Texas, will be consolidated for service in that department, and will hereafter be known as the 11th infantry. The field officers will be: Alvan C. Gillem, colonel; George P. Buell, lieutenant colonel; Lyman Bissell, major. Report of Brevet Major General E. R. S. Canby. Headquarters First Military District, State of Virginia, Richmond, Va., 10 October 1869. Richmond and vicinity.—six companies of the Eleventh Infantry, Lynchburg.—Headquarters Twenty-ninth and two companies of the Eleventh Infantry. Lexington.—One company Eleventh Infantry. Warrenton.—One company Eleventh Infantry. In the month of March the Eleventh Infantry was transferred to the fourth military district. History The fifth or present Eleventh Infantry was formed by the consolidation of the 24th and 29th Regiments of Infantry on 25 April 1869. Indian Wars Department of Texas October 1869: Bryan, Texas Bvt. Major T.H. Norton 11th Inf. 1 Company Galveston, Texas Bvt. Maj. Gen. A.C. Gillem 11th Inf. 1 Company Austin, Texas 11th Inf. 1 Company Jefferson, Texas Maj. Lyman Bissell 11th Inf. 1 Company Greenville, Texas 11th Inf. 1 Company Brenham, Texas Bvt. Lt. Col. James Biddle 11th Inf. 1 Company Columbus, Texas Bvt. Maj. Charles A. Wikoff (25 April 1869 – 8 December 1886 Commanded Company E) On 5 June 1871, Company F of the Eleventh Infantry was sent to Fort Phantom Hill, a subpost of Fort Griffin, with a six-man detachment of the Fourth Cavalry, to protect the traffic through the area, and to guard the mail station at Mountain Pass, the first stop south of Phantom Hill. On 10 June 1871, a few days after its arrival at Mountain Pass, the Eleventh Infantry detachment was attacked by a war party of about seventy-five Comanches and Kiowas. A skirmish of one and a half hours ensued until the Indians broke off hostilities, with six killed and several wounded. 19 June 1871, Company H, Eleventh Infantry, with six companies of the Fourth Cavalry, and twenty Tonkawa scouts, under Colonel Ranald S. Mackenzie left Fort Richardson. 10 October 1871, Companies F and I, Eleventh Infantry, took part in the Battle of Blanco Canyon under Col. Ranald S. Mackenzie. On 10 January 1872, Company G (Captain Theodore Schwan commanding 1869–1886), Eleventh Infantry, reestablished Fort Phantom Hill. 8 February 1872, Company G was replaced by Company A of the Eleventh Infantry, along with two Tonkawa scouts and a six-man detachment of the Fourth Cavalry. On 8 March 1872, Company A at Phantom Hill