Terry's Texas Rangers

L. B. GILES

Publication: Von Boeckman-Jones Co, 1911, Austin

First edition in brown cloth with upper board stamped in gilt. 8 vo. 105 pp. Contents. Introduction. A firsthand memoir/history of the famous 8th Texas Cavalry Regiment under Colonel Franklin Terry of the Confederate States Army during the Civil War. It offers recollections of camp life, officers, marching, battles, disease, and the experiences of ordinary Texas cavalrymen. The regiment fought in several western and western-theater campaigns to include Shiloh, the Kentucky campaign, Chickamauga, Chattanooga, and the Atlanta campaign. Giles was wounded in the Battle of Rowlett's Station, the same engagement in which Terry was killed. 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." 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. Very scarce and an important piece of Texana. Boards bumped and worn at corners; professionally re-backed with brown cloth. Former owner's bookplate on front pastedown, endpaper stained and with a couple instances of unobtrusive underlining in the text. Housed in custom brown cloth slipcase. Very good.