The 29th Texas Cavalry came out of the Red River country of northeast Texas in 1862. Its colonel, Charles DeMorse, was not a professional soldier. He was the editor of the Northern Standard newspaper in Clarksville and one of the best-known newspapermen in the state. The regiment spent most of its war across the river in Indian Territory, in present-day Oklahoma, serving alongside Confederate Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, and Chickasaw units in a campaign most histories of the war never mention. The fighting there was hard, the distances long, and supplies scarce. The Texans fought mostly dismounted, and the corporals and sergeants held the small units together far from any support.

The figure kneels on one knee with his carbine held upright in his left hand, reaching back to his cartridge box with his right for the next round. The yellow cavalry chevrons on his sleeve mark him as a corporal. He wears a gray shell jacket with yellow trim, sky-blue trousers with a yellow stripe, and a gray kepi, with black cross-belts, a revolver holster on his belt, and his saber laid on the ground beside him. Complete the dismounted skirmish line with Trooper Cocking Carbine, Kneeling Trooper Firing Carbine, and Sergeant Firing Pistol.

King & Country model CW114. 1/30 scale (approximately 60mm), matte-painted metal. Single foot figure of a Confederate cavalry corporal kneeling and loading his carbine, on a sculpted groundwork base. Boxed.