disbanded in May, 1865.

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