Did You Know...

...That a Union officer who had fought against the 8th Texas Cavalry said, "The Texas Rangers are as quick as lightening. They ride like Arabs, shoot like archers at a mark, and fight like devils"?

...That nine color bearers of the 1st Texas infantry, Hood's Texas Brigade, were shot down in the cornfield at Antietam on September 17, 1862?

...That Terry’s Texas Rangers started out from Houston with over 1100 recruits in September 1861 and by November only 400 were fit for duty, the rest struck down by pneumonia and measles?

...That during the Second Battle of Manassas in August 1862, the 5th Texas Infantry, Hood’s Brigade, suffered the heaviest casualties in General Robert E. Lee’s Army—15 killed, 245 wounded and 1 missing?

...That in 1864-1865 some 6,000 Confederate prisoners accepted the “get out of jail free” offer to wear Union blue uniforms and fight Indians in the West?