From the Application for Official Texas Historical Marker for Bayland Guards.
On April 27, 1861, a Harris County group from Baytown and Cedar Bayou and others from Barbers Hill in western Chambers County organized as the Bayland Guards. Fifty-year-old Dr. Ashbel Smith trained and outfitted them at his Evergreen Plantation.
Sam Houston's son, Sam, Jr. was a member as were Samuel E. Jones and Charles Elliott Jones, sons of Anson Jones, the last President of the Republic of Texas.
The company and regiment arrived at Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee on April 3, 1861, and soon afterwards took part in the Battle of Shiloh, where the Bayland Guards led the Confederate advance into a Union camp with two other companies. Half of Company C were killed or wounded in the assault.
--Old Secesh
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