The life record of H. W. Graber / A Terry Texas Ranger, 1861-1865; sixty-two years in Texas - 1

The Life Record of

H. W. Graber

A Terry Texas Ranger

1861-1865

Sixty-two Years in Texas

Index

		Page
Chapter 1	My Earliest Recollections	[9]
Chapter 2	I Abandon the Printer’s Trade and Take Up Surveying	[14]
Chapter 3	Indian Troubles—My First Venture in Business	[22]
Chapter 4	My First Military Experience	[28]
Chapter 5	Our First Engagement	[43]
Chapter 6	An Accidental Injury—Shiloh—The “Mark-Time” Major	[56]
Chapter 7	I Am Wounded and Captured	[73]
Chapter 8	The Escape of Major Ousley	[91]
Chapter 9	In Prison at Louisville, Where I Was Honored With Handcuffs	[98]
Chapter 10	Camp Chase—Fort Delaware—I Change My Name for the First Time and Am Finally Exchanged	[107]
Chapter 11	The Inhumanity of the Federal Government	[136]
Chapter 12	I Rejoin My Command	[142]
Chapter 13	Middle Tennessee and Kentucky	[144]
Chapter 14	I “Swap” Horses With a Federal	[156]
Chapter 15	The Battle of Perryville	[169]
Chapter 16	I Refuse to Become a Teamster	[176]
Chapter 17	Omissions in Preceding Chapters	[186]
Chapter 18	General Johnston’s Failure to Strike—Sherman	[190]
Chapter 19	Georgia Service—A Negro’s Preference—A Hazardous Undertaking	[208]
Chapter 20	I Sell a Ten Dollar Gold Piece for Fifteen Hundred Dollars	[231]
Chapter 21	My Service With Captain Shannon	[237]
Chapter 22	We Receive Notice of Johnston’s Surrender—I Decline to Be Paroled and Resolve to Make My Way Out	[244]
Preface	The Reconstruction Period	[262]
Chapter 23	Upon My Return From the Army I Find My Business Affairs in Bad Shape	[266]
Chapter 24	The Affair at Hempstead	[271]
Chapter 25	I Narrowly Escape Capture	[285]
Chapter 26	I Save the Life of an Enemy	[306]
Chapter 27	I Get Back Into the Business World	[316]
Chapter 28	I Assist in Establishing the Masonic Institute	[326]
Chapter 29	I Remove to Waxahachie and Go Into Business There	[339]
Chapter 30	The Tap Railroad	[344]
Chapter 31	Business Troubles	[366]
Chapter 32	I Start Anew	[373]
Chapter 33	The Methodist School at Waxahachie	[377]
Chapter 34	My Later Business Experiences	[380]
Chapter 35	The Confederate Veterans’ Home	[389]
Chapter 36	My Appointments in the U. C. V.	[395]
Chapter 37	The Terry Rangers’ Flag	[401]
Chapter 38	Roosevelt’s Visit to Texas	[424]
Chapter 39	My family	[434]
Chapter 40	In Conclusion	[441]