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The Daily Dispatch: September 28, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 15 (search)
land. An accomplished corps of Dragoons. Speaking of Capt. Louis M. Strobel's company, the Houston (Texas) Telegraph says: The first company of Terry's regiment of Texas Rangers arrived in town on Wednesday night on their way to Virginia. Captain Strobel is a worthy officer. Though a native of South Carolina he was raised in Texas.--His education was military, and was received under the gallant Ransom, who fell in the Mexican war, at the head of his regiment while storming Chepultepec. His company numbers one hundred and four men. Every man is armed with a double-barrel shot-gun, a six-shooter and a "Texas toothpick." This last is a two-edged pointed knife, twenty-four inches long, and weighing about three pounds, and a man using it could cut another's head off and not half try. Every man in this company is more at home on horseback than any where else. We see accounts in the Richmond papers of "astonishing feats" of Texas riders, who pick up a loaded pi