The Republican journal., 1916-04-27

this is the only case OF the sort on rec
ord, and l was only an unknown Texas
boy at the time.
''The young girl was sent to my home
in Texas and afterwards adopted her,
calling her Lizzie after Miss Lizzie Tins
ley, who became my wife,
After this campaign young Ross re-
turned to college at Flore nee, Ala. y,
where he was graduated with honors a
year later. He then returned to Waco
and on application to Gov. Sam Houston
received a commission to enroll sixty
rangers and give what relief he could to
the settlers harassed by the Comanches.
He established a post at what later be-
came Fort Belknap and entered upon a
campaign that lasted until the Indians
were compelled to sue for peace. In
1861 Ross joined the Confederate army
as private and in 1862 had been pro-
NOTED to brigadier general, and was
the youngest in the service when ap-
pointed. He was in 1875 engagements
and had seven horses shot under him,
but was never wounded. Before being
elected Governor Of Texas he was sheriff
of Mcclellan county and was also dele
gate to the Constitutional convention
and member of the Texas State Sem
ate.
There were other noted Indian fighters
and among the most prominent "Big
Foot Wallace, also of Waco. Where
the city of Waco now stands was the
principal village of the Waco tribe of
Indians.
The headquarters of the troops in Tex
as were in San Antonio, and Gen. David
E. TWiggs, native of Georgia, was in
command. He had served in the war Of
1912, in the Black Hawk war, and in the
Mexican war, and for gallantry and mer-
ltorious conduct in the latter war was
pr omoted to brigader general and after
its close was given command of the De-
partment of the West, with headquar-
tiers at St. Louis. In 1857 he was given
command of the Department of Texas
with headquarters at San Antonio. Like
most of the old army officers he was
good deal of a martinez and very fluent
in the use of language more forceful
than polite. One day there arrived in
San Antonio young man from Tennes-
see who had been appointed lieutenant
in the army from civil life. He was
tall, lank, wore blue coat with brass
buttons, tight trousers that looked as if
they had shrunk in the wash, and
broad brimmed felt hat. Walking un-
announced into Gen. Twiggs office he
dropped into chair, threw one leg over
an arm of the chair, and thus addressed
the commanding officer: General,
where'I | get a swoard?" "Sword!
sword blankety blank, blank! you don't
need sword. Go out in the woods and
cut stick" What followed was not
l do not recall what troops were in
Texas at this time, outside Of the End
Cavalry, but there were companies of
Infantry at some of the frontier posts,
and, think, artillery on the lower Rio
Grande. The End Cavalry was crack
regiment then, and became famous later
for the many distinguished officers it had
in the Civil war, mainly on the Confed-
crate side. 1t was known as the jeff
Davis regiment, as it was raised when
Jefferson Davis was Secretary of War,
under an act of Congress in 1856 author
izing the raising of two cavalry regi-
ments. The Colonel was Albert Sidney
Johnson, but in 1857 he was made brig
a der general and given command of the
first division of the Utah army, which left
Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, late in the
fall OF that year to put down the Nor
mon rebellion. His command was snow
ed up in the Rocky mountains and suf-
fered many privatlons, subsistlng for a
time on mule meat.
In the absence of Col. johnson the
command of the End cavalry devolved
upon Lieutenant Colonel Robert E. Lee,
whose headquarters were in San Anton
10. Col. Lee, who had been in the Topo-
graphical Engineers, after serving with
distinction in the Mexican war returned
to his former duty, in which he continu
ed until appointed aforementioned of
the End cavalry. The senior major was
William J. Hardee, the junior major
George H. Thomas, the senior captain,
Carl Van Dorm, the next ranking captain
E. Kirby Smith; lieutenants, John B.
Hood, Cosby, Major, Fitzhugh Lee,
Johnson, Jenifer, Palmer and Stoneman,
all of whom became general officers la ter
on the Southern side with the exception
of Thomas and the three last named,
who became general officers in the Fed
eral army.