Frontier Times New Account Shopping Cart Login The BEST of Texas History & Genealogy - IN A FLASH Search for Your Ancestors:SEARCH Keyword Search:SEARCH Vol 01 No. 06 – March 1924 Download An Englishmans Experience in Texas The following very interesting narrative was taken from a book entitled, With the Border Ruffians, 1852 to 1868, written by R. H. Williams, sometime lieutenant in the Kansas Rangers and afterwards a captain in the Texas Rangers. Captain Williams was an Englishman, a soldier of fortune, and his book gives many thrilling anecdotes of his experiences on the border. He .joined the Confederate service and was connected with the Partisan Rangers, was in Duffs company at the Battle on the Nueces when a large party of Germans going to .Mexico were overtaken and annihilated. The story tells of an Indian foray made while his company was stationed at Camp Verde, in Kerr county. Mentions: Colonel Robert E. Lee, as he was then, courteous, and dignified in manner, but without the slightest assumption, he was beloved by all who came within the charm of his personal influence. At this time he was about fifty-three years of age; but his dark hair was untinged with grey, and his blue eyes were bright and undimmed beneath his black eyebrows. General Gordon, General Scott, E. Lee Childe, General Twig, the K. G. C. (Knights of the Golden Circle) lodges in Eastern Texas, Colonel Ben McCulloch, an old Mormon settlement, where there were several solid stone houses and a mill. The Mormons had established themselves on the Medina at the time that the main body of their co-religionists were settled in Nauvoo; but when the general movement was made against that body in the States, these folks, like the rest of them, had to trek to Salt Lake. On the Buffalo Range in 1873. Varied accounts in the life of W. F. (Dick) Sullivan, San Saba, Texas. born in Mooreville, Mississippi, in 1854, and left there in 1868, to come to Pilot Point, in Denton County. Lived on the old Chisholm Trail, when thousands of cattle were being driven to Kansas and other northern markets…Mentions: J. T. Wilson , Bob Terrell, Brownwood, on the, Bayou, old Capt. Bill Anderson and a bunch of men from Salt Creek , Slick Clements, Ben Anderson and Lon Anderson. , Camp Colorado, Cedar Gap, in what is now Taylor county, Jim Connells company of Rangers, Government Knob, the Salt Fork of the Brazos. Mike Thompson ,Charlie Taylor, Bob Routh and Al Cheatem, George Womack of Brownwood and Dick Cheatem
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