The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 64, July 1960 - April, 1961 Page: 467
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Recruiting Confederate Cavalry in Texas
ered by the Reverend W. C. Dunlap of Marshall. Then whooping
and shouting, the recruits ran to the nearest bars to celebrate.
They returned to camp much later, many of them "Half sea's
over" from a little too much celebrating.
At dawn the next morning, the men broke camp and rode into
Marshall. "Their spirited steeds," recorded an observer, made
"the streets . .. ring with their proud, defiant tread." Towns-
people turned out by the hundreds to cheer and shout at the
soldiers. At about eight o'clock, a group of ladies congregated on
the courthouse lawn and prepared to present a flag to the com-
pany. The troops moved to an empty field on the outskirts of
town, fell in at parade formation, and then, riding four abreast,
entered Marshall. At the public square they formed in a long,
straight line in front of the circle of ladies and town officials. One
of Marshall's fair young ladies then presented the flag to Captain
Richardson and made a short speech praising the heroic soldiers
and lauding the Confederate cause.
After the "trying time," or "crying time"-the parting from
relatives and friends-the men mounted, formed in columns, and
proceeded to the college, where they were presented with a
"happy surprise"-a table "groaning beneath the load" of good
things to eat, prepared by the ladies as "a parting remembrance."
Having gorged themselves, the soldiers regrouped, and midst
'shouts and whoops from the onlookers, rode out of town toward
the west.'1
To farmers and travelers along the line of march, the Rangers
must have been a strange sight. Fearing that they would be inade-
quately supplied, the men had brought with them an incredible
array of clothing and miscellaneous items. William W. Heartsill
recalled that upon his horse "Pet" there were
myself, saddle, bridle, saddle-blanket, curry comb, horse brush, coffee
pot, tin cup, 20 lbs ham, 2oo biscuit, 5 lbs ground coffee, 5 lbs sugar,
one large pound cake 6 shirts, 6 prs socks, 3 prs drawers, 2 prs
pants, 2 jackets, i pr heavy mud boots, one Colt's revolver, one small
dirk, four blankets, sixty feet of rope, with a twelve inch iron pin
attached; with all these, and divers and sundry little mementoes
from friends.
1aHeartsill, Fourteen Hundred and Ninety-One Days, 2-5, 9.467
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