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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 2 0 Browse Search
Col. O. M. Roberts, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 11.1, Texas (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 1 1 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 20. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 1 1 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Texas, (search)
873 Supreme Court decides that the law authorizing the election of Dec. 2, 1873, is unconstitutional......Jan. 5, 1874 New legislature organizes; not recognized by Governor Davis; old legislature meets in the basement of the capitol......Jan. 13, 1874 Old legislature adjourns......June 7, 1874 Constitution, framed by a convention which sat at Austin, Sept. 6 to Nov. 24, 1875, ratified by the people......Feb. 17, 1876 State Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas at College Station, chartered 1871, opened......1876 Armed band of Mexican outlaws enter Rio Grande City, break open the jail, release two notorious criminals, Esproneda and Garza, and escape with them to Mexico......Aug. 12, 1877 Mob of Mexicans and Texan citizens of Mexican birth attack State troops at San Elizario and six persons are killed......Dec. 13, 1877 State capitol destroyed by fire......Nov. 9, 1881 University of Texas at Austin, chartered 1881, opened......1883 Corner-stone of
Col. O. M. Roberts, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 11.1, Texas (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical. (search)
him. At the close of the war he settled in Texas. In 1873 he was sheriff of his county, and in 1875 a member of the constitutional convention. In 1881 he was elected to the State senate, where he served as chairman of the finance committee. He was elected governor of Texas in 1886, and was re-elected in 1888, by a majority of 150,000. As president of the State Agricultural and Mechanical college he rendered valuable service. Ex-Governor Ross died January 4, 1898, at his home at College Station, Tex. Brigadier-General W. R. Scurry Brigadier-General W. R. Scurry entered the Confederate army in 1861 and was commissioned lieutenantcol-onel of the Fourth Texas mounted volunteers. Early in 1862 this regiment was in the brigade of Gen. Henry H. Sibley that set out for the conquest of New Mexico. This expedition was one of the most trying of any of the campaigns of the war. The hardships endured in marching through a rocky, sterile country, in many places destitute of water or
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 20. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.4 (search)
rrenton, Virginia. W. F. Perry, Glendale, Kentucky. Roger A. Pryor, New York City. Lucius E. Polk, Ashwood, Tennessee. W. H. Parsons, Texas. N. B. Pearce, Arkansas. E. W. Pettus, Selma, Alabama. W. A. Quarles, Clarkesville, Tennessee. B. H. Robertson, Washington, D. C. F. H. Robertson, Waco, Texas. Daniel Ruggles, Fredericksburg, Virginia. George W. Rains, Augusta, Florida. D. H. Reynolds, Arkansas. William P. Roberts, Gatesville, North Carolina. L. S. Ross, College Station, Texas. Charles A. Ronald, Blacksburg, Virginia. Charles M. Shelly, Alabama. F. A. Shoup, Sewanee, Tennessee. G. M. Sorrell, Savannah, Georgia. George H. Stuart, Baltimore, Maryland. Marcellus A. Stovall, Augusta, Georgia. Edward L. Thomas, Washington, D. C. W. R. Terry, Richmond, Virginia. J. C. Tappan, Helena, Arkansas. Robert B. Vance, Asheville, North Carolina. A. J. Vaughan. Memphis, Tennessee. James A. Walker, Wytheville, Virginia. D. A. Weisiger, Richmond, Virginia.