Frontier Defense in Texas: 1861-1865
Description:
The Texas Ranger tradition of over twenty-five years of frontier defense influenced the methods by which Texans provided for frontier defense, 1861-1865. The elements that guarded the Texas frontier during the war combined organizational policies that characterized previous Texas military experience and held the frontier together in marked contrast to its rapid collapse at the Confederacy's end.
The first attempt to guard the Indian frontier during the Civil War was by the Texas Mounted Rifles,…
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Date:
December 1987
Creator:
Smith, David Paul, 1949-