Letters by Lieutenant Issac Fulkerson - December 20, 1861

Fulkerson (Isaac) Papers, 1861-1862
Pearce Civil War Collection at Navarro College

Letter from Lieutenant Issac Fulkerson of the famed "Terry's Texas Rangers:"

Autograph letter signed, two pages, blue legal folio, dated December 20, 1861 by this Confederate Lieutenant with the 8th Texas Cavalry Regiment. Written in pencil to his brother Frank, from Cave City, Kentucky, Fulkerson describes the death of his commander, Colonel B.F. Terry, which caused the regiment to change its name to "Terry's Texas Rangers" in memoriam.

"...it was a brilliant little fight and would have been perfectly satisfactory to us, but for the death of Col. Terry. He was the first man killed. He was shot in three places and his horse killed at the same place...We suffered a great loss in the death of Col T. He knew not what fear was..."