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sixteen years old. He fought throughout the Texas revolution, and later became an intrepid Indian fighter, serving for many campaigns, as an cfficer under Colonel John H. Moore, in defence of the Texan frontiers. Afterwards he was an officer in the Santa Fe Expedition under General Hugh McLeod. When the Civil War broke out he went with his intimate friend B. F. Terry (familiarly called "Captain Frank") to Virginia in time to participate in the first battle of Manassas. At the earnest solici- tation of President Jefferson Davis, Lubbock and Terry returned to Texas to raise a regiment of cavalry. This Eighth Texas Cavalry, known as the Terry Rangers, was organized at Houston with B. F. Terry as colonel and Thomas S. Lubbock as lieutenant colonel. It was ordered to Ken- tucky, where it was well mounted and equipped, and throughout the Con- federacy it became the pride of all the fighting men. After the untimely death of Terry at the battle of Woodsonville, Kentucky, Lubbock became the colonel of the regiment; but he, too, was doomed to an early death. After a painful illness of several weeks, he died at Nashville, Tennessee, January 9, 1862. See Texas State Gazette, January 25, 1862; Francis R. Lubbock, Six Decades in Texas, especially pp. 13, 26, 28-29, 146, 314-326, 377, 645-646; also see The Muster Roll Book, General Land Office of Texas.
To BARRY GrLLESPIE 1
Private
City of Houston, Texas, May 22, 1842. ·
To Col. B. Gillespie Sir,
I cannot permit the next packet to New Orleans to de- part without repeating to you, in the most positive and emphatic manner the instructions which you have heretofore received. It is required that you strictly cohere to them in all respects. The most disastrous and deplorable consequences will inevitably flow from your yielding to the wishes and representations of men who are anxious to emigrate without the requisite prepara- tions. Starvation will beget insubordination; and the ruin of our country will be the wretched sequel. For God's sake and your country's good, see, then, that ever-y man that departs for Texas with any designs to participate in ou1· struggle, is well sup- plied with six months' provisions, good clothing, and 1nUitary equipm,ent necessary /01· the cam,pa-ign, and see, moreove1·, that none land at Galveston under any circumstances. In addition to various other reasons for this injunction, the fact that water has given out at that point may be named. Your attention to those things is most earnestly invited and their observance enjoined by every obligation imposed by your official station.
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