Front matter
Reading edition
The Life Record of
H. W. Graber
A Terry Texas Ranger
1861-1865
Sixty-two Years in Texas
Copyright 1916 by H. W. Graber
Index
Page
Chapter 1My Earliest Recollections9
Chapter 2I Abandon the Printer’s Trade and Take Up Surveying14
Chapter 3Indian Troubles—My First Venture in Business22
Chapter 4My First Military Experience28
Chapter 5Our First Engagement43
Chapter 6An Accidental Injury—Shiloh—The “Mark-Time” Major56
Chapter 7I Am Wounded and Captured73
Chapter 8The Escape of Major Ousley91
Chapter 9In Prison at Louisville, Where I Was Honored With Handcuffs98
Chapter 10Camp Chase—Fort Delaware—I Change My Name for the First Time and Am Finally Exchanged107
Chapter 11The Inhumanity of the Federal Government136
Chapter 12I Rejoin My Command142
Chapter 13Middle Tennessee and Kentucky144
Chapter 14I “Swap” Horses With a Federal156
Chapter 15The Battle of Perryville169
Chapter 16I Refuse to Become a Teamster176
Chapter 17Omissions in Preceding Chapters186
Chapter 18General Johnston’s Failure to Strike—Sherman190
Chapter 19Georgia Service—A Negro’s Preference—A Hazardous Undertaking208
Chapter 20I Sell a Ten Dollar Gold Piece for Fifteen Hundred Dollars231
Chapter 21My Service With Captain Shannon237
Chapter 22We Receive Notice of Johnston’s Surrender—I Decline to Be Paroled and Resolve to Make My Way Out244
PrefaceThe Reconstruction Period262
Chapter 23Upon My Return From the Army I Find My Business Affairs in Bad Shape266
Chapter 24The Affair at Hempstead271
Chapter 25I Narrowly Escape Capture285
Chapter 26I Save the Life of an Enemy306
Chapter 27I Get Back Into the Business World316
Chapter 28I Assist in Establishing the Masonic Institute326
Chapter 29I Remove to Waxahachie and Go Into Business There339
Chapter 30The Tap Railroad344
Chapter 31Business Troubles366
Chapter 32I Start Anew373
Chapter 33The Methodist School at Waxahachie377
Chapter 34My Later Business Experiences380
Chapter 35The Confederate Veterans’ Home389
Chapter 36My Appointments in the U. C. V.395
Chapter 37The Terry Rangers’ Flag401
Chapter 38Roosevelt’s Visit to Texas424
Chapter 39My family434
Chapter 40In Conclusion441