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Terry's Texas Rangers
Sherman called them “the most dangerous set of men which the war turned loose upon the world.”
A captured Union officer wrote in a letter: “The Rangers are as quick as lightning. They ride like Arabs, shoot like archers at the mark, and fight like..
General A.P. Hill was killed on this day 157 years ago in Petersburg.
@a_p1llow @AGG_500 @christos_ioa Nah, this is me...a sword dripping with blood of vile Yankee invaders.
Forrest's war horse, King Phillip.
In an 1866 history of the campaigns, General Thomas Jordan wrote about King Philip: "...conspicuous iron grey gelding...sluggish on ordinary occasions, became superbly excited in battle, and was a quick to detect the presence of a blue coat..
In Honor of “Lee & Jackson Day”
"No people could live in the atmosphere of Lee and Jackson and not be the best."
- Booker T. Washington in a conversation with Virginia Congressman H. St. George Tucker
Artwork by : Mort Kunstler