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At last the opportunity came A regiment of cavalry was to be raised in western and southern Texas for service in Virginia Two Texans of wealth and leisure, B.F. Terry, a sugar planter, and Thos. S. Lubbock, a lawyer,...were at the battle of first Manassas in Virginia and rendered all the aid they could to the Southern cause. Terry acted as volunteer aid to the commanding general and Lubbock also exposed his life in bearing messages during the contest. About the middle of August commissions came to Terry and Lubbock from the war department at Richmond, Virginia, authorizing them to raise a regiment...
...this call was answered by 1170 men assembling at Houston to be enrolled in the regiment, afterwards called Terry's Texas Rangers.
Our first engagement was with McCook's corps near the Kentucky-Tennessee line when our regiment was ordered to feel of the enemy in that section to ascertain its strength and size of force. This resulted in several casualties to our men and in finding it was McCook's corps marching north to be ready for General Bragg when he should get there. S.G. Clark of our company was one of the killed here.
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