GILES, L[eonidas] B[lanton].

Terry's Texas Rangers.

Item #68212

(TEXAS REGIMENTAL). GILES, L[eonidas] B[lanton]. Terry's Texas Rangers. [Austin, TX: Von Boeckmann-Jones Co., printers, 1911]. 1st ed. 105pp. Orig. cloth. Cloth speckled, faint scattered foxing to foredge, else very good. HOWES F-168, "aa." Dornbusch II, 1059. Nevins I, p.93. "Giles' short narrative is one of the best memoirs of the famous 8th Texas Cavalry Regiment, better known as Terry's Texas Rangers. The unit entered the war 1200 strong, fought and claimed victory in over 200 battles, and wound up with scarcely enough men to form a single company. H. Bailey Carroll called it 'one of the great recollections of that sterling group of Terry's Texans in the Civil War, and incidentally, has come to be one of the rarest pieces of Texana.' Dr. S.O. Young said it 'is so intensely interesting and so charmingly written that I defy anyone to take it up and lay it aside" Jenkins, Basic Texas Books 75. "As a part of Wheeler's cavalry this command harassed Sherman throughout the march to the sea and into the Carolinas" Coulter 184.

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