Terry Texas Ranger: The Life Record of H.W. Graber. New Introduction
Item #68751
GRABER, H[enry] W. A Terry Texas Ranger: The Life Record of H.W. Graber. New Introduction by Thomas W. Cutrer. Austin, TX: State House Press, 1987. Facsimile of 1916 ed. xxxiii,454pp. Portrait. Orig. gilt-decorated blue morocco-backed cloth, publisher's cloth slipcase. Fine. Dornbusch IV, 7553. One of 50 numbered copies. "Half the soldiers in the Army of Tennessee wanted to belong to Terry's Texas Rangers, a proud cavalry regiment, always looking for a fight. They served from the early days at Bowling Green, fall, 1861 (when Colonel Benjamin Terry was killed) until the final charge at Bentonville where Terry's men stunned and temporarily halted the advance of a veteran Federal infantry division. Graber proves a good regimental historian and his memoir...remains an important source for the Army of Tennessee" In Taller Cotton 97." .
Price: $300.00