Terry's Rangers

[AndyHall]

Kate Dawson has a new Front Line blog post up about Terry's Rangers (Eighth Texas Cavalry) at the Civil War Monitor magazine:

Even before they stepped onto a battlefield southerners knew who they were, mostly because of their name not their skills. During a stop in Tennessee the ladies of Nashville, upon hearing that the Texas Rangers were setting up a temporary camp, expected a Wild West Show. The men hopped on horses and raced to see who could pick up silver coins off the ground the fastest. They were not Texas Rangers, the legendary lawmen from the rough frontier, but they were expected to uphold that image. It was a reputation they never earned but were expected to fulfill, and they did.
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http://www.civilwarmonitor.com/front-line/terrys-texas-rangers

This is closeup of the monument, via Nate:

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[Patrick H]

Sounds a lot like most of the guerrilla units in Missouri (excluding Anderson, Todd and Clements). I put that qualifier in there to avoid besmirching the Texas boys.