Terry’s Texas Rangers
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Description
Author: Giles, L.B. (Leonidas Banton) (1841-1922)
Publisher: Pemberton Press
Pub Date: 1967 (Facsimile reprint)
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Fair. Binding tight. No tears, bends or folds. Without dust jacket, as issued. Previous owner’s name, date and locational information in ink on ffep. One small spot of wear on front board near gutter. Second page of the Introduction (not paginated) has smudge marks (fingerprints?) on upper corner. Facsimile reprint edition.
Notes: Facsimile reprint of the original 1911 edition (love that original type size). “Terry’s Texas Rangers were organized by Benjamin F. Terry, a member of the Secession Convention of Texas. It was organized as the 8th Texas Cavalry Regiment, but throughout the war and afterwards was known as Terry’s Texas Rangers or Terry’s Rangers, in spite of the fact that Terry himself was killed in the regiment’s first fight at Woodsonville (Kentucky) on December 17, 1861.” (From the Introduction). Undoubtedly leading from the front. “The Terry Rangers distinguished themselves at the battles of Shiloh (April 6–8, 1862), Perryville (October 8, 1862), Murfreesboro (December 31, 1862–January 2, 1863), Chickamauga (September 19–20, 1863), and Chattanooga (November 24–25, 1863); in the Atlanta campaign (May 1–September 2, 1864); and as raiders in Kentucky and Tennessee under Lt. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest.” (https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/eighth-texas-cavalry-terrys-texas-rangers ) The regiment fought in more than 200 battles during the Civil War, and lost more than 80% of its original membership. Basic Texas Books #75, Howes G168.
