CS00398_401 -- 5TH Texas Collection (Sets CS00398 - CS00401)

This offer includes one each of Collectors Showcase 5Th Texas, Sets CS00398 - CS00401. Please note these are supplied in separate boxes.

The Texas Brigade or Hood's Texas Brigade was to Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia as what the Old Guard was to Napoleon Bonaparte and the French Imperial Army. First in the advance. Shock troops in battle. The rear guard in retreat. The Texas Infantry Regiments were formed into the 1st, 4th, and 5th. These were the only Texas troops to fight in the Army of Northern Virginia. Hood's Texas Brigades were also the only troops to fight in both the Army of Northern Virginia and the Army of Tennessee in the Eastern and Western Theaters of War. The sacrificial devotion to duty of the Texas Brigade is Borne witness to the fact that only 473 men of the approximate 5,300 who enlisted remained to lay down their arms at Appomattox Court House. Even then some, defiant to the last, broke their rifle muskets rather than surrender a usuable arm to the Federals

Scale 1:32/ 56 - 58MM