Department of Texas

First creation

• Brevet Major General Persifor Frazer Smith, 1850 to 1856.
• Colonel Albert Sidney Johnston, April 1, 1856, to May 18, 1857.
• Brevet Major General David E. Twiggs, May 18, 1857, to February 19, 1861.
• Lt. Colonel Washington Seawell, December 10, 1859, to February 6, 1860. (Temporary or Acting)
• Colonel Robert E. Lee, February 6, 1860, to December 12, 1860. (Temporary or Acting)
• Colonel Carlos A. Waite, February 19th of 1861 to April 23, 1861 when the officers of the U.S. Army's Department of Texas are all taken as prisoners-of-war at the department's headquarters in San Antonio, Texas.

Second creation

• Bvt. Major General Gordon Granger, June 19, 1865, to August 2, 1865
• Bvt. Major General Horatio G. Wright, July 20, 1865, to Aug. 18, 1866

Third creation

• Colonel Joseph J. Reynolds, April 16, 1870, to January 29, 1872

...Brigadier General Christopher C. Augur, November 1871 to March 1875

• Brigadier General Edward Ord, April 11, 1875 to December 6, 1880
• Colonel David S. Stanley, December 7, 1880, to January 3, 1881
• Brigadier General Christopher Columbus Augur, January 2, 1881 to October 31, 1883
• Brigadier General Ranald S. Mackenzie, November 1 to Dec. 19, 1883

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• Brigadier General David S. Stanley, May 8, 1884 to June 1, 1892

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• Brigadier General Zenas Bliss ?April 25, 1895? to May 22, 1897.
• Brigadier General Frederick Dent Grant, October 1902 to January 15, 1904

Fourth creation

• Brigadier General James Parker, May to August, 1917

• "Records of United States Army Continental Commands, 1821-1920".