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