Thus closes my notes for the month of December and also for the year just passed and gone and now numbered with the things that were. Whether the Almighty will spare me to chronicle the daily events of the incoming year is more than I know but trusting in Him I shall enter upon the pleasing task, which is useful as a reference and may be profitable to those who have an interest in me.
Saturday, December 17, 2011
Tuesday, December 17th, 1861
To day the steamer Ruthven left for Galveston. I am engaged in tacking upon canvass on my new house, which is progressing slowly. weather clear and very warm for the season of the year.
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150 years ago today . . . on the 17th day of December in 1861 . . . Benjamin Franklin (Frank) Terry was killed near Woodsonville, Kentucky, in the first Civil War battle fought by Terry's Texas Rangers (which ended in a Confederate victory). Terry was organizer and first commander of the Eighth Texas Cavalry (Terry's Texas Rangers). His body was sent by train to Nashville, Tennessee, where the legislature adjourned and joined in a procession escorting the remains to be held in state at the Tennessee Capitol. The body lay in state in New Orleans and then Houston, where the funeral procession was described as "the most imposing ever seen in this state." Governor Lubbock lauded Terry in the state Senate: "no braver man ever lived-no truer patriot ever died." Terry County was later named in his honor. J.M. Hall mentions Terry's final journey home in the Journal on the 28th day of December. [Terry's findagrave memorial page]
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