American Civil War - Texians

ACW 15mm Epics

The Texas Brigade

It has been a few weeks since I posted last and wanted to get this post out to continue my plunge into the ACW army I painted over COVID. 

1st Texas Regiment

Last time out we saw the first two brigades I painted and how they differed in style and converstions. Here using Peter Pigs 15mm range I even managed to fit 10 per rank onto the same base size as the Warlord Games range. I think this is useful to show as I know I was looking for size comparisons and alternative references while I was collecting this army.

4th Texas Regiment

For the Texan Brigade the choice of painting here is more red shirts and straw hats for the 1st Regiment with more confederate grey coming into the 4th and 5th Regiments. I was trying to achieve the historical accuracy of the Texan Bridge having a more militant feel for cowboys, ranchers and farm hands. These stand out quite well on the table top and are not too big a size difference. In addition the Texians did widely wear red shirts.

1st & 4th Texas Regiments

5th Texas Regiment

The 5th regiment follows the same style but painted a month or so later. The full brigade below also has a Warlord Games regiment in standard paint scheme for the 18th Georgia (back left). The 5th are just out of picture. For reference there are Warlord and Peter Pig mixed together in the 5th Texan, I was experimenting on how much they could be interchangeable and the result is one of movement the Peter Pig now make the front rank feel as if the regiment is on the charge or engaged in a fire fight.

Full Brigade 1st, 4th, 5th Texas Regiment and 18th Georgia

The Georgia Brigade

The next brigade in this whistle stop tour is the Georgia Brigade. With these two regiments below, I have made the butternut much more frequent in both regiments, 7th & 8th. 
 

Brigade of 7th & 8th Georgia Regiment  

Below is a close up of the whole 7th Regiment, 3 stands has become the norm for unit size for me and at 60 figures is a good 1-10 men scale to use for unit sizes too. The 8th also has another alternative command, achieved by cutting the strip and rearranging.
 

Now for some interesting bits, to flesh this brigade out and change the vary painting styles. I added both the Charleston Zouaves Volunteers and the 24th Georgia Volunteer Infantry, who followed Cobb as an Irish element for the south. These could also be the 10th Tennessee carrying an home made Irish brotherhood flag.

Charleston Zouaves

The Charleston Zouaves Volunteers were created by again cutting hats into kepies and painted a grey uniform colour with red hats and cuffs. This is an alternative Zouaves uniform style and they can also be found in a more traditional style too. But the traditional was soon abandoned early in the war.   

24th Georgia Volunteer Infantry or 10th Tennessee Infantry Regiment

The 24th Georgia Volunteer Infantry mainly have flat grey with black hats and cuffs, this is a more basic style of uniform and more similar to a Union style except for the grey. This regiment did exist though it was not entirely made from Irish from the south, rather just a large percentage of. The flag is printed from historical references online.

The Artillery and Brigade Commanders

At this point I was massively behind on the extras, as I was trying to blitz the infantry. So below is a selection of pictures of brigade commanders and artillery for the brigades. I tried to keep the uniforms of the artillery to match the relevant brigades where possible but I do now see some errors.....haha.

Two Batterys of Artillery

Third Battery - These are the Stonewall

Brigade Commanders, Hood, Jackson, Cobb, and Hampton

Hope you have enjoyed this weeks little post. I know I haven't gone into too much detail but if you have any questions drop them below.