The life record of H. W. Graber / A Terry Texas Ranger, 1861-1865; sixty-two years in Texas
by H. W. Graber
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Chapters (85)
- Preface
- My Earliest Recollections
- CHAPTER I
- CHAPTER II I Abandon the Printer’s Trade and Take Up Surveying.
- CHAPTER III Indian Troubles—My First Venture in Business.
- CHAPTER IV My First Military Experiences.
- CHAPTER V Our First Engagement
- CHAPTER VI An Accidental Injury—Shiloh—The “Mark-time” Major.
- CHAPTER VII I Am Wounded and Captured.
- CHAPTER VIII The Escape of Major Ousley.
- CHAPTER IX In Prison at Louisville, Where I Was Honored With Handcuffs.
- CHAPTER X. Camp Chase—Fort Delaware—I Change My Name for the First Time and Am Finally Exchanged.
- CHAPTER XI The Inhumanity of the Federal Government.
- CHAPTER XII. I Rejoin My Command.
- CHAPTER XIII. Middle Tennessee and Kentucky.
- CHAPTER XIV. Bardstown Engagement—I “Swap” Horses With a Federal.
- CHAPTER XV. The Battle of Perryville.
- CHAPTER XVI. I Refuse to Become a Teamster.
- CHAPTER XVII. Omissions in Preceding Chapters
- CHAPTER XVIII General Johnston’s Failure to Strike—Sherman
- CHAPTER XIX Georgia Service—A Negro’s Preference—A Hazardous Undertaking.
- CHAPTER XX I Sell a Ten Dollar Gold Piece for Fifteen Hundred Dollars.
- CHAPTER XXI My Service With Captain Shannon.
- CHAPTER XXII We Receive Notice of Johnston’s Surrender—I Decline to be Paroled and Resolve to Make My Way Out.
- The Reconstruction Period
- PREFACE
- CHAPTER XXIII Upon My Return From the Army I Find My Business Affairs in Bad Shape.
- CHAPTER XXIV The Affair at Hempstead.
- CHAPTER XXV I Narrowly Escape Capture.
- CHAPTER XXVI I Save the Life of an Enemy
- CHAPTER XXVII I Get Back Into the Business World.
- CHAPTER XXVIII I Assist in Establishing the Masonic Institute.
- CHAPTER XXIX I Remove to Waxahachie and Go Into Business There.
- CHAPTER XXX The Tap Railroad.
- CHAPTER XXXI Business Troubles.
- CHAPTER XXXII I Start Anew.
- CHAPTER XXXIII The Methodist School at Waxahachie.
- CHAPTER XXXIV My Later Business Experiences.
- CHAPTER XXXV The Confederate Veterans’ Home.
- CHAPTER XXXVI My Appointments in the U. C. V.
- CHAPTER XXXVII The Terry Rangers’ Flag.
- CHAPTER XXXVIII Roosevelt’s Visit to Texas
- CHAPTER XXXIX My Family.
- CHAPTER XL In Conclusion.
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