Identifier: sponsorsouvenira00unit (find matches)
Title: Sponsor souvenir album : history & reunion (1895)
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: United Confederate Veterans
Subjects: United Confederate Veterans -- Anniversaries, etc United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Anniversaries, etc.
Publisher: (Columbus, Ohio : Terry Engraving Co., 1895.)
Contributing Library: Houston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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Genekal. Lawrence S. Ross. COMMANDING TEXAS DIVISION, I. C. V 100 SPONSOR SOUVENIR ALBUM. the Comanches with great slaughter, destroying their principal villageand stronghold, captured over four hundred horses and rescued CynthiaAnn Parker. In this memorable battle General Ross killed, in a hand-to-hand combat, the Chief Peta Nocona, having his horse shot clown underhim, but escaping without personal injury. The chiefs shield, lance,buffalo horns, etc., were sent as trophies to Governor Houston, at Austin,where they were deposited in the state archives. The incidents of thisstruggle have been related with pride by old Texas settlers and listenedto with thrilling interest by the young around many a Texas fireside, andform one of the most fascinating chapters in the history of the Lone Starstate. Entering the Confederate army as a private he rapidly rose to major,lieutenant colonel, colonel, and at the age of twenty-four was brigadiergeneral. He participated in one hundred and thirty-fi

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