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BIOGRAPHICAL
protect the people, regardless of cost or the consideration
of the Federal Government. As early as January.
1863, he advised many friends of his determination
not to be a candidate for re-election, preferring
to caste his lot with the army. Entering the extraordinary
conflict, he was commissioned and assigned
to duty with General McGruder, as Lieutenant
Colonel, in the Adjutant (enerals Department, and
subsequently with General Tom Green, who was killed
in Louisiana, a few days before Colonol Lubbock
reached his command. Then with General John A.
Wharton, who was assigned to the command of all the
cavalry forces in Texas, and with whom he served
until the close of the campaign of Louisiana.
In July, 1864, President Davis summoned Governor
Lubbock to Richniond, with the flattering compliment
of an appointment as onie of his aids, with the rank
'of colonel of cavalry, and setting forth the President's
desire that lie should proceed at once to the front for
consultation as to the proper condition and wants of
the Trans-Mississippi Department. Generals Wharton,
Harrison, Hardeman and others, urged the Governor
to accept the position, as they had full confidence
that he could greatly promote the interest of
the cause and benefit the department. The service
was accepted, and in a few days afterward, he was
in Richmond, and up to the timne of his capture, he
was actively engaged in such a manner as to receive
the commendations of the executive, and to this day,
of enjoying the esteem and high favor of Jefferson
Davis. ,
After Governor Lubbock's capture, lie was taken to
Fortress Monroe, and thence to Fort Delaware, near
Philadelphia, where he was kept in solitary confinement
upwards of seven months, before being released.
IHe reached Houston December 25, 1865, and in
a few days located at Harrisburg, three miles from
his former ranche, sadly crippled financially, through
the effects of the war. Subsequently the house of
F. R. Lubbock
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