Thomas Saltus Lubbock Thomas ( some sources give Thompson ) Saltus Lubbock ( November 29 , 1817 – January 9 , 1862 ) was a Texas Ranger and soldier in the Confederate army during the American Civil War . Biography . Lubbock was born in Charleston , South Carolina , the brother of Governor of Texas Francis R . Lubbock . In 1835 , he moved to Louisiana and worked as a cotton factor in New Orleans . When the Texas Revolution started , he marched to Nacogdoches , Texas with Capt . William G . Cooke ' s company and participated in the siege of San Antonio de Bexar . Thereafter he took employment on a steamboat on the upper Brazos River . After working for a time with Samuel May Williams and Thomas F . McKinney , Lubbock joined the Texan Santa Fe Expedition as a lieutenant of one of the military companies . He and his men were captured in New Mexico and confined in Santiago Convent , Mexico City . Lubbock escaped by jumping from the convent ' s balcony and made his way back to Texas . After Adrián Woll seized San Antonio in 1842 , Lubbock was elected first lieutenant of Gardiner N . O . Smith ' s company and , due to Smith ' s illness , marched at the head of the company to Bexar to join in driving the Mexicans back across the Rio Grande . Lubbock and his men were among the Texans who followed Alexander Somervell back to Texas on December 19 , 1842 , after declining to join William S . Fisher on the Mier Expedition . Lubbock was married on December 14 , 1843 , to Sara Anna Smith . Lubbock was a strong secessionist , characterized as a " very worthy and zealous " Knight of the Golden Circle . At the beginning of the American Civil War he accompanied Benjamin Franklin Terry , John A . Wharton , Thomas J . Goree , and James Longstreet ( who was to become the commander of I Corps of Robert E . Lee ' s Army of Northern Virginia ) from Galveston , Texas to Richmond , Virginia . At the Confederate capital on June 22 or June 23 , 1861 , he and Terry , seconded by Senator Louis T . Wigfall , Thomas Neville Waul , Wharton , and Longstreet , petitioned Confederate President Jefferson Davis for " authority to raise a company or battalion of guerrillas . " " I must have your men , " Davis reportedly replied . While in Virginia , Lubbock , Terry , and some fifteen other Texans organized themselves into an independent band of rangers to scout for the Confederate Army . Early in July , Lubbock and Terry , at the head of a company of Virginia cavalry , charged a Union camp , captured two of the enemy , wounded a third , and captured a horse and a Sharps rifle . Only then did they realize that they were alone and that the Virginians had not followed them in their rash attack . Lubbock was still a civilian in Virginia at the time of the battle of First Bull Run ; he " exposed his life in bearing messages during the contest . " With Terry , who had also served as a volunteer aide on the battlefield , Lubbock was authorized to raise a regiment of cavalry to serve in the Confederate States Army . The two men returned to Texas and recruited the Eighth Texas Cavalry , more commonly known as " Terry ' s Texas Rangers " . Terry served as the regimental colonel and Lubbock as lieutenant colonel . In poor health , Lubbock left the regiment at Nashville , Tennessee and never returned to it . Colonel Terry was killed at the Battle of Rowlett ' s Station ( also known as the Battle of Woodsonville ) , in Kentucky on December 17 , 1861 . On January 8 , 1862 , Lubbock , then sick in bed in a Bowling Green hospital with typhoid fever , was promoted to colonel and advanced to command of the regiment . He died the next day . Thomas Saltus Lubbock is buried in Glenwood Cemetery ( Houston , Texas ) . The city of Lubbock , Texas and Lubbock County , Texas are named in his honor .