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

by H. W. Graber

Index

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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]

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Preface

The purpose of this narrative is to hand down to my children, and to present to my friends, an intimate, personal account of a life which has not been without interesting episodes, and which has been lived during the most eventful period that this Nation will, in all probability, ever know.

Though a large portion of my story will deal with incidents which occurred during the great sectional strife of the sixties, it is not intended as a history of that great calamity, but is meant, simply, to be an account of incidents with which the writer was personally associated.

The Great Strife which so nearly disrupted our country is over. For many years we of the South have been dwelling amicably with those of the North—this is as it should be. We are, united, the greatest country on the face of God’s footstool. And to both the North and the South belongs the credit.

The mistakes of certain Northern fanatics, which were not, I believe, dictated by general Northern sentiment, have long been rectified. The Government at Washington today is, I know, truly representative of the entire country. The tragic blunders which were evident in the South during what has been called the “Reconstruction Period” would not be possible today. The country has become a unit.

In perfect love and friendship for all the good people of the United States, irrespective of location, and with no sectional feeling other than an abiding love for my South, I write this story. I hope it may be found to be not without interest.

H. W. GRABER.